Maribor Regional Museum

The Maribor Castle also contains the Maribor Regional Museum, one of the richest collections in Slovenia, which is arranged in 20 rooms. Be advised that at the time of research the museum was undergoing extensive renovations and parts (or all) of the permanent collection may be closed.

On the ground floor there are archaeological, clothing and ethnographic exhibits, including 19th-century beehive panels painted with biblical scenes from the Mislinja and Drava Valleys, models of Štajerska-style hayracks, Kurent costumes and wax ex voto offerings from the area around Ptuj. Upstairs there are rooms devoted to Maribor's history and its guilds and crafts (glassware, wrought ironwork, clock-making), a complete 18th-century pharmacy, and altar paintings and sculptures from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Taking pride of place among the sculptures are the exquisite statues by Jožef Straub (1712-56) taken from the Church of St Joseph in the southwestern suburb of Studenci.