Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00-18:00
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00-18:00

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WE'RE GOING ON OUR OWN

The virtual exhibition We're going on our own presents seven independent cultural institutions in Maribor with common roots. They are the backbone of Maribor's institutional cultural activity. In addition to the Maribor Regional Museum, the exhibition also presents the Maribor University Library, the Maribor Regional Archive, the town's main Art Gallery, the Museum of National Liberation, the Maribor Synagogue and the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage the Maribor Regional Unit.

The exhibition We're going on our own was created to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Maribor Regional Museum as part of the project of the same name.

Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (ZVKDS),
Maribor regional unit

Building of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Maribor Regional Unit, photo by Alenka Zupan.

The public service for the protection of cultural heritage dates back to 1913, when Dr France Stelè was appointed Regional Conservator of Monuments for Carniola. In the process of regionalisation of the Slovenian monument conservation service, the Institute for Monument Conservation was established in Maribor in 1959 and joined by nature conservationists in 1964. In 1999, the Maribor Regional Unit became part of the Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage.
A joint visit to the results of the archaeological excavations of the Villa Rustica during the reconstruction of the main road in Bohova, 1997. Standing are: Mira Strmčnik Gulič, ZVKDS OE Maribor, Zlatka in Stanko Pahič, retired archaeologist of the Maribor Regional Museum with wife, and Dr Slavko Ciglenečki from the Institute of Archaeology ZRC SAZU. Photo: ZVKDS OE Maribor archive.

The link between the Institute and the Museum has always been strong. The cooperation with the former Director of the Museum, Dr Sergej Vrišer, was decisive for the preservation and restoration of some key cultural monuments in Maribor and the surrounding area.
The association with the museum archaeologist Stanko Pahič, who carried out topographic surveys of the area of NE Slovenia, led to the mapping and the first registers of archaeological sites, and since 1973 has created a solid foundation for the protection of sites in the area.

Archaeological excavations on the route of the motorway in Orehova vas, 2007. Collaborators: Stanko Gojkovič, ZVKDS OE Maribor, Vesna Koprivnik, POMUM. Photo archive ZVKDS OE Maribor.

Cooperation continued with archaeological investigations on the motorway routes, which took place under the auspices of the Maribor unit of the ZVKDS between 1996 and 2008 and culminated in the high-profile joint exhibition Current Archaeological Discoveries in 2009.
This exemplary cooperation continues today with the restoration of the cultural monument Maribor - Castle.

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