Recent History Curatorship

The Recent History Curatorship collects and keeps museum material from the Dolenjska area from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

The concept of collecting material used to be different – prior to 1990 the Recent History Curatorship was called the NOB (National Liberation Struggle) and People’s Revolution Department, and the emphasis was on collecting material on the prewar workers’ movement and on the military and political events of 1941–1945. Thus the curatorship keeps 1,200 items and relatively rich photographic documentation with 19,000 photographs, numerous documents, and an extensive collection of Partisan and enemy printed matter, while there is very little other material from the period before and after the Second World War. The curatorship also has its own archive.

For the future a reorganisation of the permanent exhibition is planned, and this should provide a more balanced presentation of events, milestones and progress in Dolenjska from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. In recent years efforts have therefore been under way to collect as much material as possible from the periods before and after the Second World War.

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Chess figures of black and white bread, made in the Castelfranco prison in Italy in 1943 by Dr. Davorin Gros of Novo Mesto

Shirt made of newspaper to protect Partisans from the cold. Made in 1942 in Novo Mesto