Mengeš Museum

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Muzej Mengeš

Trdinov trg 10, SI-1234 Mengeš

http://www.muzej-menges.si

info@muzej-menges.si

Phone386 (0) 1 729 1003

Managed byFranc Jelovšek Cultural Association, Mengeš Municipality

Mengeš Museum was founded in 1998 with an aim to collect, document, conserve, restore and exhibit local cultural heritage. It engages also in research and publishing. Museum collections comprise: a geology collection, a paleontology collection, a natural science collection, several historical periods collections and biographical collections. In 2001 the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Kranj authorized the Mengeš Museum to supervise machine excavation for the municipal infrastructure on Maistrova and Zadružniška streets in Mengeš since inhabitants had found some archeological remains. Only a few articles found their way to the Kamnik Intermunicipal Museum, which formerly had jurisdiction over this area. A total of 16 graves were excavated by December 2001: four inhumation and 12 cremations. One grave is attributed to the period after 600 AD, the stag tine characterizing it as the grave of an Avar soldier. The other three inhumation graves are presumably also from the same period