INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE - MUSEUM OF FLAVOURS
Ladies and Gentlemen, you are cordially invited to participate in the Museum of Tastes project. The Maribor Regional Museum is preparing a virtual museum collection with the working title Museum of Tastes. The collection is divided into five sections: Sweet, Savoury, Sour, Bitter, Spicy. It will include YOUR objects related to a particular taste. What is taste? Taste is one of the five basic senses [...]
OLD VINE HOUSE
The oldest vine in the world, more than 400 years old, grows on Maribor's Lent, and is the subject of an exhibition in the Old Vine House. The Maribor Regional Museum is joining the exhibition with glassware from glassworks in the Pohorje region. The culture of wine drinking has always been closely linked to glassware, which is [...]
THE MARIBOR CATHEDRAL BELL TOWER
In the framework of the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012 project, in cooperation with the Maribor Cathedral Parish, we opened a permanent museum exhibition The Watchtower on the Tower. The exhibition is located in the church bell tower, which was erected as a watchtower in the 14th century in the very geometric centre of the city, right next to the parish church. The four-storey tower was erected to observe the [...]
HOTEL PLANJA ON ROGLA
The Treasures of Pohorje exhibition is on show at the Hotel Planja in the Pohorje region of Zreče. The exhibition presents a brief history of glassmaking in Pohorje and glass products from Pohorje glassworks. The development of glassmaking was made possible by natural resources, as quartz sand, wood and water power were abundant. From the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century, at least 16 [...]
HOTEL ATRIJ IN ZREČE
The archaeological exhibition Traces of the Ancient Past - Brinjeva gora and its Surroundings, which is on display at the Atrij Hotel in Zreče, presents the results of systematic research into the oldest past of the town of Zreče, carried out by Stanko Pahič, an archaeologist at the Maribor Regional Museum, between 1953 and 1963. His excavations of various [...]
Franz Liszt, Little European Tour
Franz Liszt is considered the greatest pianist of his time. Born in 1811 in Raiding in Burgenland, Liszt was trained musically by Carlo Cherny and Antonio Salieri and, as a boy of 11, opened the way to the musical stages of Europe at that time with a concert in Vienna. He lived in a period of romanticism, national awakening and the rise of the bourgeoisie, a time [...]
Kitchen debate
VIDEO - LOVE GOES THROUGH THE KITCHEN The kitchen furniture, utensils and crockery on display are from the Maribor Regional Museum. The oldest items on display are wall doors from the early 17th century, while the youngest is the Marles Maksima kitchen from 1970, which was still in use in 2016. The exhibition is divided into nine [...]
Bread and games
Guest exhibition on Roman cuisine with which the Ptuj - Ormož Regional Museum joins the exhibition Kitchen debate Guest appearance on the Good Morning show Roman cuisine Roman cuisine has influenced all cuisines of the Western world, including our own. It has a rich history, having developed over centuries. It has taken many of the best and [...]
The radiance of eternity
An exhibition of jewellery from the collections of the Maribor Regional Museum and a sales exhibition of jewellery by selected designers Nataša Druškovič, Nataša Grandovec, Jasmina Granduč, Ana Haberman, Urška Hvalica, Tina Lah, Martina Obid Mlakar, Tjaša Rantaša, Dalija Sega, Maja Štamol, Ana Vogrin and Urša Zrnec. You are cordially invited.
You can't do without a museum!
2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr Serge Vrišer, art historian, long-time curator and director of the Maribor Regional Museum, professor of museology and conservation at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, professor of fine arts and culture at the Faculty of Education in Maribor, Baroquist, uniformologist, and a Maribor citizen - a writer on culture, art, the past and heritage. The [...]
