Ethnology Curatorship
The Ethnology Curatorship collects, keeps, studies and presents to the public the
ethnological movable heritage from the narrower region of Dolenjska. The majority of the
material dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, while there are also some objects from the
18th century.
Work in the Ethnology Curatorship only properly began with the employment of the first
curator in 1959, although individual ethnological items had already been collected for the
Museum earlier.
Since the 1980s the collection has had both repository and exhibition space in Novo Mesto
in the building known as Ropasova Hiša, within the Dolenjska Museum buildings complex at
Mej vrti 2. The building is a former two-storey townhouse built at the beginning of the
19th century on the approximate site of the former Church of St. George, and its name was
acquired from the last private owners, the Ropas family.
The ethnological material, which was kept in the form of a repository, was presented to the
public through temporary thematic exhibitions. The first permanent ethnological exhibition
at the Dolenjska Museum was opened only in 1986 in the building at Mej vrti 2.
In addition to the material and collections presented in the permanent ethnological
exhibition, this department also keeps other thematic collections of objects: agricultural
implements and machinery, tools and products from various handicraft and artisanal trades,
household furnishings, textiles and jewellery, accessories for hunting, dormouse hunting
and fishing, produce gathering, bee-keeping, animal and horse breeding, toys, means of
transport, sports accessories, items from local customs, a collection of postcards and
likenesses, folk and official measuring devices, folk art objects and more.
The ethnological material is also presented in temporary exhibitions and accompanying
catalogues and brochures.
The Ethnology Curatorship possesses around 3,700 objects, 5,000 slides, 12,000 negatives
and 11,000 prints.
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 French soldier, polychrome painted wooden beehive panel, beginning of the 20th century
Decorated bound candle, 19th century
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