Tomaž Godec Museum

Tomaž Godec Museum was founded in 1979 within the former home of athlete, mountaineer and progressive politician Tomaž Godec, a vigorous champion of tourism development in Bohinj who was executed during the Second World War; Gorenjska Museum, Kranj took over the management of the collections in 1997.

One of the collections is dedicated to the life and work of of Tomaž Godec himself, while another focuses on a major historical event which took place at the house in 1939 - the drawing up of the constitution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Another collection is dedicated to the Soča and Alpine Fronts 1915-1917, illustrating the two First World War front lines which ran through the area. Exhibits include over 1,100 objects and documents which in a unique way portray the strategic course of the battles and the hardships of the soldiers who participated in them.

The archaeological collection shows how Bohinj was settled from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, with special emphasis on the production of iron. The intensive settlement of Bohinj and its cultural and economic development indeed corresponds with the discovery of the use of iron as early as the 8th century BCE.

Under the auspices of the Technical Museum of Slovenia, a tannery owned and run by Tomaž Godec prior to the Second World War has been reconstructed in the museum grounds. Today it is the only tannery museum in Slovenia which illustrates traditional methods of tanning.

The museum also organises occasional exhibitions.

Tomaž Godec Museum

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