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Medobčinski muzej Kamnik
Museum stories
Commercial scale Gama, 1950-1960
In 1933, the Kamnik factory Titan began to manufacture fittings, poppy grinders, meat slicers, crushers, brass weights, furniture locks and also the first kitchen and commercial scales. The scales were also made during World War II, when they were owned by a company from Villach, Austria. The ...
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Bronze statue, 1st century, Sidol
The Mejač family found the statue in 1899 in a well in Sidol. It lay about a meter deep. It was part of Sadnikar's collection and in 1964 it was bought by the Kamnik Museum. The statue dates from the 1st century A. D. It could be an inventory of a house altar, perhaps a votive. Such objects ...
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Stone urn with a lid, 2nd century A. D., Mengeš
In 1979 Janez Šuštaršič found a stone urn, which was covered by a plate. The grave was found on the south eastern corner of the house on Ulica Mengeške skupine (now Slomškova ulica 13) on the parcel 568/2 in Mengeš. In the grave were two balsamariums, a ribbed glass bowl and an iron knife. ...
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Bell, bronze, first half of 1st century A. D., Sušave-Pasje peči
The bell was given to the museum by the finder in 2016 for the exhibition Na planincah luštno biti … and later for permanent preservation. Mr. Danijel Holcar’s words about the finding were: “When I was 8 years old, in 1966, I went hiking with my father Ladislav. He spotted something gold ...
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Jugs, pottery, 1st century A.D., Suhadole
In 2000 Miran Bremšak informed us that they found a Roman well while building their house. Amongst other objects, the well also contained jugs and several fragments that belonged to jugs and other types of pots. The jugs have two handles and were most likely made on the same pottery spindle. ...
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Buckles, 1st century A.D., Suhadole
The buckles were found in 2000 in a Roman well in Suhadole. Their intended use was binding clothes together and were primarily worn by women. The women’s attire in the Roman times consisted of two parts – a tunic was worn below and a garment, bound together by a fibula, was worn on top. ...
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Josip Germ, Self-Portrait, 1893
The painter Josip Germ (1869-1950) is one of the prominent representatives of academic realism at the turn of the 19th century, which is distinguished by precise drawing and rich colours. Certainly, the most witnessing and confessional work of Germ's Viennese period is his youthfully exalted ...
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Unknown painter, Portrait of General Mihael Pregl, 1623
o.pl., 200 x 123 cm, painter of the first half of the 17th century / painted by A. Koželj. The portrait of "General Wachtmeister" Mihael Pregl is painted completely frontally, in a standing position. He holds a rifle in his right hand, he has a helmet on his right leg, and a dog on his left ...
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The unusual life of a helmet from Vrhpolje near Kamnik
It was 1928. Farmer Kregar, who rented Romšak's field in Vrhpolje near Kamnik, was hit by unusual objects while plowing with a plow. In 1935, he gave the helmet (he thought it was a tin pot made of metal. He used it for feeding hen in the yard), along with iron spears and axe, to Josip Nikolaj ...
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The treasure finding of coins from Češnjice in the Tuhinj valley
The found treasure which contained more than hundred gold coins, mostly Hungary ducats, some Spanish doble excellente and more than thousand, five hundred silver coins, mainly Venetian liras and some copper coins, might indicate that the coins were owned by the merchant who in the middle of the ...
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