Museum stories

Votive image from Kamnik, 1794

Objavljeno: 17.04.2020
A motive painting, painted on wood, depicts the terrible accident of a young girl, Theresa Beč, in 1794. A simple painter tried to portray the girl's fall as a kind of movie frame. There was an accident in a child's play when Theresa was standing on a rock, following her fall from a rock above a ...

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Tombstone of the Dindii, Second half of 1st century, Kamnik

Objavljeno: 06.04.2020
For Caius Dindius Blandus and Octavia Quarta, the daughter of Publius, to the son Caius Dindius Blandus, aged eight. The tombstone was discovered around 1830 in Kamnik, under the Zaprice castle. It was later built into the wall of the former pub Pri Krištofu, now called Ideja Kamnik (Šutna ...

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Tinder on a chain, Mali grad

Objavljeno: 03.04.2020
Biconcave or lenticular tinder on a chain, Iron, 13th century, Mali grad. This is a common medieval form of tinder that can be of a more or less convex shape. Apart from its practical use tinder also has a symbolic meaning. For instance the South Slavs believed that the flint stone symbolised ...

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Shepherd's shoes, around 1950

Objavljeno: 24.02.2020
Shepherd's shoes are from wood, mostly maple, on Velika planina, with a distinctive knit upper made of larch wood (later replaced by leather). The sole was protected with nails for safer walking. It is believed that the nails appeared around 16-17 century. They are often found as archaeological ...

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Mint coins from Kamnik, 13th century

Objavljeno: 24.02.2020
Coin mint money from the time of Henry IV. Andechs (1204–1228) and Frederick II. Babenberg (1230–1243). At least since 1195, the Andechs Mint of Money was mentioned in Kamnik and was influenced by the mint of the Patriarchs of Aquileia and the Archbishops of Salzburg. After 1220 they also ...

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Pilgrimage with St. Anne, middle of the 18th century.

Objavljeno: 24.02.2020
Pilgrimage with St. Anne and the churches in Tunjice, Komenda, Mekinje, St. Primus above Kamnik, Stari grad (Old Castle), Križ, middle of the 18th century. In the middle of the 18th century, in parish in Komenda worked Peter Pavel Glavar, an ardent spiritual shepherd, a cultural worker, ...

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Landmark of the Kamnik City Territory, 18th Century

Objavljeno: 24.02.2020
The museum's collection preserves the landmark of the Kamnik city territory, probably from the 18th century, with the engraved inscription Der Stat Stain Purgfrid. It was found in 1966 on Kersnikova Street in Kamnik while digging a trench for the water supply. It is one of the few preserved ...

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Urn grave with grave goods, Toma Brejca Street no. 20, Kamnik, end 13.-1. half of the 11th century BC

Objavljeno: 03.02.2020
Ceramic urn, ceramic bowl and the bronze needle. In June 1965, Stane Uršič found a grave with described contents on the lot nr. 707/16 cadastral zone Kamnik. The grave was covered with a stone slab carved from the sandstone. He immediately informed the Kamni Museum about the find. The ...

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Tanner Craftsman’s house Mark, 1549

Objavljeno: 19.12.2019
In the lapidary of the Intermunicipal museum Kamnik is preserved a tanner craftsman's house mark from Kamnik. The central part represents the frame in relief. On the left edge of it are the stonecutter's mark and the letters TA, and on the right edge are MA. Below them is a leather knife for skin ...

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Dwarf Rhinoceros, Jaw, Motnik

Objavljeno: 29.10.2019
Somewhat younger, but still inconceivably old, tertiary rocks from the former Pannonian Sea have been preserved on the outskirts of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps (the Tertiary began about 64 million years ago and ended 1.6 million years ago). They can be found in the valleys of Kamniška Bistrica and ...

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