Etnološka zbirka kmečkega orodja Stara Gora

A collection of farming and craft tools in the former school in Stara Gora shows rural life in the Slovenske gorice (Slovenian Hills).

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About the museum

The collection was begun by local resident Jožef Čuš. In 1996, when the windmill at Stara Gora was completed, the idea arose to exhibit these items; the collection of farming and craft tools thus found a new home in the former school opposite the late-Baroque Church of the Holy Spirit (Sveti Duh). The school was built in 1906, and the collection was set up in 1997. In 2009 the objects were catalogued by students of ethnology and cultural anthropology at the University of Ljubljana during a week-long ethnological camp. The collection is now supplemented by Jožef Čuš Jr. and members of the Turistično društvo Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici (Tourist Society).

The collection comprises around a thousand objects: ploughs, harrows, household utensils, tools of crafts, hunting, fishing, arable farming, livestock, viticulture and fruit growing, as well as school equipment and objects linked to customs. The former school building houses a kitchen with an open hearth, a farmhouse parlour, a room for domestic crafts and an archive room. The building is also the venue of the Stara Gora art colony.

Highlights

Around 1,000 farming and craft tools
Kitchen with open hearth and farmhouse parlour
Room for domestic crafts and archive room
Former school from 1906
Windmill at Stara Gora nearby

Permanent exhibition

Etnološka zbirka kmečkega in obrtniškega orodja – Around a thousand objects: ploughs, harrows, craft tools, interior furnishings of farmhouses, household utensils and school equipment.

Founded: 1997
Operated by: Turistično društvo Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici

Admission & discounts

Guided tour of Stara Gora with the museum (approx. 2 hours), adults	€6
Guided tour of Stara Gora with the museum (approx. 2 hours), children, pupils, students	€4

Admission for independent visits to the collection is not published. The Tourist Society gives the price for a guided tour of Stara Gora (approx. 2 hours, including the windmill, the ethnological museum and the Baroque church): adults €6, children, pupils and students €4.