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05. 02. 2021 Notice to museum visitors The Maritime Museum Sergej Mašera Piran wishes to inform you that it will have its doors open to individual visitors and families, in compliance with the regulations, on the national Culture Holiday on Monday, 8 February 2021, between 10 am and 2 pm.
The museum collections and the visiting exhibition The White Gold of Cervia in the Gabrielli Palace in Piran will be on display free of charge on the national Culture Day. 
The museum will remain open with a temporary shortened schedule until the restrictions of movement between municipalities and statistical regions are lifted, when its other nonresidential units will also open their doors.

15. 01. 2021 Artefacts from the Maritime Museum Sergej Mašera Piran on the website of the East Asian Collection in Slovenia The Maritime Museum Sergej Mašera Piran is taking part in the project East Asian Collection in Slovenia – Inclusion of Slovenia in the global exchange of artefacts and ideas with East Asia. The project is carried out by the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana in association with the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum and the Science and Research Centre Koper. The National Museum of Slovenia and the Provincial Museum of Celje are also engaged in its implementation. 

04. 01. 2021 The sailboat Galeb in renovation The renovation of the sailboat Galeb, that was donated to the Maritime Museum "Sergej Mašera" Piran in 1994 by two famous ballet dancers and choreographers Pino and Pia Mlakar, will take place in the shipyard AA Customs in Monfalcone, Italy. The renovation is led by two shipbuilders: Odilo Simonit and Paolo Škabar.

22. 12. 2020 New Year's Greetings

18. 12. 2020 Coming soon The new book of the Maritime Museum "Sergej Mašera" Piran, written by dr. Nadja Terčon with the title "Sava & Jolanda, The First Slovenian and Yugoslav Sailors, Women and the Sea, and the Entry of Slovenian Women into the Male World of the Maritime Profession".

17. 12. 2020 The ”Galeb” museum sailboat will finally be renovated On Tuesday, 15 December 2020, our sailboat “Galeb” was towed with the aid of Janez Šabec and his wooden sailboat "Stari maček" to Marina Portorož, where it was lifted, thoroughly washed and loaded on a truck. The Galeb museum sailboat, a cutter M6, donated to the Maritime Museum Piran by our famous ballet dancers and choreographers Pino and Pia Mlakar in 1994, was thereupon transported to Monfalcone in Italy, where it is to be restored and provided with navigation safety by shipbuilding masters at the Alto Adriatico Custom Shipyard.

04. 12. 2020 Ahead to the past The Maritime Museum "Sergej Mašera" Piran is participating in an online series of events of Slovene Museums with the title "Ahead to the past: Festive Museum", which will take place from 7th December 2020 to 13th December 2020.

03. 12. 2020 This Joyful Day of Culture This year we celebrate This Joyful Day of Culture a little beat differently.
Although the doors of our museum remain closed, we invite you to follow us on the social networks Facebook and Instagram, where we post news and interesting facts about our museum collections. You can watch video contents on the Youtube channel and explore our website.
We wish you a beautiful Culture Day!

23. 10. 2020 Notice to visitors Dear visitors!

We would like to inform you that the museum collections of the Maritime museum of Piran are currently closed, due to the anti-pandemic measures. You can follow the museum's activities on this website and FB. Thank you for understanding!

14. 10. 2020 Occasional exhibition "Stone by stone... Roman architecture of northwestern Istria" in Zagreb On the occasion of the International White Safety Cane Day, the Zagreb City Museum  and the Maritime Museum "Sergej Mašera" Piran invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Stone by Stone ... Roman Architecture of Northwestern Istria", which will be held at the Zagreb City Museum on October 15, 2020 at 6 p.m.