Since October 10, 2024, the Children’s Museum Herman’s Den has been showcasing a new temporary exhibition titled World of Herman’s Friends. This marks the 29th exhibition in a series aimed at young visitors.
The vibrant and interactive display spans four rooms, focusing on the connections between humans and the elements that shape them as social and living beings.
Over 50 of Herman’s friends contributed to the exhibition, highlighting the museum’s strong ties to the local community and beyond.
For the tenth consecutive year, the Forum of Slavic Cultures has awarded the ŽIVA Awards to the best Slavic museums, with the Museum of Recent History Celje being among the recipients.
The announcement of the ŽIVA Awards took place at the end of September 2024 during the international conference at the ETAR Regional Ethnographic Open-Air Museum in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. Among 20 nominated museums from 10 countries, our museum received a special award for sustainability and the preservation of heritage for its work with Photo house Pelikan.
The ŽIVA Award is not only intended to recognize cultural heritage and honour the achievements of the best museum practices in Slavic countries. It also represents a significant transnational cultural hub that promotes dialogue, communication, and collaboration in the protection of cultural and natural heritage, as well as in the promotion of museum collections, services, and education. The award is named after the Slavic goddess Živa, symbolizing the principles of life, beauty, vitality, and fertility.
During the museum’s presentation at the international conference, we premiered a brand-new documentary promotional film about Photo house Pelikan, which you can view at the following link (click).
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You are invited to spend this year’s summer museum night with us!
It will take place on 19 June 2021, from 6 pm to midnight.
Once again, we have prepared a varied program.
Museum exhibitions free of charge:
permanent exhibitions: Living in Celje, Children’s Museum Herman’s Den, Dentistry Collection temporary exhibitions: Herman’s Etiquette, Serving the Nation: Memoirs of Slovenian Soldiers from Yugoslav People’s Army
7 pm Stari pisker, guided tour
6 pm to 8 pm opening hours of the Skylight photographic studio Pelikan in Razlagova 5:
temporary exhibitions Faces (6 pm to 8 pm) and Pristneži (6 pm to 8 pm)
Dear visitors,
our museum is also slowly coming back. However, as we want to ensure safety for both the visitors of the museum and the employees, we ask you for a little patience to prepare everything necessary for the museum to remain a safe space.
Like most Slovenian museums, we will open our doors after the holidays on Tuesday, 5 May 2020.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
18.00-24.00 SUMMER MUSEUM NIGHT / free entrance
18.00 Herman’s workshop for families “Off to space”
18.00-20.00 Photoshooting at the Skylight photographic studio of Josip Pelikan/ summer-night discount
18.00-23.00 Revival of Street of craftsmen and museum pharmacy with museum volunteers and masters of trade
19.00 and 20.00 Stari pisker (Old pot), guided tour
21.00 I feel Slovenia, I feel Celje (program at the occasional exhibition)
18.00-21.00
Opening hours of Skylight photographic studio of Josip Pelikan in Razlagova ulica 5
18.00-24.00
Special offer in the museum shop (50% discount on publications MnZC)
On the occasion of the International Museum Day, on 18 May 2019, we invite you to our museum, where you can see all permanent and occasional exhibitions free of charge from 9am to 1pm.
As early as 1977, the International Council of Museums ICOM marked the International Museum Day in order to increase the visibility of museums in society and its development.
Over 40,000 museum institutions in more than 158 countries of the world are joining the celebration each year. Among them is Slovenia with its network of diverse museums and galleries.
The theme of this year’s International Museum Day is: Museums as Cultural Hubs: The future of tradition.
In the gallery of the Museum of Recent History Celje the exhibition Newspaper, first imprint of history – a selection from the collection of old newspapers and magazines of Ali Žerdin, is on display.
At the exhibition you can see the selection of 80 domestic and foreign covers from Museum of print, as author Ali Žerdin addresses his collection of old newspapers. The first part of the exhibition is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, the second to the world leaders, and the third to the personalities of rock music.
You can visit the exhibition free of charge until 26 May 2019.
On March 6th 2019 two temporary exhibitions “Border stones, barbed wire, guard towers and minefields. Life on the occupation boundaries in Slovenia, 1941-1945” and “Rogaška Slatina as the border town of the Third Reich, 1941-1945” were opened at the Museum of Recent History Celje.
The exhibitions that were created within the project: “Make this land German … Italian … Hungarian … Croatian! The role of occupation borders in antislovenian politics and in the life of Slovene population”, have examined how the occupying borders, barbed wire and minefields affected the lives of people along the border and what consequences they left behind.
First exhibition presents all the border areas of occupation in Slovenia during the Second World War and their characteristics and peculiarities, while the second is oriented much more locally.
Exhibitions will be opened until March 31st 2019.
Check out the photo gallery (click!).
