Events
In our museums visitors can attend several workshops and demonstrations, through which they can truly experience the technical spirit of the past. All our events you will find in Event calendar.
With prior arrangement, we can organize workshops and demonstrations for groups outside of our schedule.
The experiments of inventor Nikola Tesla are presented by the demonstrator on functioning exhibits. They show a very interesting part of the Electrical Engineering collection. Visitors are initially presented with a short biography of Nikola Tesla and then with the functioning of the following devices: • direct current engine, • demonstration model of three-phase electromotor, [...]
Every third Sunday of the month we invite seniors at 15.00 to the Museum of Post and Telecommunications to a guided tour of the museum's collections. We will present you the history of post and telecommunication devices and of the castle of Polhov Gradec. We will share stories about the time when we eagerly waited [...]
Visitors have to announce their participation in the workshop by Wednesday, December 11th! The mentor teaches the participants the entire procedure of traditional bread baking, from dough kneading to baking bread in a special bread oven. Every participant takes his or hers delicious loaf of bread home. Price: 20,00 €/person. It is obligatory to announce [...]
On Sunday, November 24th, we would like to invite families to the Technical Museum of Slovenia in Bistra near Vrhnika from 14.00 to 18.00 to a childrens' workshop ''Mysterious Moon''. The workshop is suitable for children of 9 years of age and older. Younger children may participate with the help of adults. You may join the workshop by [...]
On November 26th and 27th from 9:00 to 13:00 we would like to invite you to the Museum of post and telecommunications in Polhov Gradec to the Graphic design days. Students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering of the University in Ljubljana will present you with different printing techniques, their studies and their [...]
On Sunday, December 1st, we would like to invite you to the Technical museum of Slovenia in Bistra near Vrhnika from 13.00 to 18.00 to the demonstration of horseshoe-forging. A blacksmith will show the visitors the entire procedure of horseshoe making. First he will heat a bar of iron in a soft-coal fireplace, and raise [...]
On Monday, 3rd December 2019, we invite you to visit the Technical museum of Slovenia in Bistra near Vrhnika and the Museum of post and telecommunications in Polhov Gradec. The Technical museum of Slovenia will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m and the Museum of post and telecommunications will be open from 10 a.m. [...]
On Saturday, December 7th, we would like to invite you to the Technical museum of Slovenia in Bistra near Vrhnika to participate in our Woodcutting workshop. You will learn how to draw a motif, then you will cut it out of wood and at the end you will smooth out the surface of you product and wax [...]
On Sunday, December 8th, we would like to invite you at 11:00 to the Technical Museum of Slovenia in Bistra near Vrhnika to a guided tour of our temporary exhibition East of Eden – Jugoton 1947–1991. The exhibition was transferred to our museum from Zagreb, Croatia, with cooperation of the artistic organization Kultura umetnosti and [...]
Every second Sunday of the month we invite you at 15:00 to the Museum of Post and Telecommunications in Polhov Gradec for a guided tour for families. Children, parents, grandfathers and grandmothers will discover the history of post and telecommunications in a fun, playful and informative way. We will present the time, when we are eagerly waited [...]
The experiments of the famous inventor Nikola Tesla are presented by the demonstrator on functioning exhibits. They show a very interesting part of the Electrical Engineering collection. Visitors are initially presented with a short biography of Nikola Tesla and then with the functioning of the following devices: • direct current engine, • demonstration model of [...]