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Celje Museum of Recent History was established in 1951 as a department for the History of the National Liberation War at Celje Municipal Museum. In year 1963 it became an independent cultural institution and moved into premises of former town hall of Celje (1830–1963) where is still situated today. As public museum it focuses on research, protection, documentation and presentation of movable cultural heritage of town Celje and Lower Savinjska region from the beginning of the 20th century until present times. Museums permanent exhibition called Living in Celje opened in a year 2000. It features the Diary of three generations on the first floor, how each generation lived in Celje in the course of the 20th century. On a second floor there is a reconstruction of Celjska Street as it looked in a period between World Wars. Visitors can walk through various trade shops, the market and a middle-class apartment. This exhibition was renovated and reopened in December 2009. Museum has also permanent exhibition of Dentistry Collection that was donated to the museum by private collector Dr. Franc Štolf (1993). It started first Slovenian children's museum called ''Herman's Den'' (1995) with playroom, gallery and theatre. On invitation of Japanese Hamada Children's Museum of Art, ''Herman's Den'' was presented in Japan in year 2009. Celje Museum of Recent History administers also two museum branches. Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Celje, with a beautiful glass parlour and all original equipment, from the end of the 19th and early 20th century. The other is Anti-Nazi memorial site Stari Pisker Prison. Name given by the locals is Old Pot. This used to be Minorite monastery, where during II. World War Nazis tortured and executed several hundred people. Program of the museum presents also temporary, art and historical exhibitions.

Collections

Celje Museum of Recent History has 17. main collections. Starting with most general historical collection of items from 18th, 19th and 20th century, it has also very specialised ones as: trade, goldsmith trade, collection of postcards, money, EMO kitchenware, arms, decorations and medals, collection of scales, posters, farewell letters, children toys and crafts. Museum also has photo and video archive, that can be viewed and studied by appointment. Especially worth to mention is Fund of Alma Karlin. It consists of 850 objects, books, drawings, sketches, photographic material and testimonies about amazing woman, world traveller, writer and anthropologist from Celje, Alma Maksimiljana Karlin (1889-1950) and her close companion Theja Schreiber Gamelin. In memory of Alma's 120 year birth anniversary Celje Museum of Recent History published anthology Alma's Boundaries and Margins (2009).

Education and international cooperation

Museum puts a great effort on international educational program called School of Museology in collaboration with Museumsakademie Joanneum Graz, and Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam. In October 2009 museum hosted international museum workshop with the topic New Trends in Museology with dr. Peter van Mensch and Léontine Meijer van Mensch from Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam. Every year they organise also Summer School of Museology intended for students of humanistic studies and those that want to become museum curators. It takes place on the Slovenian coast in historical town of Piran at the Institute of Mediterranean Heritage. This year's topic was Museums and Tourism. In year 2008 lecturer was Xerxes Mazda Head of Learning and Audiences at British Museum, London.

Celje Museum of Recent History is member of ICOM. With Museum of Europe in Brussels they collaborated in exhibition The European: His Story. Celje Museum is also partner in a european project Museum Sign Language Guide, education and museum guidance for people with hearing disabilities.

Gallery

One of a collection of moving farewell letter's from WWII prisoners of war who had learned they would be executed, Stari Pisker Prison, known as The old pot, Celje Museum of Recent History, 1942

A memorial room in Stari Pisker Prison which was a site of WWII atrocities and established as a war memorial in 1965, Celje Museum of Recent History

Permanent exhibition Living in Celje follows the chronological history of Celje into the 20th century, Celje Museum of Recent History

the second floor of the permanent exhibition Living in Celje shows historical recreations of streets artisans craft shops, market and the middle-class housing, Celje Museum of Recent History

Workshop Viewing identities, Celje Museum of Recent History 2007

The old pot, Stari Pisker Prison, was a Minorite monastery until the 19th century when it became a prison, used by German forces in WWII, established as a war memorial in 1965, administered by Celje Museum of Recent History

Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, preserved studio the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885 - 1977), established as a museum in 1989, Celje. The museum display presents a special collection containing historic photographic equipment

Children's museum in Celje Museum of Recent History, established in 1995, currently the only such specialised museum for children in Slovenia

Alma vox populi exhibition, Celje Museum of Recent History, 2008

Celje Museum of Recent History building in Prešernova street, Celje

Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, the studio is preserved luxurious glass photographic atelier with original equipment used by the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885–1977), established as a museum in 1989, Celje

Alma Karlin's embroidery from the Celje Museum of Recent History collection

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