Events

26. 08. 2024 The Piran Lighthouse - 500 lighthouses interconnected via radio waves From 16 and 19 August 2024, the Maritime Museum "Sergej Mašera" Piran was glad and proud to host in its new dislocated unit, on the premises of the former lighthouse keeper's residence, where an exhibition about the Piran lighthouse is currently on display, radio amateurs who interconnect with the world.


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26. 07. 2024 Childhood in the Salt-Pans – Salt Pans Cuisine 2024 On Wednesday the 24th of July 2024 the third event of this year's edition of the culinary heritage project “The Salt Pans Cuisine” took place at the Museum of Salt-making in Fontanigge at the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park.


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05. 07. 2024 Salt Pans Cuisine 2024 – The Present Day Salt-makers and their Marenda On Wednesday 26 June 2024, the second event of this year's edition of the culinary heritage project “The Salt Pans Cuisine” took place at the Museum of Salt-making at Fontanigge in the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park.

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31. 05. 2024 Saltpans Cuisine 2024 – The Bread

23. 04. 2024 Workshops on painting fans with East Asian motifs On Friday, 5 April 2024, prior to the end of the exhibition A Fragment of the Far East, the Maritime Museum Piran organized, in cooperation with the Department of Asian Studies of the Faculty of Arts at  Ljubljana University, two workshops on the topic of fan painting with East Asian motifs.

The workshops were led by the illustrator Lili Saje Wang and the Japanologist and ethnologist Dr Nataša Visočnik Gerželj from the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana University.


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10. 04. 2024 An evening dedicated to the batana and lampara boats  On Wednesday, 10 April 2024, the Info Center of the Maritime Museum at Montfort hosted a highly interesting evening with two events dedicated to the local boats.


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28. 03. 2024 The world is beautiful! In March 2024, the Monfort Exhibition Centre was bustling with creative energy.
The already eleventh ArtDownUP took place here, this time under the motto "The world is beautiful!".


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27. 03. 2024 »Strip jam« On Wednesday, 27 March 2024, the Maritime Museum Piran hosted the workshop "Strip jam" with Vasko Vidmar at the Monfort Info Centre in Portorož.


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25. 03. 2024 International Symposium Japanese Embroidered Folding Screens: Problems in Restoration From 19 to 21 March 2024, an international symposium with the workshop Japanese Embroidered Folding Screens: Difficulties in Restoration was hosted by the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum and the Celje Provincial Museum, in which the distinguished restorer Howard Sutcliffe and the Director of the River Region Costume and Textile Conservation in Arley, Alabama, and in Nashville, Tennessee (USA), demonstrated the restoration procedures on the Japanese folding screen from the legacy of the Grand Admiral Anton Haus (1851--1917), which is held by the Maritime Museum Piran.


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16. 03. 2024 Presentation of the new edition of the book by the historian Darja Mihelič about an affluent citizen of Piran On Friday, 16 February 2024, the presentation of the new edition of the book by the historian Darja Mihelič, titled The Horizon of the Spirit of the Istrians of the Modern Era - Inventory of the Legacy of an Affluent Citizen of Piran (1599), took place in the Infocentre of the Monfort Exhibition Centre, organized by the Koper Regional Archives. The book was published by the Annales Publishing House of the Historical Society for the Southern Primorska Region and the Irris Institute and brings new insights on everyday life, movable and immovable property, and the education of some prominent Piran citizens of the second half of the 16th century, particularly Almerigo Petroni (died in 1599).


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