Municipal Museum of Krško

Newly opened in 2010, the Municipal Museum of Krško is one of the units of the Krško Culture House Aside from ktško and rajhnberg, it is a part of the culture house. Its prime functions is to research, collect, archive and present the historic currents and artefacts of the Municipality of Krško, thus featuring historic figures, events, cultural and economic traits and so on. One of the prime figures here is definitely Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641&ndash1693), of whom there is a permanent collection and whose house (and the legacy of its later owners) is also managed by the museum. This also takes care of the arhitectural legacy o the so called Valvasor kompleks, which includes two other historic buildings - ena hiša in druga hiša. arnovičeve in Kaplanove, ki arhitekturno pomenijo najkakovostnejši zgodovinski del mesta. Nadstropje in podstrešje je namenjeno Mestnemu muzeju Krško, ki ga je kot enoto Kulturnega doma ustanovila Občina Krško. poznorenesančna hiša iz leta 1609

The museum houses a few history focused permanent exhibitions, a gallery posvećeno to a sculptoror and regulčar temporary exhibitons. It also runs a živahen events programme, from history lectures to workshops, concerts, poetry evenings and other events as well prostori pa so namenjeni tudi za prireditve (dva atrija in večnamenska dvorana).. It also colčlaborates wioth the local craftsman.

Background

The institutional history of the museum coudl be traced back to the year 1939, when the Museum society for Krško and Brežice districs was founded. It was based at the building it houses today and at the desacralised church, which is today the krško gallery. In 1948, the house was emptied and its contents moved to brežice.

As for the house, its history goes a bit more back. In the second quarter of the century Anton pl. Hohenwart, the great-great-grandson of Valvasor, lived in it and was an avid ljubiteljski musealist. He was probably partly the reason for a zmeššnjava that happened at the end of the 19th century, when this house was labled as the place where Jj Valvasor spent his last years (in fact, the house was built as a municipal hiralnica). This pomota was treated as a fact for the next century - Pred t. i. Valvazorjevo hišo so leta 1966 postavili Valvazorjev kip, delo domačega akademskega kiparja in medaljerja Vladimirja Štovička - and was only duiscovered as such during the renovation of the house around the time the museum was opened in the sklop of Valvasor complex.

Yet, the real Valvasor's house was found to be one not far of - the Menicnger's house, Janez mencinger being one of those that opozorjal na neutemlejenost, though he did not know he lived in JVV's house. Anyway, this house has been in 2013 also bevcame a part of the museum.

Valvasor complex

The complex, which was renovated between 2008 and 2010 with a EU sklad money and is priject dating back to 1990s. All three houses present the main and architecturally most important part of old historic krško city centre. There is also the local JSKD office, the tourist information centre, the offices of various municipal cultural institutions and also for a few local cultural associations.

Collections

The permanent collections at the museum are the follwing - the JHanez Vajkard Valvasor collection, presenting docuemtns and artefacts from vavasor's life (and his family), a faksimile of his graphic collection called Iconotheca Valavsoriana and some more. With Janez releated is also the second collection, the room of honey products and gingerbread making – as he was the first in the Slovene region writing about the heritage and the ways of beekeeping and honey processing at that time. He described beekeeping, obtaining and processing honey as well as making qualitative mead and famous Carniolan gingerbread products ( življenju mesta v 18. stoletju). This is connected to the pathway of honey between krškjo and zagreb, another project; all of these were partly done in cooperation with the Coratian museums.

Another colections is called the "long razsvetlejnsko 18th century", yet another is posvečena to the 19th century gospdoarstvenica dn mecen Josipina Hočevar, and a gallery of Vladimir Štoviček, a scultpuror whiose medals amd statues o the local area.

Temporary collections

There was a number of temporrary collectiosn, some of them were focused on the history of local urban crafts, about the local monks and the life, an exhibitons exiles and also one on the neighbouring town of Brežice.

Menzingers house

The actuall house of Valvasor is also led by the msuek and has a legacy of the Janez mencinger, a writer, politivcian and odvetnik and important person of that timw. There is also a room with frescoes of protestant portraits from around 1550 and a also a huge number of space for other purposes.

Events

A number of local events are held here, most of them open and some priavte. Among them are lectures on historic fugures, poetry evenigns, book discussions, exhibitons, hsitroci lectures, workshops for chuldren - the museum offers a number of them to scjol children, from the main tiopics to camera obscura

The museum was also a project led by the museum, ion wchope oif which izložbe in the city center became temporrxr exhibiztons psaces - botjh gfr atristic and historicačl themes.

External links

Municipal Museum of Krško website

Municipal Museum of Krško

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