Celje Museum of Recent History

Introduction

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 townhall 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 Celjeopened in a year 2000 features the Diary of three generations How people 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. Museum has also permanent exhibition of Dentistry Collection that was donated to the museum by private collector Dr. Franc Štolf (1993) and first Slovenian children's museum called ''Herman's Den'' (1995) also 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. Second branch is Anti-Nazi memorial site Stari Pisker Prison, Celje. Name was given by the locals as 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 wieved 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.

Cooperation

Celje Museum of Recent History is member of ICOM.

Education

Museum puts a great effort on international educational program called School of Museology Celje 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 on the Slovenian coast in historical town of Piran. This year's topic was Museums and Turism.

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Contents

Introduction

Collections

Cooperation

Education

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