Museum stories

Jesus' conversation with his parents

Objavljeno: 10.10.2018
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The Last supper, unknown painter, first half of the 17th century, oil on canvas

Objavljeno: 10.10.2018
The picture is painted with a strong contrast of illuminated parts and a dark background. Christ does not sit in the middle, but is slightly shifted towards the left. It is depicted at the moment when he offered the apostle a broken piece of bread. The apostles are also not so flexible, but their ...

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Silver snuff box, middle of the 19th century

Objavljeno: 08.10.2018
In front of us there is a silver snuff box, used by an unknown nobleman in the middle of the 19th century and worn around her neck. The cover is depicted by Henriette Sontag (1806 - 1854), a German opera singer of international repute. The portrait is made according to the work of Franz Xaver ...

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Ivan Vavpotič, Self-portrait, 1940, oil on canvas

Objavljeno: 28.09.2018
Ivan Vavpotič was born in Kamnik on February 21, 1877. From 1898 to 1905, he studied at the Prague Academy, one year at the Louvre School in Paris and a half-year in Vienna. Between 1906 and 1910, he teached in school in Idrija, during the First World War he painted the battlefields, and in 1927, ...

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Orgel Positive, Marcus Göbl and Joannes G. Eisl, 1743

Objavljeno: 27.09.2018
Orgel Positive, Marcus Göbl and Joannes G. Eisl, 1743, bone, pear wood, walnut wood, spruce wood, tin, gilt The portable organ was produced by  Marcus Göbl and Joannes G. Eisl in Ljubljana and represents one of the smallest organ instruments in Slovenia. The signatures of the masters on the ...

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Men's seal ring, middle of the 4th century

Objavljeno: 26.09.2018
Men's seal ring, cast iron with silver tile, middle of the 4th century The iron seal ring of a senior Roman military person with a portrait engraving on the embroidered silver plaque and the inscription ABVNDANTI represents an exceptional piece of jewellery from the middle of the 4th ...

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Franc Aparnik, Kamnik's Suburbs Sutna, postcard, around 1930

Objavljeno: 26.09.2018
Franc Aparnik, Kamnik's Suburbs Sutna, postcard, around 1930 The Aparnik photo studio was in Kamnik for more than half a century, from 1895 to 1953. First photographer was father Franc Aparnik and from 1929 also his son Stane. Franc Aparnik was extremely broad in his motive and product range. A ...

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Membership card of the Legion of Carinthian fighters, 1938

Objavljeno: 25.09.2018
Anton Šenica's membership card of the Legion of Carinthian fighters, 1938 Maister’s fighters for the northern border of 1918-1919 began to connect and to participate in various organizations from 30s of the 20th century. According to the data collected so far, little less than a hundred ...

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Majolica, the end of the 18th century

Objavljeno: 25.09.2018
Majolica CC, the end of the 18th century Majolica is a special form of drinking jug, which began to develop in Italy from the Renaissance time. First so called "Carniola majolica", painted drinking jugs were made for Slovenian drinkers in northern Italy, in Pesaro in the second half of the 18th ...

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Johann Georg Glässl, pocket watch, around 1720

Objavljeno: 24.09.2018
Johann Georg Glässl, pocket watch, thin and engraved silver sheet, silver plated dial, around 1720 Watchmaking craft has a long tradition in Slovenia and with the help of written sources we can follow it from the beginning of the 16th century. Originally, watchmakers were foreigners who came ...

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