Events

21. 06. 2024 Musophile music festival On Friday, 21 June 2024, the longest day of the year was noisily celebrated at Monfort in the company of the Musophile Association and the Portorož Hearing and Speech Communication Centre.


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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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06. 03. 2024 The shipbuilding challenge of reconstructing the sailing ship Galeb Antecedent to the Slovenian Maritime Day, 6 March 2024, master shipbuilders Odilo Simonit and Federico Lenardon presented the details of the highly challenging reconstruction of the museum sailship Galeb in the Monfort Info Center.


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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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