2. General information about the Institute and the public information in its possession

Information on the organisation of the public body and organigram

Description of the area of work:

The Maribor Regional Museum is a general museum with collections in archaeology, ethnology and cultural history. It operates in a wide area from Prekmurje through Styria to Carinthia. It has its own conservation and restoration workshop, teaching service, museum shop, café and other services.

The Maribor Regional Museum protects, researches and preserves material. It organises exhibitions and events to stimulate interest in and knowledge of the culture and history of the area in which it operates. The museum works with civil society, which responds to the museum's collections through creative interventions. Collaboration with collectors and craftspeople and the presentation and promotion of their work is introduced. Special attention is paid to younger visitors, for whom creative workshops are organised, and for pupils and students, expert guidance in the form of lessons. The museum runs an extensive andragogical programme for different target groups. Various events are held in the museum premises: concerts, lectures, professional meetings. The research activities of the curators are permanently recorded in the museum's publications, which are published on a regular basis.

The beginnings of the Maribor Regional Museum date back to 1903, when the Historical Society for Slovenian Styria was founded. In the same year, the Museum Society, founded in 1902, opened the first museum to the public in Maribor. Both societies, together with the Museum of the Diocese of Lavantine, founded in 1896, are the forerunners of today's museum. The collections of the Museum Society and the Historical Society merged in 1920, and in 1924 the Museum of the Diocese of Lavantine joined them with a collection of sacred art. In 1938, the combined collections began to operate in the premises of the Maribor City Castle, where the museum is still housed today.

POMUM carries out the following tasks:

• Recording, collecting, documenting, preserving, conserving, studying, researching, exhibiting and communicating the movable cultural heritage in the 23 municipalities;
• submitting data to the Heritage Register;
• preparation of studies and studies for the protection of movable cultural heritage;
• Preparing the technical basis for declaratory acts and consents for administrative procedures;
• Integration in the system of protection of heritage in the event of armed conflict and protection against natural and other disasters; monitoring of the maintenance, intervention, use and circulation of movable cultural heritage in the territory or area of its territorial jurisdiction;
• monitoring the management of movable cultural heritage owned by the State and local authorities in the territory or area of its territorial jurisdiction;
• directing and monitoring the work of operators carrying out heritage protection activities under permits or concessions; carrying out research projects using methods that involve interventions on movable cultural heritage:
• preparing and implementing restoration and conservation programmes;
• organising exhibitions, publications and other forms of presenting movable cultural heritage and the results of the museum's work at home and abroad;
• organising guest appearances at national and international exhibitions;
• lending movable cultural heritage from its collections to national and international museums for their exhibitions, publications or research needs;
• preparing and implementing pedagogical and and pedagogical programmes, programmes for groups with special needs, and cooperation with educational and other organisations;
• promoting its activities; organising professional and scientific talks and meetings;
• cooperation with domestic and foreign natural and legal persons governed by private law holding collections of movable cultural heritage, with research and expertise and technical resources; maintenance of a specialised library for its field of activity;
• managing the public infrastructure for its area of work; carrying out other tasks in accordance with the approved annual work programme and financial plan.