Signing of the Donation Agreement for the Collection of Tine Orel – Educator, Mountaineer, Editor and Publicist

You are cordially invited to attend the ceremonial signing of the donation agreement and the handover of the collection from the estate of Professor Tine Orel,

which will take place on Wednesday, 21 January 2026, at 12:00 noon, at the Ivan Hribar Center in Trzin,
where a permanent exhibition dedicated to Tine Orel is also on display.

Through the donation agreement, Ms Tanja Orel Šturm will donate the collection from the estate of Tine Orel to the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik, of which the Municipality of Trzin is also a co-founder.

Tine Orel was born on 9 February 1913 in Trzin, at the Mežnar farm. Despite modest circumstances, he was educated at the Šentvid Diocesan Classical Gymnasium and graduated in 1936 from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana.

He devoted his professional career to the education and upbringing of young people. After the Second World War, he worked as a professor and principal of the First Grammar School in Celje, and later in Ljubljana as an educational advisor and university professor of Slovene at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana and in Nova Gorica. He was a devoted mountaineer and alpinist, long-time president of the Celje Mountaineering Society, and for nearly three decades the editor-in-chief of Planinski vestnik (1950–1979), the oldest Slovenian mountaineering magazine. As an editor, publicist, and translator, he left a significant mark on Slovenian cultural, mountaineering, and educational thought.

For his work, he received numerous awards, including the Bloudek Award (1971), the Order of the Republic with Silver Wreath (1980), as well as many professional and association honours. In 2004, the Tine Orel Local Library in Trzin was named after him.

We extend our sincere thanks to Ms Tanja Orel Šturm and all family members who, with great care and responsibility, preserved the estate of Professor Tine Orel and are now donating it to a museum institution. This is exceptionally valuable material that preserves not only the memory of an individual, but also an important part of our cultural, educational, and mountaineering heritage. Therefore, the signing of the donation agreement is not merely a formal act, but also an expression of respect for a man who, through his knowledge, work, and dedication, left a profound mark on our community.

You are warmly invited.