Muzej narodne osvoboditve Maribor

About the museum

The Muzej narodne osvoboditve Maribor (Museum of National Liberation Maribor) began operating as an independent institution on 1 May 1958; it was founded by the Maribor District People’s Committee. Its beginnings go back to 1947, when a collection on the National Liberation Struggle was opened in the Pokrajinski muzej Maribor (Regional Museum Maribor), the first such collection in a complex museum in Slovenia. In content it is a historical museum dealing with the recent history of north-eastern Slovenia.

The museum is housed in a middle-class villa at the corner of Mladinska ulica and Ulica heroja Tomšiča, which the Maribor entrepreneur Avgust Scherbaum had built in the mid-1890s. His father, Karl Scherbaum, was the first in Slovenia to light 36 electric bulbs in his mill, in 1883.

The permanent exhibition traces the history of Maribor in the 20th century: industrial Maribor, the struggles for the northern border, the flourishing of Slovenian Maribor between the world wars and the fate of its citizens during the Second World War. The museum was the first in Slovenia to introduce the post of pedagogical curator. The museum also includes the Fotografski muzej Maribor (Photography Museum Maribor), with a collection of more than 1,100 cameras, and Trafika – muzej za enega.

Highlights

• Permanent exhibition on Maribor in the 20th century
• Exhibition Spomenik mariborski industriji (Monument to Maribor’s Industry)
• Exhibition Vila ob parku (Villa by the Park) on the Scherbaum family
• Photography Museum Maribor with the Bohanec collection
• Trafika – muzej za enega

Permanent exhibitions

• Spomenik mariborski industriji – Industrijski Maribor v 20. stoletju – The exhibition deals with the industrial flourishing of Maribor and north-eastern Slovenia in the 20th century.
• Maribor je naš! – The exhibition shows Maribor as an important border town after the creation of the Yugoslav state.
• Vila ob parku – The exhibition presents the Scherbaum family and the villa in which the museum is housed.

Founded

1958

Operated by

Javni zavod Muzej narodne osvoboditve Maribor

Admission & discounts

The prices shown are for visits to the museum exhibitions; educational programmes have their own prices (e.g. a creative workshop for children and young people €4.50, a night at the museum €30).

Accessibility

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Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Kids’ birthday parties

The museum offers creative workshops for children with their parents, the family package Mini zgodovina, birthday celebrations and a night at the museum. As the first museum in Slovenia, it introduced the post of pedagogical curator.

Getting there & parking

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Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent

Hire of the Scherbaum salon (up to 3 hours): commercial hire €300, non-commercial hire €200, each further hour €150. Hire of the garden for up to 3 hours €250. Hire of the premises of the Photography Museum for up to 3 hours €200.

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