Archaeology collection

An iron seal ring of a senior Roman military figure with a portrait engraving on an inserted silver plate and the inscription ABVNDANTI, represents an exceptional piece of jewelry from the middle of the 4th century.

Bronze buckets with handles. Iron attachés were attached to the mouth. The handles of the buckets were also made of iron. They held about a liter, 2.8 or 8.5 liters of water.

The rumbler bell is an object intended for making sounds, similar to a small bell. Their usefulness was very different.

A piece of tombstone with a griffin motif, a mystical creature with a lion's body or the body of a sea monster and with wings.

The museum holds a portion of the mandible of the Dwarf Rhinoceros from Motnik. This is the oldest item in our collections.

The grave was found at Toma Brejca Street no. 20. Kamnik. It dates from the second half of the 13th - first half of the 11th century B.C.

Biconcave or lenticular tinder on a chain, Iron, 13th century, Mali grad. In addition to their practical significance, firecrackers also have a symbolic meaning.

Treasure find of more than 1800. coins from the middle of the 16th century. In 1956, a secret burial was found by a local, at a house with the local name "Pri šacu - By the treasure".

Buckles - fibulae were intended for fastening clothes, mainly worn by women.
Three are made of bronee, one is silver.

The bell was donated to the museum by the finder in 2016 for the exhibition Na planincah luštno biti … and later for permanent preservation.

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 35), from where it was moved into the museum’s lapidarium in 1968.

The jugs have two handles and were most likely made on the same pottery spindle. They are between 24 and 28 cm high and can uphold from 1.7 to 2.5 litres of liquid.

In 1928, farmer Kregar hit unusual objects while plowing with a plow in Romšak's field in Vrhpolje near Kamnik.

The stone urn with a plate was foun in 1979 in Mengeš. In the grave were two balsamariums, a ribbed glass bowl and an iron knife.

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.

A lot of bones were already found in 1837 by Henrik Freyer, curator of the Provincial Museum in Ljubljana.

Common finds from the Late Stone and Copper Ages are stone axes. Such axes were still in use in the Bronze Age.

Tokens were mainly used for table games, gambling and similar entertainment.