Events

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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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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27. 02. 2024 Fishing at the Slovenian Istria Coast On February 20th 2024, the renovated museum collection on fishing in northwestern Istria, with an emphasis on Piran and its inhabitants, was opened to the public.


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26. 02. 2024 Creating With Clay – Museum’s Creative Workshops During the Winter School Holidays On Wednesday, the 21st of February 2024, the Maritime Museum ‟Sergej Mašera״ Piran organised two ceramic workshops for children and adults.

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01. 02. 2024 Ceramics at the Museum On Saturday, 20 January 2024, the Maritime Museum held a guided tour and a workshop for the participants of the project BalanCed. The event was organised by Cona b.p., a partner of the project BalanCed funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.

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21. 12. 2023 Presentation of the exhibition "Inhabitants of Your Sea" On Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Monfort Exhibition Centre, Obala 8, Portorož


The exhibition of Borut Furlan's underwater photographs.

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21. 12. 2023 Presentation of the project "Utilization of ship technology for sustainable supply of saltpans" On Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Monfort Exhibition Centre, Obala 8, Portorož

The main objective of the project was to investigate the possibility of renovating and revitalizing saltpan houses with modern sustainable technologies, together with preserving and reviving the saltpans’ natural and cultural heritage.


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21. 12. 2023 The presentation of the book by journalist Boris Šuligoj On Friday, 10 November 2023
Monfort Exhibition Centre, Obala 8, Portorož

The book, rich in photographs and illustrations, comprises most diverse and interesting stories about the sea, life, history and Istrian people, written largely in the last 15 years.

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20. 12. 2023 "5 billion cigarette butts" in the Maritime Museum Piran From 25 October to 3 December 2023
Monfort Exhibition Centre, Obala 8, Portorož

The exhibition was prepared by the SMETUMET cultural and ecological society.

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