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PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

ABOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP The Habsburgs, having gained the Trieste territory and access to the sea as early as 1382, started to develop their Navy intensively only after 1815 when already controlling the coastline between ...

THE SLOVENE SEAMEN 1918–1945 After World War I, quite a few young men from the Slovenian ethnic territory served in the Yugoslav and Italian Navies and their merchant navies.

SAINT GEORGE Saint George (275-303) was a Christian soldier - a knight from Cappadocia. The Christian legend about him is based on pagan tradition of the coming of spring to the country.

THE MUSEUM OF SALT MAKING The Museum of Salt-making, situated at the Sečovlje saltpans in the abandoned Fontanigge area along the Giassi Canal, encloses four restored saltpan houses, one of which was intended for ...

MONFORT EXHIBITION GROUND The Monfort Warehouse is, together with the Grando Warehouse, a rare example of a preserved salt warehouse of the former well branched out and economically important salt-making branch of industry.

MUSEUM COLLECTION OF GIUSEPPE TARTINI IN HIS BIRTHPLACE IN PIRAN In 1992, a permanent museum collection – a non-residential unit of the Piran Maritime Museum – was set up in Tartini's house of birth in honour of Giuseppe Tartini (Piran, 8 April 1692 – Padua, 26 February 1770), the violin virtuoso, composer, music theorist and music pedagogue of global fame, undoubtedly the most prominent personality of the town of Piran.

ETHNOLOGICAL COLLECTION "TONA'S HOUSE" AT SV. PETER Tona's House is a typical rustic house from the agrarian part of northwestern Istria, of a fairly old type, from the 19th century or even earlier.

GALEB SAILING BOAT Between 1934 and 1938 world-famous ballet dancers Pia and Pino Mlakar were choreographers of the Zurich Ballet.