Muzej Žiri

About the museum

The history of the Žiri museum goes back to the early 1970s. In 1970 a sub-committee of the Muzejsko društvo Škofja Loka (Škofja Loka Museum Society) was founded in Žiri, which on 26 December 1975 became the independent Muzejsko društvo Žiri. The society looks after the tangible and intangible heritage of Žiri, collects objects, keeps them and presents them in exhibitions.

The museum is housed in the Stara šola (Kulturno središče Žiri, Žiri Cultural Centre) at Tabor 2. The building was constructed as a farm manor; it took on its present appearance in the 18th century, and in 1864 the municipality bought it and converted it into a school. In 1999, on the society’s initiative, it was declared a cultural monument. After renovation, several permanent exhibitions are on the first floor.

The permanent exhibitions are Žiri in Žirovci skozi čas (Žiri and Its People through Time), Čevljarstvo na Žirovskem (Shoemaking in the Žiri Area), Žirovski slikarji (Žiri Painters) and the exhibition on the heritage of the Rapallo border, Pozdravljeni, ljubitelji utrdb! (Welcome, Lovers of Fortifications!). The museum keeps collections of objects, photographs, audiovisual material and local-history publications.

Highlights

• Exhibition Žiri in Žirovci skozi čas, from the earliest traces to the Second World War
• Exhibition Čevljarstvo na Žirovskem (Shoemaking in the Žiri Area)
• Works by Žiri painters, among them Franjo Kopač
• Heritage of the Rapallo border and the Rupnik Line
• Old school, Baroque building and cultural monument

Permanent exhibitions

• Žiri in Žirovci skozi čas – The basic exhibition presents the history of Žiri from the earliest traces of human presence to the Second World War, including life under the Škofja Loka lordship, societies, schooling, crafts, enterprise and religion.
• Čevljarstvo na Žirovskem – The exhibition presents shoemaking in the Žiri area over time, in two exhibition rooms and the staircase hall of the first floor.
• Žirovski slikarji – In the multi-purpose hall on the first floor the works of Žiri painters, among them Franjo Kopač, are displayed.

Founded

1970

Operated by

Muzejsko društvo Žiri

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