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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.

Maribor Regional Museum

Maribor Regional Museum in Maribor Castle,
© Maribor Regional Museum

The origins of the Maribor Regional Museum date back to 1903, when the Historical Society of Slovene Styria was founded in Maribor and the Museum Society Marburg opened its first museum to the public. In 1920, the two societies merged, and in 1924 they were joined by the collection of the Diocesan Museum of Lavant, founded in 1896.

Permanent exhibition of the Museum Society in Maribor, before 1909, © Maribor Regional Museum
Until 1938, the museum was housed in a converted penitentiary in Cankarjeva Street. In 1933, the Municipality of Maribor bought the town castle and five years later it was used as a museum. The greatest credit for this goes to Franjo Baš, the Banovinian archivist and secretary of the Museum Society in Maribor and the Historical Society for Slovenian Styria. After the end of the Second World War, he became the first director of the Maribor Regional Museum. The museum moved into the castle in 1938 and opened its doors to the public on the 18th of December of the same year.
The beginnings and the museum shop, photo by Tomo Jeseničnik,
© Maribor Regional Museum
After 120 years, the Maribor Regional Museum has 16 employees looking after around 120,000 museum items, arranged in 18 collections in which they store archaeological, ethnological, artistic, cultural-historical, and pharmaceutical movable heritage, as well as a vast fashion collection from the area of 23 municipalities. The museum operates in three locations, creates around 300 events a year and welcomes around 170,000 visitors annually. It can also boast of its museum shop and the Castle Cafe, whose offer and its interior design reflect the splendor of the castle's premises and invite you to visit the museum.
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