Prešeren’s Birth House and Žirovnica Path of Cultural Heritage

Museum Content:

• getting to know the birth village of the greatest Slovenian poet,
• guided tour of the birth house and of the permanent exhibition on France Prešeren’s life, work and his most important literary masterpieces,
• discovering the features of a typical farmhouse from the first half of the 19th century, where everything is as it was in Prešeren’s childhood; black kitchen with the traditional bread oven, bedroom with Prešeren’s cradle…,
• understanding the meaning of the cultural holiday, which Slovenes, as the only nation in the world, celebrate as a national holiday,
• broadcasting of the animated film about France Prešeren,
• one of the attractions along the Žirovnica Path of Cultural Heritage.

Location:
Vrba 2
4274 Žirovnica
t +386 4 580 2092
e info@visitzirovnica.si
w visitzirovnica.si

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday: 9am–4pm
Saturdays and Sundays 10am–5pm

Ticket price:
School children: €2
Pre-school children: €1
Adults: €3
Seniors and adult groups (more than 10 people): €2.7

Vsebine:

• guided tour of the exhibition on the life and work of Matija Čop, the first Slovenian linguist, librarian and one of the greatest European scholars,
• insight into the manuscripts, which represent Čop’s life path and contacts with Prešeren, to whom he was a literary mentor and a great friend.
• guided tour of the Ajdna Museum Room; the archaeological site on Mt. Ajdna is considered to be one of the most mysterious late antique sites in Slovenia,
• broadcasting of the light-hearted documentary film titled ‘There is No Fairer Place’ in which the stories of our cultural heritage come to life,
• one of the attractions along the Žirovnica Path of Cultural Heritage.

Location:
Žirovnica 14
4274 Žirovnica
t +386 4 580 15 03
e info@visitzirovnica.si
w visitzirovnica.si

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 8am–11am and 12pm–3pm

Ticket price:
School children: €2
Pre-school children: €1
Adults: €3
Seniors and adult groups (more than 10 people): €2.7

Museum Contents:

• getting to know the Dolenc homestead with objects from Finžgar’s youth; the house with a hayrack and barn represents the rural architecture and lifestyle of poor farmers from the second half of the 19th century,
• guided tour of the museum house and permanent exhibition with records, stories and photographs on Fran Saleški Finžgar, master of folk writing and author of the first Slovenian historical novel Pod svobodnim soncem (Under the Free Sun),
• discovering the old crafts of weaving and tailoring, which Finžgar’s grandfather and father were engaged in,
• one of the attractions along the Žirovnica Path of Cultural Heritage.

Location
Doslovče 15
4274 Žirovnica
t +386 4 580 15 03
e info@visitzirovnica.si
w visitzirovnica.si

Opening hours:
by prior arrangement

Ticket price_
School children: €2
Pre-school children: €1
Adults: €3
Seniors and adult groups (more than 10 people): €2.7

Museum Contents:

• getting to know the life and work of the writer and playwright Janez Jalen; part of the house has been converted into a private museum, hosted by Jalen’s successor, his great-nephew Janez, who lives on the homestead with his family,
• very authentic and interesting rooms of the museum are the still operational black kitchen and the former bedroom, converted into Jalen’s study,
• getting to know Jalen’s most famous novel Bobri (Beavers), which he set in the prehistoric time on our territory, about 2000 years BC, at the end of the stone and beginning of the copper age. The story is based on archaeological discoveries and describes the life of people and their culture at the time,
• one of the attractions along the Žirovnica Path of Cultural Heritage.

Location:
Rodine 10
4274 Žirovnica

t +386 4 580 20 92 / +386 31 787 001
e jalen.roj.hisa@gmail.com

Opening hours:
by prior arrangement

Contents:

• exceptional legacy of Anton Janša, the pioneer of modern beekeeping, who became the first teacher of beekeeping in Imperial Vienna,
• well preserved memorial apiary, a reconstruction of the apiary built almost 300 years ago on this site by Anton Janša’s father,
• discovering the unique Slovenian tradition of painting beehive panels, portraying religious motifs, historical scenes and stories of rural everyday life,
• Anton Janša’s birthday, May 20, was declared World Bee Day in 2018 by the United Nations,
• one of the attractions along the Žirovnica Path of Cultural Heritage.

Location: Breznica, 4274 Žirovnica

Ticket price: free access