Fireplace at the Miner's House - Ethnological Collection, 2007
The Miner's House and its ethnological collection in Idrija shows the household and living conditions of miners and their families in the past. Men in Idrija worked almost exclusively as miners in the Idrija Mercury Mine; women were housewives, taking care of the children and trying to earn additional money with various domestic jobs, typically from knitting and making Idrija bobbin-lace. Most families could not afford to have their own house but were usually tenants in private homes and, after 1870, resided in apartment blocks called prhauzi.
The Miner's House was built at the end of the 18th century and has preserved the main features of typical Idrija architecture. After undergoing extensive renovation in the 1990s, the house is today protected as a cultural monument and administered by the Idrija Municipal Museum. The furniture and tools of the household date back to the first half of the 20th century.
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Collection of 15 cars used by the President of Yugoslavia, Marshall Tito, exhibited at Technical Museum of Slovenia
Founded in 1951, the Technical Museum of Slovenia (TMS) aims to to research, collect and exhibit Slovenia's technical heritage, as well as to protect the historically important technical buildings, installations and machines. Its collections (historically) elaborate on various topics such as cars, bicycles and other vehicles; the sawing, woodworking, textile and milling industries; printing and bookmaking; telecommunications services; and so on.
Aside from its core premises and collections, the museum also manages various satellites, including the Bogenšperk Castle, the Pantz Forester's Gravity Cableway, the Museum of Post and Telecommunications, and the Soteska Depot of Vehicles. In 2017 the Open Depot exhibition of the three national museums opened in the Park of Military History Pivka.
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