TECHNICAL MUSEUM OF SLOVENIA - Bistra
Technical Museum of Slovenia
The main collections of the Technical Museum of Slovenia are located at Bistra near Vrhnika, on the southwestern margins of the broad and flat Ljubljana Basin, some 22 km from the nation’s capital. They are housed in what was originally a monastery but later became a grand mansion. Both settlement and manor take their name from the clear karstic springs, which issue forth from under the adjacent wooded hillside. Rebuilt and refashioned on several occasions, Bistra has enjoyed a variety of cultural, political, economic and social roles over the centuries. From 1260 to the dissolution of 1782, it was a Carthusian monastery; following renovation in 1826 Bistra served as manor house, and since 1951 it has been the home to the nation’s Technical Museum.
Reaching its peak of power and influence during the 14th century, Bistra’s monastery was - besides Žiče (1160), Jurklošter (1170) and Pleterje (1407) - one of the four estates of the Carthusian order on Slovene territory.
Throughout the centuries numerous natural disasters, earthquakes and conflagrations afflicted Bistra. Although not a great deal of the original medieval structure survives, save a portion of the little cloister (1449), much of the basic configuration of the original monastery is still apparent. A number of rooms and annexes led off from the little cloister, on the eastern side of which was a single-naved church (demolished in 1808). Beyond the church was the great cloister, around which the monks’ cells and dormitory quarters were arranged, and at its centre was the monastery cemetery. The church, great cloister and cemetery are long gone and in their place today is an open park leading down to the large rectangular pond.
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TECHNICAL MUSEUM OF SLOVENIA
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The main collections of the Technical Museum of Slovenia are located at Bistra near Vrhnika, on the southwestern margins of the broad and flat Ljubljana Basin, some 22 km from the nation’s capital. They are housed in what was originally a monastery but later became a grand mansion. Both settlement and manor take their name from the clear karstic springs, which issue forth from under the adjacent wooded hillside. Rebuilt and refashioned on several occasions, Bistra has enjoyed a variety of cultural, political, economic and social roles over the centuries. From 1260 to the dissolution of 1782, it was a Carthusian monastery; following renovation in 1826 Bistra served as manor house, and since 1951 it has been the home to the nation’s Technical Museum.
Reaching its peak of power and influence during the 14th century, Bistra’s monastery was - besides Žiče (1160), Jurklošter (1170) and Pleterje (1407) - one of the four estates of the Carthusian order on Slovene territory.
Throughout the centuries numerous natural disasters, earthquakes and conflagrations afflicted Bistra. Although not a great deal of the original medieval structure survives, save a portion of the little cloister (1449), much of the basic configuration of the original monastery is still apparent. A number of rooms and annexes led off from the little cloister, on the eastern side of which was a single-naved church (demolished in 1808). Beyond the church was the great cloister, around which the monks’ cells and dormitory quarters were arranged, and at its centre was the monastery cemetery. The church, great cloister and cemetery are long gone and in their place today is an open park leading down to the large rectangular pond.
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TECHNICAL MUSEUM OF SLOVENIA
TMS
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