We are museum.
It houses our stories and stories of our parents, grandparents, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. These are the stories of our city. If you want to get to know Maribor, take a look at our museum.
About museum
Museums perform the tasks of recoding, documenting, collecting, evaluating, interpreting and researching as well as presenting the items of movable cultural heritage to the public.
By means of its permanent as well as numerous temporary exhibitions, the Museum of National Liberation Maribor has been making an effort to bring the collected 20th and 21st century materials as close to the visitors as possible.
Photograph library
Photographs, negatives, video and audio material.
First museum educator
The museum pedagogic service was introduced in MNOM.
1100 cameras
and 600 pieces of equipment.
Trafika – luck in love
They say that visiting Trafika brings luck in love.
Rich museum collections
Today the Museum boasts interesting and extensive collections, and a particularly extensive photograph library containing many documentary photographs and negatives as well as much video and audio material.
More than 120 running metres of materials
A special feature of the museum is its archive keeping more than 120 running metres of World War II materials.
Museum of National Liberation Maribor was the first one in Slovenia to have introduced the position of museum educator. Working with visitors, museum education team is a pillar of museum activity. A range of programmes is available for young visitors – traditional exhibition tours, creative workshops, a night at the museum, matura exam preparations and lessons. Our extensive pedagogical and andragogical programmes have been drawing growing numbers of visitors to the museum.
In the museum visitors can explore the permanent exhibition to learn about the 20th century Maribor history. They can also visit the industrial Maribor, the period of fighting for the northern Slovenian border, they can learn about General Rudolf Meister, admire Maribor’s flowering in the period between World Wars I and II, and sympathise with the fate of Maribor inhabitants during World War II.
Apart from the permanent exhibition, visitors can choose from numerous temporary exhibitions, which are often developed in co-operation with similar institutions in Slovenia and abroad.
In addition to the main museum we also keep the Maribor Photography Museum at Koroška cesta 19. In the late 1980s, private collectors Maria in Avgust Bohanec donated a collection of 1100 cameras and 600 pieces of equipment to the city of Maribor. In the museum, their collection is being supplemented with cameras of Slovenian photographers. On display in the museum are a part of the Bohanec collection and a review of the history of photography, and there is also a gallery hosting Slovenian and foreign gems of photography.
The latest acquisition of our museum is Trafika – Museum for One. The Trafika by the Main Bridge represents an important part of the history of Maribor, and Drago Jančar also wrote about it in his novel. Danes je Trafika, ki je bila rešena pred prodajo zahvaljujoč Zori A. Jurič in navezavi lokalnega prebivalstva, obnovil pa jo je Marko Novak, muzej, v katerem spoznate zgodovino mesta ob Dravi, trafik in njihovega pomena v preteklosti, navad lokalnega prebivalstva, poklepetate pa lahko tudi s trafikantom Janom. They say that visiting Trafika brings luck in love.