Museum stories

Pentateuch (Moses' books), 1578

Objavljeno: 25.10.2018
It is one of the few preserved Protestant prints in Slovenia. Another one is also kept at the Franciscan monastery in Kamnik. Only six of them are preserved in the world, this was found by Josip N. Sadnikar in Kneže in Carinthia. It was published by printer Mandelc in Ljubljana as an experiment ...

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Jakob Savinšek, Pregnant, patinated plaster, 1949

Objavljeno: 24.10.2018
The work Pregnant dated in the year 1949 and shows the female figure with a small oval head and a broadly rounded body. On the tense abdomen, the resting hands indicate the state of expectation of the depicted woman. In this statue Savinšek abandoned all the details that would hinder the ...

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Buckets, bronze, Suhadole near Komenda, 1st century

Objavljeno: 24.10.2018
The burial was removed from one piece of bronze sheet and finished on a lathe. Iron attachments were attached to the mouth. Handles of buckets were also iron. The buckets were repaired several times with larger or smaller pieces of sheet metal, which is basically attached to the rivets. The bucket ...

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Decorative plate, ceramics, around 1900

Objavljeno: 24.10.2018
Decorative plate with a motif of flowers with butterfly, slightly embossed on a gray relief background. At the bottom of the brand Schütz Cilli 619. The Schütz family began producing ceramics in 1852. The family business was located in Olomoucani near Blansko in Moravia. The carriers of the ...

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Ernst Mayer, Castle Zaprice, watercolour, around 1880

Objavljeno: 24.10.2018
Ernst Mayer was born in Himmelberg in today's Austrian region of Carinthia on May 28, 1839, and died in Rijeka in Croatia on February 14, 1926. He studied at "Tehnikum" in Graz and in Vienna and at the cadet institute in Venice. He was a cadet of the first rank of the Austrian Navy. In 1863, as a ...

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The leather’s guild mugs, tin, 1725

Objavljeno: 17.10.2018
A typical form of drinking tin for special occasions, widely used in the 17th and 18th centuries, was guild mugs. They were used at special guild ceremonies, such as the reception of an assistant among the masters. In the Intermunicipal museum Kamnik, we also store, among others, guild mugs used ...

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Seals for salted cheese »trnič«, Velika planina, first half of the 20th century

Objavljeno: 17.10.2018
The fonts are elongated wooden seals with engraved symbols and ornaments. With them, the herdsmen were pushed into a trunk, a special type of strongly salted cheese, which they shaped into clumps similar to onions and above pointed. Still fresh cheese was decorated with a print of wooden seals. ...

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Ten plebiscite commands for Slovenes, propaganda leaflet, 1920

Objavljeno: 16.10.2018
The leaflet was part of the Slovene plebiscite propaganda in Carinthia in 1920. It is shaped in the manner of the ten God's commandments which the Slovenes in Carinthia should keep in relation to the German neighbours and, of course, about their decision on the plebiscite. The Paris Peace ...

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Miha Maleš, Embrace (The sun in May), 1930

Objavljeno: 11.10.2018
Miha Maleš, Embrace (The sun in May), monotype, 1930. Maleš put a love couple in the embrace in the central axis of the picture. The low-ranking scene is a meadow that is sputtered, with schematic rosaries, and the horizons are also closed by schematically drawn mountains. The representation ...

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Stigmatization of St Francis

Objavljeno: 10.10.2018
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