ANDREJ ULE: ON THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT
Thursday, 6 November, at 18.00 ANDREJ ULE: ON THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT Philosophy among books Our guest is philosopher Dr Andrej Ule. The starting point of the talk will be his voluminous and acclaimed book On the Nature of the Spirit, in which the author reflects in depth on how the concept of the spirit has been imagined throughout history and today, and formulates a new, philosophically and scientifically [...]
KATARINA KEČEK: DAUGHTER OF THE OCCUPIER
Tuesday, 4 November, at 17.00 KATARINA KEČEK: THE OCCUPATOR'S DAUGHTER Book series In her second novel, The Occupier's Daughter, the writer and journalist Katarina Keček describes her experience of being erased from the register of Slovenian citizens by the government in 1991. The event is considered one of the biggest human rights violations in recent Slovenian history. At the time, she was a twenty-year-old first-year student [...]
BAROQUE ART IN MARIBOR CASTLE
Saturday, 18 October, 11.00 - 12.00 BAROQUE ART IN MARIBOR Castle** Workshop for children The luxurious and playful Baroque style strongly influenced the appearance of Maribor Castle. Children will see the rich stucco and step paintings in the Knights' Hall, the Baroque statues and decorative motifs. In the creative part of the workshop, they will then transfer the Baroque artistic images onto cotton [...]
COMMEMORATIVE EVENING
Friday, 17 October, at 19.30 MARIBOR DAY 2025 MEMORIAL EVENING Ceremonial Academy This year's Memorial Evening on the occasion of Maribor Day will be dedicated to Dr Zora Janžekovič (1918-2015), a Slovenian surgeon and pioneer of new methods of treating burns, who was ranked by international medical experts as one of the 25 most influential doctors of the 20th century. Her work will be presented by Dr. [...]
BAROQUE ART IN MARIBOR CASTLE
Friday, 17 October, at 17.00 MARIBOR DAY 2025 BAROQUE ART IN MARIBOR CASTLE Public guided tour The present-day appearance of the city castle was decisively influenced by the Baroque, which gave it a representative residential character through its reconstructions. With an explanation by curator Dr Valentina Bevc Varl and academic sculptor Vlasta Čebal Sedmak, we will admire the monumental Baroque details and learn more about the approaches [...]
SMALL SYMPOSIUM - THE BOURGEOISIE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Friday, 10 October at 10.00 A SMALL SYMPOSIUM Bourgeoisie in the 19th Century Young history researchers will present the rich cultural heritage of our city and the life of the townspeople in the second half of the 19th century through the art of Eduard Lind. The primary school pupils' papers will highlight the most important citizens of the town, explain how everyday life in the town was lived and describe the townspeople's crafts and professions.
NADA GAŠIĆ: WATER, COBWEBS
Wednesday, 8 October, at 18.00 NADA GAŠIĆ: WATER, PAJČEVINA Literary stop with the Maribor Library Maribor-born writer Nada Gašić is considered the most »Zagreb author«, as all her works are a mosaic of Zagreb's streets, famous buildings and people. Her novel Water, Cobwebs (2010), the first of her works to be translated into Slovenian, masterfully blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction. The [...]
GUIDED TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION MARIBORSKI PAINTER EDUARD LIND
Friday, 10 October, at 17.00 MARIBORIAN PAINTER EDUARD LIND Guided tour of the exhibition In the second half of the 19th century, when Maribor was experiencing an economic and cultural boom, the painter Eduard Lind established himself as an important portraitist of the townspeople of the time. His extensive oeuvre of paintings made him one of the most important visual chroniclers of the time. After the [...]
GUIDED TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION MARIBORSKI PAINTER EDUARD LIND
Saturday, 4 October, at 11.00 MARIBORIAN PAINTER EDUARD LIND Guided tour of the exhibition In the second half of the 19th century, the German-born Maribor painter Eduard Lind established himself in the city as a portrait painter of famous and unknown townspeople and bourgeois families. The presentation of Lind's clients and subjects reveals the story of Maribor in a period when the city was experiencing an economic and cultural boom. [...]
CASTLE GARDENS AND DINING
Saturday, 4 October at 10.00 GARDENS AND GARDENS* Botanical and culinary workshop Weeds and flowers that grow outside our gardens can be a tasty and nutritious addition to the menu. We will learn about plants and their uses under the guidance of Meta Pivec, a research assistant at the Botanical Garden of the University of Maribor. In the sixth session, we will prepare flower canapés [...]
