Open day at Maister's birthplace

On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, there will be an open day at Maister’s birthplace in Šutna in Kamnik. On this day, which has also been a municipal holiday since 1995, a great Slovene, our compatriot Rudolf Maister, was born in 1874.

After the end of the First World War in 1918, at the break-up of Austria-Hungary, he preserved a large part of the national territory along the border with Austria with his audacity and clarity and laid the foundations of today’s Slovenian state.

In his renovated birth house, which has been a museum since 2013, there are, among other things, two exhibitions: permanent and occasional. The permanent exhibition Rudolf Maister – patriot, general, culturist, poet, bibliophile – tells the story of a patriot and a cosmopolitan; this time the occasional Kärnten / Carinthia (und) divided country – 100 years after the plebiscite about Carinthia, which remained in Austria.

Topics in interesting exhibitions are complemented by videos, interviews with the descendants of Maister’s fighters, films about the First World War, about Maister’s culturist and poet, a recording of the play Plebiscite, dr. Izidor Cankar, which we played in 2020, for the first time in a hundred years and for the first time in Slovenia, in the parish garden next to the Maister House, and more.

A special space in the museum is also intended for the youngest; they feel good in it and get to know the great Slovene with the help of various games, such as memory, puzzle, quiz, as well as by listening to stories, reading picture books…

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