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== Collections == | == Collections == | ||
− | Museum collections comprise: a geology collection, a paleontology collection, a natural science collection, several historical periods collections, biographical collections and collections of activities. | + | Museum collections comprise: a geology collection, a paleontology collection, a natural science collection, several historical periods collections, biographical collections, and collections of activities. |
== Exhibitions == | == Exhibitions == |
Revision as of 15:35, 29 March 2010
Collections
Museum collections comprise: a geology collection, a paleontology collection, a natural science collection, several historical periods collections, biographical collections, and collections of activities.
Exhibitions
It manages two temporary exhibition places: Galerija mežnarija and Galerija klet. Some previous exhibitions are: The Oldest Slovenian Beer and its Story about Julij Stare Brewery from the 19th century in Mengeš and others Slovene oldest breweries (2008); archaeological exhibition Avar? on excavation in Mengeš (2002); historical exhibition Settlements Images of Mengeš and Surrounding (1999). Exhibitions of art works created at Jelovšek Art Meeting are regularly on display as well as of different artists like Lojze Perko, Nataša Prestor, and Miki Muster.
Projects
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