OBJECTS OF JOY
Tuesday, 2 December, at 18.00 OBJECTS OF JOY Opening of the guest exhibition of the Pomurje Museum Murska Sobota The exhibition tells the story of joy and reveals our emotional relationship to the material world through objects from the museum's collections, personal objects and stories of individuals. The exhibition is the recipient of the Valvasor's Carnation Award in 2025. (Kino Partizan)
MUSEUM CLUB - MEETINGS WITH EDUARD LIND
Thursday, 13 November, at 18.00 MUSEUM CLUB - MEETINGS WITH EDUARD LIND Discussion on restoration interventions The fourth meeting of the Museum Club, entitled Restoration of paintings by Eduard Lind and their frames, will be devoted to a presentation of the systematic restoration interventions carried out on Lind's works in recent years. The guests of the evening will be the restorers mag. Barbka Gosar Hirci and Irena Porekar Kacafura, [...]
CASTLE GARDENS AND DINING
Saturday, 15 November at 10:00 GARDENS AND GARDENS OF THE GRAY: AUTUMN 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 seventh session, we will prepare a [...]
LJUBICA RIBIĆ AND MILAN NOVAK
Wednesday, 12 November, at 18.00 LJUBICA RIBIĆ AND MILAN NOVAK Poetry Evening Ljubica Ribić and Milan Novak are a Slovenian-Croatian poetry duo from Varaždin, where they are the driving force behind the Ritam misli association, which, in addition to its publishing activities, makes an important contribution to the development of cultural life in the city. They have published several collections of poetry, including a joint collection of love poetry in 2020 [...]
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.
