Exhibitions

Sociability in Kamnik from A to Ž

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
from 15.06.2024 to 15.06.2025
With the exhibition and the accompanying booklet, a kind of alphabet book Sociability in Kamnik from A to Ž, we tried to show fragments of the rich social life in municipality of Kamnik with the members of the study group. As author Marko Kumer writes in the introduction to the booklet, the ...

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Joyfull to Kamnik. Mostly sixties.

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
from 17.06.2023 to 15.09.2025
The new temporary exhibition entitled Joyfull to Kamnik is dedicated to the stormy period of the sixties of the 20th century in Kamnik. We borrowed the title from the most popular song that sings of the beauty of the city and its surroundings. The period of the 1960s includes a whole series of ...

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Tone Cevc, ethnologist, researcher and connoisseur of the Alpine world

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
from 01.06.2022 to 01.06.2050
On 31st of May 2022 would phd Tone Cevc celebrated his 90th birthday. He was employed as a scientist and researcher at the Institute of Slovene Ethnography ZRC SAZU for almost three decades. We joined forces with phd. Cevc’s cooworkers at the Institut, his family, colleagues and friends and ...

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History of Zaprice Manor

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
Za nedoločen čas
The exhibition shows the building development of the Zaprice manor from the middle of the 14th century and the life behind the manor walls in the 19th and 20th centuries, when the manor was also visited by famous holidaymakers during the summer months. And until the confiscation of property to the ...

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Reflections of Kamnik’s Millennia

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
Za nedoločen čas
Reflections of Kamnik’s Millennia is the permanent exhibition and it is projected to show life in the city of Kamnik and its surroundings from the first known paleontological findings, the first settlements, and the formation of the city until the 19th century. 

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Kamnik bourgeoisie in the 19th century

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
Za nedoločen čas
The exhibition gives an insight into various aspects of the everyday life of the Kamnik bourgeoisie in the 19th century. In those days the city was the centre of Kamnik’s political district. In Kamnik there were the headquarters of the district board, the district court and other district ...

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Life in the Kamnik Mountains

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
Za nedoločen čas
The permanent exhibition Na planincah luštno biti gives an overview of life in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps from the first archeological finds until today. Velika planina is the highest alpine pasture plateau in Slovenia, which has preserved its essence and tradition, and still lives on. The oval ...

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Thonet's Furniture

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
Za nedoločen čas
It shows the unique inventiveness of Michael Thonet, who drove the method of wood bending from handicraft to industry. His products from bentwood were a fashion hit in interior decoration from the middle of the 19th century till the end of World War I, and were found in bourgeoisie apartments, ...

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Castle Salon

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
Za nedoločen čas
Castle Salon is a unique permanent exhibition, presenting the history of the castle building and its improvements through the centuries.

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Stories in Stone - Lapidary

Zaprice Castle Museum and administration
Za nedoločen čas
Through the preserved stone heritage we learn about people and their life over the two millenniums of Kamnik and its surroundings’ history. Antique monuments from Trojane, Mengeš and Šentpavel make a beautiful collection with their diverse artistic form and epigraphic declaration. 

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