Pleterje Charterhouse Open Air Museum

The Open Air Museum at Pleterje Monastery is part of a long-term national project to establish a 'Network of Regional Open-air Museums' with a view to protecting the ethnological and architectural heritage. Village with wooden houses and roofs covered with hay represent together with farm outhouses, barns, haystacs, racks, farm tools, wells, etc., culture of living in villages under Gorjanci hills in south of Slovenia at the end of 19th century. Types of farm facilities are connected to farm occupations as vine growing, cattle, pig raising, hen dens, domestic crafts, cooking... Occasional presentations of farming customs and crafts are organised there.

The earliest attempt to present Open Air Museum as buildings belonging to the region's architectural heritage in the forecourt of the Pleterje Carthusian Monastery was made in 1984. In that year the renovation of the old Gothic church was finished and it was opened to the general public. However, because of the increased numbers of visitors and also to preserve the monastery's peace and quiet, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Novo Mesto and the Pleterje Monastery wanted to find a special location for a range of buildings which would represent a typical 19th century farmhouse of the Šentjernej plain.

In 1990-1991 the Kegljevič farmhouse of 1833 was moved from the village of Ostroge to an area near the monastery. In 1992 it was joined by the Banič House from the village of Mihovo, part of which had to be reconstructed, in 1996 by a double hay-rack with two pairs of windows, and in 1998 by the Simoščev pigsty from the village of Javorovica. The last building to be moved here was the Dobrovoljč pod, a wooden building used for threshing and as a hay-loft.

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Šentjernej Municipiality webpage on Open Air Museum

Pleterje Charterhouse Open Air Museum

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