Museum Kos manor
WEDDING NOW AND THEN
Tour of the wedding hall and presentation of painting Gorenjska svatba (1937) by Slovenian painter Maksim Gaspari. Art historian will direct your attention to people’s faces, feelings, aesthetic perception and, after all, to think what a wedding actually is.
Place: Museum Kos Manor Jesenice
Duration: 30-60 min
Age: 4 +
Price: 1,00 € / 1,50 €
A CLOSE LOOK AT THE GALLERY
A lesson with worksheets from the field of the history of art is a programme, accompanying art exhibitions in the Kos Manor Gallery, where students get to know three typical iconographic motifs and individual art techniques.
Place: Museum Kos Manor Jesenice, Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duraation: 60 min
Age: 4 +
Price: 1,00 € – 2,00 €
Iron Foundry Settlement Stara Sava
IRONMAKING GAMES
On the square, you will play games that children from the Kasarna used to play. For now, only three are presented, although you can play different games on the square, and each year we are adding more.
Throwing horseshoes – in the past, when there were no cars, buses or trains, goods used to be transported by horses which had horseshoes. As every now and then horses needed new shoes, old horseshoes remained. Children used to collect them, stick a stick into the ground and competed who could throw more horseshoes onto the stick.
Rolling the wheel – also carts got destroyed and what was left were old wheels of carts and also bicycles. Children used to roll them with the help of a stick and competed who could roll the wheel farther or faster.
Paving a path with bricks – In the period between the two world wars there was a brickyard at Stara Sava. There were damaged and useless bricks everywhere. Children played with them so that they placed bricks in front of them and thus “paved” the path.
Place: Trg Stara Sava in Jesenice
Duration of the programme: to be arranged in advance
Age group: 3 +
Price: EUR 2.00
DRAWING WITH CHARCOAL
First, a film about making coal and a model of charcoal pile are shown. You will get to know different types of trees, ways of gathering timber, how it is used, and then we draw with charcoal.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–18 years
Price: EUR 2.00
MINING TROLL – Perkmandeljc
You will get to know the life and stories of miners and make a mining troll from a wooden stump.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–10 years
Price: EUR 2.00
RECOGNISING MUSEUM OBJECTS
About 20 newer objects for everyday use are mixed with the objects in the Museum worker’s kitchen and you have to find them. During the game, the differences between the old and the new living environment is presented.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum, Museum of Workers’ Culture Jesenice
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–10 years
Price: EUR 1.00
MAKING WORKER’S COFFEE
In the worker’s kitchen, barley grains are roasted on the brick cooker, ground in hand mills and then we make coffee and add milk. You will try a typical worker’s breakfast – »kofe pa krǝh« (coffee and bread).
Place: Museum of Workers’ Culture Jesenice
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3 +
Price: EUR 2.00
WORKER’S T-SHIRT
Children choose a stencil with an ironmaking motif and make a T-shirt with textile paints.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum, Museum of Workers’ Culture Jesenice
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–10 years
Price: EUR 3.50
MAKING CANDLES IN THE SHAPE OF A BLAST FURNACE
In the Sava ironmaking manor you will get to know the operation of a blast furnace. You will pour wax into a mould in the shape of a blast furnace and make a candle, which will burn in the same way as the blast furnace at Stara Sava did for centuries.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–18 years
Price: EUR 2.00
USEFUL OBJECTS MADE OF WIRE
Thousands of kilometres of wire were made in the Jesenice wiredrawing mill. A piece will be used to make pendants, bracelets, earrings and necklaces.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–18 years
Price: EUR 2.50
MINING LAMPS
Visitors get to know the life and work of miners in the Karavanke and see mining tools. They make a mining lamp from glass jars, sand, bark and wire.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–13 years
Price: EUR 2.50
SUNDIAL
Visitors get to know different measuring devices, especially the devices for measuring time. A sundial, which is on the facade of the Manor and also in the Museum logo, is presented. Using cardboard and a wooden stick, we make a sundial which works only during the day and when it is sunny.
Place: Museum of Slovenian Ironmakers
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–18 years
Price: EUR 2.50
MAKING ADVENT WREATHS
The workshop is conducted twice in pre-Christmas time. Advent wreaths are made of natural materials.
Place: Banquet hall in Kolpern in Jesenice
Duration of the programme: 90 min
Age group: 6 +
Price: EUR 7.00
Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
IRONMAKING GAMES
On the square, you will play games that children from the Kasarna used to play. For now, only three are presented, although you can play different games on the square, and each year we are adding more.
Throwing horseshoes – in the past, when there were no cars, buses or trains, goods used to be transported by horses which had horseshoes. As every now and then horses needed new shoes, old horseshoes remained. Children used to collect them, stick a stick into the ground and competed who could throw more horseshoes onto the stick.
Rolling the wheel – also carts got destroyed and what was left were old wheels of carts and also bicycles. Children used to roll them with the help of a stick and competed who could roll the wheel farther or faster.
Paving a path with bricks – In the period between the two world wars there was a brickyard at Stara Sava. There were damaged and useless bricks everywhere. Children played with them so that they placed bricks in front of them and thus “paved” the path.
Place: Trg Stara Sava in Jesenice
Duration of the programme: to be arranged in advance
Age group: 3 +
Price: EUR 2.00
DRAWING WITH CHARCOAL
First, a film about making coal and a model of charcoal pile are shown. You will get to know different types of trees, ways of gathering timber, how it is used, and then we draw with charcoal.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–18 years
Price: EUR 2.00
MINING TROLL – Perkmandeljc
You will get to know the life and stories of miners and make a mining troll from a wooden stump.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–10 years
Price: EUR 2.00
MAKING CANDLES IN THE SHAPE OF A BLAST FURNACE
In the Sava ironmaking manor you will get to know the operation of a blast furnace. You will pour wax into a mould in the shape of a blast furnace and make a candle, which will burn in the same way as the blast furnace at Stara Sava did for centuries.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–18 years
Price: EUR 2.00
USEFUL OBJECTS MADE OF WIRE
Thousands of kilometres of wire were made in the Jesenice wiredrawing mill. A piece will be used to make pendants, bracelets, earrings and necklaces.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–18 years
Price: EUR 2.50
MINING LAMPS
Visitors get to know the life and work of miners in the Karavanke and see mining tools. They make a mining lamp from glass jars, sand, bark and wire.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–13 years
Price: EUR 2.50
SUNDIAL
Visitors get to know different measuring devices, especially the devices for measuring time. A sundial, which is on the facade of the Manor and also in the Museum logo, is presented. Using cardboard and a wooden stick, we make a sundial which works only during the day and when it is sunny.
Place: Museum of Slovenian Ironmakers
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 10–18 years
Price: EUR 2.50
Museum of Workers’ Culture Jesenice
RECOGNISING MUSEUM OBJECTS
About 20 newer objects for everyday use are mixed with the objects in the Museum worker’s kitchen and you have to find them. During the game, the differences between the old and the new living environment is presented.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum, Museum of Workers’ Culture Jesenice
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–10 years
Price: EUR 1.00
MAKING WORKER’S COFFEE
In the worker’s kitchen, barley grains are roasted on the brick cooker, ground in hand mills and then we make coffee and add milk. You will try a typical worker’s breakfast – »kofe pa krǝh« (coffee and bread).
Place: Museum of Workers’ Culture Jesenice
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3 +
Price: EUR 2.00
WORKER’S T-SHIRT
Children choose a stencil with an ironmaking motif and make a T-shirt with textile paints.
Place: Slovenian Ironmaking Museum, Museum of Workers’ Culture Jesenice
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 3–10 years
Price: EUR 3.50
Slovenian Alpine Museum
Mountain fairy-tale
A guided tour of the exhibition with the emphasis on fairy-tale characters, associated with our mountains (žarkžene – fairies, mountain men, trolls, white chamois …). The programme includes looking for a mountain troll, listening to a chamois, game Memory, puppet fairy-tale about the Golden Horn or cartoon Ledenec and workshop with a colouring book or making a horn/chamois/Triglav flower or making a Ledenec scrapbook.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: to be arranged in advance
Age group: 3–8 years
Price: EUR 5.00
An object tells….
Animation with the help of puppet Planinka on the topic of the museum, museum objects and mountaineering equipment. We play the game What is in the bag and get ready to go to the mountains in the “old” and the “new” way. With this equipment, we head towards Triglav, to the world of animals and plants, and to a storm which reaches us when we are in the bivouac.
The programme includes also a workshop when a part of the mountaineering equipment is made of natural bees wax or puzzle Put clothes on Jakec or drawing a giant picture (group work).
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: to be arranged in advance
Age group: 4–11 years
Price: EUR 5.00
Blazes on a mountain path
Slovenia initiated connecting paths. The main theme of our permanent exhibition is a connecting path, marked with blazes and where the visitors solve entertaining tasks and collect stamps. In the programme, we solve exercises in the workbook, get to know the significance and the type of markings on mountain paths and how they were made, maps and information, conveyed by them, first manuals … At the end, the gained knowledge is applied to make a signpost or a blaze and in an entertaining quiz.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: to be arranged in advance
Age group: 4–11 years
Price: EUR 5.00
Bivouac and settlements in the hilly world
In addition to a guided tour of the permanent exhibition with an emphasis on mountain huts and bivouacs, there is a video projection of mountain settlements and various bivouacs. Then, we become architects and try to create our own mountain village, taking into account all the natural and other rules, applying to mountain settlements, or build our own bivouac.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: to be arranged in advance
Age group: 6–18 let
Price: EUR 9.00
Museum – a space of creative inspiration
Like the mountains leave traces in all kinds of art, we are going to indulge in the inspiration, provided by our museum.
A guided tour of the permanent exhibition with added topical animation programmes, which encourage students’ creativity and imagination. Group work (drawing a mountaineering mascot, poem writing, dramatization of a mountain fairy tale, presentation of mountain climbers, presentation of mountain rescue…).
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: to be arranged in advance
Age group: 12–18 years
Price: EUR 5.00
Aljaž as seen by Požganc
To make the ascent easier, our mountain guide Janez Klinar, called Požganc, a house and pub owner from Mojstrana and assistant to our priest Jakob Aljaž, will deliver a real mountaineering snack and lead us through the exhibition with encouraging words. With the stories about some of the museum objects, he will present Jakob Aljaž’s work around Triglav, his significance for the development of mountaineering tourism and for the preservation of the Slovenian character of our mountains. His stories express vigour, wisdom and patriotism of a simple Slovenian man, working as a mountain guide to earn some better living. Visitors can take a photo with Požganc and take a replica of a badge of a certified mountain guide of Slovenian Alpine Association as a souvenir. If you want to experience guiding through the Slovenian Alpine Museum exhibition in a different way, you are invited to join our Triglav guide and main Aljaž’s assistant. Students of the 7th, 8th or 9th grade, secondary school students, students, pensioners, companies to make their excursions make interesting, alpine clubs for strengthening mountaineering tradition, parties who would like to join something pleasant and useful… are all welcome.
He is neither expensive nor cheap as good things have always had their cost.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 60 min
Age group: 12 +
Price: from EUR 5.00
Path to Triglavska Bistrica
Small and big naturalists will be able to explore the hidden treasures of the beautiful nature of the magic Vrata valley. A trek with a Triglav National Park guide from the Museum to the Peričnik waterfall. Or you can choose the tour from the Peričnik waterfall to Vrata. Hikers will get to know the characteristics of the Triglav National Park and Vrata valley. A guided tour of the Museum and a workshop of your choice are included.
The content and activities are adapted to the age groups. The programme is suitable for a full-day natural and social science day, sports day …
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 3 hours
Age group: 9 +
Price: EUR 5.00
With Triglav fairy tales through Slovenian mountaineering history
There are several shepherds’ stories and legends around the grey mountain of Triglav, hidden by the mysteriously silent rocks, dark forest below them and mountains, glittering in the sun. Wandering in places, where you will meet special characters of the villages of Dovje and Mojstrana, local people and mythical beings, who will remove the fairy tale veil of old customs and habits, ideas, sayings and superstitions. On the way, you will be able to discover a pot of gold coins or save a cursed girl. And you will definitely find the treasure in the Museum, where you will get to know mountaineering in an active and entertaining way.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 4 hours
Age group: 9 +
Price: from EUR 8.00
Aljaž’s Tower
We make Aljaž’s Tower. Participants should bring a stone onto which they will place the tower.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 6–14 years
Price: EUR 2.00
Mountain blaze – a museum souvenir
The most known marking on the way is Knafelc blaze, often accompanied by a signpost. The participants make a miniature mountain blaze.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 20 min
Age group: 6–14 years
Price: EUR 2.00
Knafelc blaze
A guided tour of the exhibition with the emphasis on fairy-tale characters, associated with our mountains (žarkžene – fairies, mountain men, trolls, white chamois …). The programme includes looking for a mountain troll, listening to a chamois, game Memory, puppet fairy-tale about the Golden Horn or cartoon Ledenec and workshop with a colouring book or making a horn/chamois/Triglav flower or making a Ledenec scrapbook.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 30 min
Age group: 9–14 years
Price: EUR 2.00
Signpost
Alojzij Knafelc was a versatile person. He was also a photographer and a cartographer: the author of the first Slovenian mountain map of the Julian Alps, first a teacher and then a sketcher at the railway. In addition to the blaze, he invented also a red signpost with white letters. We colour and make a signpost in the shape of a key ring. We also add all the information.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 30-45 min
Age group: 9–14 years
Price: EUR 2.00
Planinko (Mountaineer)
We make our own puppet and direct a puppet performance with Planinko in the main role.
Place: Slovenian Alpine Museum
Duration of the programme: 90 min
Age group: 9–14 years
Price: EUR 2.00
