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| Museum collections and Education
Trail |
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Visiting museum collections in Škocjan
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| 10-minute walk from the
Information Centre |
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Duration: about 30 minutes.
The collections are open from June to September,
from 11:30 to 19:30.
The price is € 3.00 for
adults, € 2.50 for students/retired persons
and € 2.00 for children.
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- The exhibition devoted to the history
of exploring the Škocjan Caves in the Jurjev
barn (includes two cross-section
models of the underground canyon of the Škocjan
Caves and a model of
the central area of the Park)
- Ethnology exhibition
in the J’kopin barn
- Museum collections in the Delez
Homestead, a geological collection of rocks,
a biological
collection and an archaeological collection.
These received the Valvasor Museology Award
in 2006.
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| Geological collection of rocks
at the Delez Homestead. |
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"This geological collection
of Classical Karst rocks covers a remarkable 80
million years of the Earth’s history ... some rocks
include some interesting and important types of
natural stone, which are unique to the Karst. The
stones contain plenty of fossils, most commonly
entire or crushed shells of rudist bivalves, the
Foraminifera ("hole bearers"), limestone
algae, rare corals, the Hydrozoa and some other
fossils."
" Dear visitor! Upon entering
the first room representing the Musja jama
and the second one dedicated to its
surroundings, you might feel a divine power
created through several millennia, from the
prehistory
to the Roman times, by the magnificent contact
between the earthly and the subterranean world
in the village of Škocjan. It still fills us
with enthusiasm, which is why it ranks high
among globally
remarkable places. The exhibition path ends
in the everyday world, in the original rock-carved
home of the Roman Period."
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| Sacrificial rites were performed
in the late Bronze Age. |
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| Finds from the Mušja jama
near Škocjan. In
this 50-metre deep abyss, archaeologists discovered
over 600 metal artefacts from the period between
the 12th and 8th centuries B.C. The settlements
at Škocjan and Gradišče, and especially numerous
burial sites and other wealthy archaeological finds,
testify to the extraordinary significance of this
location in the 1st century B.C. Burnt and broken
objects from the abyss, mostly weapons and animal
bones, provide evidence that sacrificial rites
to gods were performed above the cave in the late
Bronze Age. You will see the oldest text
found in Slovenia. On the upper rim of the bronze
vessel,
there is an engraved inscription in early Venetian
letters .o..s.tiiare.i. |
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Guided tour of the Škocjan Education Trail for
school groups
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| 90 minutes, 2 kilometres,
sport footwear |
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We have organized guided tours
along the trail for groups. The tour has been
specially tailored to school groups, with pupils
receiving work sheets by means of which they
become acquainted with the Park. The tour lasts
around 90 minutes.
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| A glimpse of an excursion
along the Education Trail. |
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Tours of Škocjan Education Trail for individual
guests
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| 50 minutes, 2 kilometres,
sport footwear |
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Individual guests can walk along
this specially designed footpath at any time.
The trail takes you around the natural monuments
Velika and Mala dolina and you can learn about
numerous interesting features and characteristics
of this unique area from the explanatory signs
along the way. About two kilometres long, the
trail takes around fifty minutes to walk and
visit all the museum collections. Museum collections
are open only during the high season (June to
September) and visitors have to pay an admission
fee (one ticket for all three collections).
You can also opt for guided tours along the trail
(in the case of groups, there must be at least
eight adults) available also outside the season.
Such tours need to be pre-arranged at least 14
days in advance. They last around one hour and
fifteen minutes. The price is € 5.00 for individuals
and € 4.00 for retired persons. |
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| Prepared by: Samo
Šturm |
