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Emil Spruk - Kamnik music legend

Objavljeno: 07.05.2020
The legendary musician turned 60 on May 1 this year. Emil Spruk is probably all fans of the more demanding genres of music who know and appreciate: He is a composer, arranger, conductor and, above all, an excellent soloist on the record. After lower music school, he enrolled at the Ljubljana High ...

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The treasure finding of coins from Češnjice in the Tuhinj valley

Objavljeno: 04.05.2020
The found treasure which contained more than hundred gold coins, mostly Hungary ducats, some Spanish doble excellente and more than thousand, five hundred silver coins, mainly Venetian liras and some copper coins, might indicate that the coins were owned by the merchant who in the middle of the ...

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When visiting the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik

Objavljeno: 29.04.2020
The museum and its units are a safe place for visitors. These are places where we learn about the precious past, places for remembering and planing for the future. In the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 6pm. Please, follow ...

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Sculptor Jakob Savinšek

Objavljeno: 28.04.2020
Sculptor, also an illustrator, Jakob Savinšek was born on February 4, 1922 in Kamnik. In Ljubljana he finished high school (1941) and later, in 1949, studied at the Academy of Performing Arts. In 1950 he attended a sculptural specialty with Boris Kalin. During the Second World War he was interned ...

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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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Polona Lovšin - Illustrations

Objavljeno: 20.04.2020
In 2020, we present the illustrator Polona Lovšin (1973) in two locations, in her home town Trzin, where the author's work will be presented with exhibition and at the View Gallery in Kamnik, where the author's original illustrations and book editions of picture books will be displayed. A ...

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100th Birthday of Acad. Prof. Phd. Stane Gabrovec

Objavljeno: 18.04.2020
On this date, April 18th 1920, Stanislav Gabrovec was born at the Zaprice Castle. His father Franc was from Palovce near Kamnik and mother Jožefa was from Anhovo in Primorska. He had two older sisters, Jožefa and Olga. They lived off their father's earnings, which was not easy. In 1927, ...

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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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Pasta and coffee

Objavljeno: 14.04.2020
About the Triglav Pasta Factory from Šmarca near Kamnik Yes, sometimes we were even more self-sufficient in Kamnik than we are today. In Šmarca, they made pasta and even roasted coffee. The plant's origins date back to the time before World War I, when the Livestock Federation of Šmarca ...

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Easter eggs

Objavljeno: 10.04.2020
Easter egg is a traditional food. Egg is an Indo-European spring symbol, an image of new life and fertility. In Christianity it symbolizes the resurrection of Christ, including the drops of his blood, and for a few centuries it is part of the consecrated Easter dishes. In Slovenia, the decorating ...

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