Muzej novejše zgodovine Celje
Prešernova 17, SI-3000 Celje
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ProprietorCelje Urban Municipality
Celje Museum of Recent History
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Past Events
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15 Sep 2023
23 Nov 2023
Exhibition "Alma Maksimilijana Karlin - Authoress", showcasing the writer's life and work. In the scope of Slovenia – Guest of Honour Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 and made possible by Municipality of Celje, Slovenian Book Agency, Celje Regional Museum, Celje Museum of Recent History and Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
at the Frankfurt Book Fair
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7 Aug 2015
30 Sep 2015
An exhibition of the works of photographer Josip Pelikan from the collection of the Celje Museum of Recent History
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1 Mar 2011
30 Apr 2011
Introduction
{{Teaser| 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 exhibitionn 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 called by the locals Old Pot Stari Pisker Prison, Celje. This used to be Minorite monastery where during II. World War Nazis tortured and executed several hundred people. There are many temporary exhibitions on schedule every year.
Collections
Important collection 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.
and numerous collections of general history, children toys and creativity, trading, numizmatics, Celje goldsmith history, dentistry, arms and decorations, video and photo library consisting of photo plates and negatives some dating as far as the end of 19th century.
Fund of Alma Karlin(1889-1950) world traveller, writer and anthropologist from Celje that consists of drawings, sketches, photographic material, corespondence and testimonies about her.
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.
See also
External links
- Collection of museum items
- School of Museology
- [http://www.burger.si/MuzejiInGalerije/MuzejNovejseZgodovineCelje/ZivetiVCelju/360ZivetiVCelju_Stopnisce.html Panorama wiew of Living in Celje exhibition
- Fund of Alma Karlin
- Alma Maksimiljana Karlin
- Museumsakademie Joanneum Graz
- Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam
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