Category: Museums, collections and memorial room

Almost all of the material legacy of Marjan Kozina is kept in the archives of the Museum of Dolenjska (Lower Carniola).  Apart from sheet music inscribed with dedications, the collection contains other artworks associated with Kozina and his creative work, as well as the composer’s piano. An extensive archive of the Kozina and Kovač families

With around 60,000 items, the Music and Film Collection of University Library Maribor (ULM) is the largest collection of its kind in north-east Slovenia. Apart from the Music Collection of the National and University Library in Ljubljana, it is the only deposit library in Slovenia to compile a compulsory copy of, and permanently archive, the

The music-score archive of the Slovenian Philharmonic holds over 2000 first editions, rare sheet-music specimens of classicistic and romantic works, as well as manuscript copies of symphonies, serenades, concertos, chamber music and operas. Especially noteworthy among the collection’s special items are original sheet-music editions dating to the era of the Philharmonic Society – the forerunner

The Josipina Turnograjska memorial room at Turn Castle is located in the chamber designated for Saturday mass by the residents of the retirement home, which has been established in the Castle for decades. The room contains two display cases and a replica of Josipina’s writing desk. Almost no artefacts have survived, having been either confiscated

The cultural-historical collection of the Pomurje Museum contains some musical instruments, mostly brass instruments, a cimbalom (dulcimer), a piano and a violin. Currently, only the walnut wood piano made by piano manufacturer J. B. Streicher & Sohn in 1869 is on view as part of the Pomurje Museum permanent exhibition. The piano was donated to

Maribor Regional Museum Instrument Collection The collection of musical instruments of the Regional Museum Maribor consists of 79 exhibits. As well as musical instruments (43 items), the collection includes two gramophones, a late nineteenth-century Ariston organette music machine with thirty accompanying perforated music disks, a part of a music automaton, a violin box and a

Three years ago, the Vinoteka Otilija wineshop was opened at the Selak Homestead in Šentjernej. In 2016, a display of musical instruments was put on view here, a permanent collection of musical instruments entrusted to Janez Selak by the first conductor of the Šentjernej Wind Band, Mladen Škrbič, who was also a teacher of wind

The Domžale Concert Band is the oldest provincial concert band in the former Carniola which is still active; the history of the Band can be traced back to 1884 when the first ensemble of firemen-musicians was organised. It also boasts the oldest Slovenian concert-band venue (Domžale Brass Band Community Centre), which was formally inaugurated in

The Slovenian Ethnographic Museum (SEM) is a portal of knowledge facilitating dialogue with the musical cultural heritage of Slovenian ethnic territory and Slovenian diaspora. As a repository of information about traditional and contemporary culture in Slovenia, the Museum houses and displays musical artefacts and exhibits, including some of the oldest specimens in Europe, which have

Founded in 1951, the Bela Krajina Museum is located in Metlika Castle on the River Kolpa, the natural border between Slovenia and Croatia. The Museum houses a permanent collection of the cultural heritage of the Slovenian region of Bela krajina (White Carniola), which apart from historical and ethnographic artefacts includes some important musical exhibits chronicling