Museum sights in Celje
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Celje Regional Museum
The museum places much emphasis on Celeia and the Counts of Celje, right down to exhibiting 18 of the nobles' skulls in glass cases. (They were taken from the Minorite Church of Mary on Prešernova ulica in 1956, and the one belonging to Ulric is particularly gruesome.) The museum has a dozen rooms, many of them done up in styles from different periods (eg baroque, neoclassical, Biedemeier, Secessionist), painted with various scenes and filled with fine furniture.
Don't miss the 18th-century cabinet with hunting scenes inlaid with ivory, the 20-drawer 'bank' desk with a secret compartment and the neoclassical combined clock and music box that still works. But the museum's…
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Celje Museum of Recent History
Walking eastward along Prešernova ulica from trg Celjskih Knezov, you'll pass the Celje Museum of Recent History in the former town hall building, which was built in 1830. The museum records the story of Celje ('Living in Celje: 1900-2000') from the late 19th century onwards and includes a re-creation of an early 20th-century street complete with tailor, hairdresser, clockmaker and goldsmith.
It also contains the Herman's Den Children's Museum (Otroški Muzej Hermanov Brlog), the first children's museum in Slovenia.
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Herman's Den Children's Museum
The first children's museum in Slovenia. Within the Celje Museum of Recent History.
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