Idrija Municipal Museum — Attraction in Idrija

This museum is really friendly to English speakers! Many other museums are mostly or partly in English (understandably) but almost everything here is in both languages, meaning you don’t miss much, if anything.

Wonderful local museum that focuses on the history of the city of Idrija, its geology, and history of mercury mining. One of my favorite rooms talked about preserving Slovene culture under Italian occupation. O also really enjoyed the special exhibit about the properties of Mercury and parallels between Idrija and another mercury mining city in Spain. My favorite part though was the exhibit on Idrija Lace! It was very descriptive and showed lots of beautiful examples.

Don’t sleep on the gift shop, which has several informative books and products from a local family...

Certainly a well restored building, pretty. A large part of the exhibition content overlaps with what you would hear at the Topilnica/Smelting plant and the mine Anthony's tunnel/Antonijev rov. However, it does have the added bonus of historical context of the town and areas through the 5 different governments in the 500 years. There is the lace exhibition. The small artisan shop is quite unique.

I was surprised to find the castle's exhibition halls poorly aired, stuffy, and much less cool than I was hoping for given the thickness of...

Mestni muzej Idrija se nahaja v nekdanjem rudniškem gradu. Grad je vse do danes ohranil zgodovinsko ime Gewerkenegg. Zanimivo je, da se je grad uporabljal vedno le za namene rudnika in v njem nikoli ni prebivala fevdalna gospoda. Ravno zato Idrijski grad predstavlja posebnost na slovenskem. Nahaja se na mestu, kjer je včasih stala kapela svetega Ahacija. Grajski kompleks izkazuje masivno renesančno obliko. Okoli gradu lahko se danes občudujemo skalnato strugo hudourniške Nikove. Ta ga je naravno ščitila iz južne in zahodne strani. Danes je na gradu pod okriljem muzeja na voljo več razstav. Osrednja muzejska razstava je posvečena 500 let trajajoči zgodovini rudnika. Prav tako je ena izmed razstav na gradu posvečena znameniti Idrijski čipki. Za obiskovalce je namenjena tudi urejena recepcija z muzejsko trgovino. Na recepciji boste dobili informacije, različne publikacije in prospekte. Mestni muzej Idrija lahko obiščete vsak dan med 9.00...