Zasavski muzej Trbovlje

About the museum

The Zasavski muzej Trbovlje has operated as an inter-municipal museum of recent history only since 1990. From 1951 it operated as a museum of the National Liberation Struggle and People's Revolution, called the Revirski muzej ljudske revolucije (Mining District Museum of the People's Revolution). Today it covers the municipalities of Trbovlje, Hrastnik and Zagorje ob Savi, which are linked by a shared mining background.

The basis of the exhibitions is the permanent exhibition Srečno… črne doline in the museum building in Trbovlje. Combining classical and ambient display, it covers ten main themes that run through the development of the three Zasavje towns over the last two hundred years: settlement and geological structure, mining, transport, leisure and societies, the social situation of workers, industry, and both world wars. From time to time the permanent art collections of the sculptor Stojan Batič and the painter Leopold Hočevar are also on display; they created extensive work on the theme of mining and the industrial landscape.

Not far from the museum, in the mining colony of Njiva, a miner's flat has been set up with two displays: a flat from the 1920s (opened 1984) and a flat from the 1960s (opened 2003). The museum also manages collections in Hrastnik and the Spominska hiša Ustanovnega kongresa KPS (memorial house of the founding congress of the Communist Party of Slovenia) at Čebine.

Highlights

• Permanent exhibition Srečno… črne doline on two hundred years of mining and industry in Zasavje
• Miner's flat at Njiva with original furnishings from the 1920s and 1960s
• Art collection of sculptor Stojan Batič on the theme of mining
• Collection of works by painter Leopold Hočevar
• Collection in Hrastnik with the exhibition Lutke in lutkarji (Dolls and Puppeteers)

Permanent exhibitions

• Srečno… črne doline – Permanent exhibition on two hundred years of development in Zagorje, Trbovlje and Hrastnik, with coal and mining as the common thread.
• Rudarsko stanovanje na Njivi – Two ambient displays of a miner's flat, from the 1920s and 1960s, with mostly original furnishings.
• Likovni zbirki Stojana Batiča in Leopolda Hočevarja – Collections of a sculptor and a painter with works on mining and the industrial landscape.

Founded

1951

Operated by

Zasavski muzej Trbovlje (medobčinski muzej)

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Free admission is also available for the unemployed, journalists and holders of SMD and ICOM cards. Payment is possible only in cash. Price list valid from 8 September 2025.

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