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Historical Secrets

Majolka bod’ pozdravljena

Objavljeno: 08.12.2020
We are all looking forward to presenting our new exhibition, which was created in cooperation with the National Museum of Slovenia, Slovenian majolika. We believe we will see each other again this year. And you will also be able to buy a luxurious and image-rich catalogue that goes along with it. ...

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From the history of Zaprice Castle

Objavljeno: 03.12.2020
For the winter hours, we have prepared a rebus from the history of Zaprice Castle, where the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik has been housed for 60 years. The museum and its administrative, exhibition and storage premises are housed in Zaprice Castle. The castle lies on a hill above Kamnik, and ...

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Great Slovenes - November 23, Rudolf Maister Day

Objavljeno: 23.11.2020
The comparison and connection of great Slovenes, such as the architect Jože Plečnik, the writer and priest Fran Saleški Finžgar, the painter Tone Kralj and the general and poet Rudolf Maister, has recently offered itself for various reasons, including anniversaries and centenaries. An ...

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Painted ceramics by Miha Maleš

Objavljeno: 20.11.2020
The graphic artist and painter Miha Maleš (1907–1989), a native of Jeranovo near Kamnik, also worked in Schnabl's ceramic workshop in Kamnik. He was engaged in graphics, drawing, canvas painting, wall fresco painting, stained glass, tapestries and book illustrations … and of course ...

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Monument to the poet and playwright Anton Medved

Objavljeno: 11.05.2020
It will soon be 50 years since the unveiling of the monument to the poet and playwright Anton Medved (1869-1910) in Graben. In 1969, the Tourist Association in Kamnik initiated the unveiling of a bust in honour of the 100th anniversary of his birth. For the monument, the commission chose a place ...

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The Kamnik region and the Spanish flu a hundred years ago

Objavljeno: 23.04.2020
About a hundred years ago, we had a similar pandemic of unknown disease – so called Spanish flu, one of the worst in history, which has spread in 1918-1919. The disease spread from Kansas, USA, to Europe in the spring of 1918. Due to the war and military censorship, flu was only reported in ...

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Votive image from Kamnik, 1794

Objavljeno: 17.04.2020
A motive painting, painted on wood, depicts the terrible accident of a young girl, Theresa Beč, in 1794. A simple painter tried to portray the girl's fall as a kind of movie frame. There was an accident in a child's play when Theresa was standing on a rock, following her fall from a rock above a ...

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Painter Ivan Vavpotič and the first Slovenian mark Verigar

Objavljeno: 16.04.2020
Slovenian realist painter Ivan Vavpotič also directed his artistic design to create the first Slovenian mark. Chainsaws are the first Slovenian marks for which the artist mentioned at the end of 1918 contributed sketches. They were printed in Ljubljana and Vienna. In 1919 and 1920 they were in ...

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The story of the popular Kamnik’s polka

Objavljeno: 02.04.2020
Probably the most popular song about Kamnik, and so to speak, the Kamnik anthem, is a song called the Kamniška polka. The author of both the lyrics and the melody is the musician Andrej Blumauer, who was born in 1932 in Graz, Austria. They soon moved to Ljubljana, where he spent his childhood ...

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The story of the popular flowers "murke"

Objavljeno: 27.03.2020
Murke are flowers related to orchids. In Slovenia we have three basic ones - red, black and one from Kamnik region, which is the only endemic. Her home is mainly in Krvavec and the Kamnik Alps. The Murke’s most celebrated the Avsenik Waltz Where the Murke Blossom. Slavko Avsenik wrote the ...

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