Loka Castle - Skofja Loka Museum

The Skofja Loka Museum is located in Loka Castle in Skofja Loka, which was first mentioned in 1215. The Skofja Loka Museum is a general museum with historical, archaeological, ethnological, cultural-historical, art and natural history collections. It was founded in 1939 and covers the area which for 830 years (973-1803) formed the Loka Estate under the authority of the Freising Bishops of Bavaria. The museum is located in the first flour, in the ground floor and in basement spaces.

In the ground floor we can see Loka Estate, castles, the town, guilds, compatriots and education, furniture from Visoko, Loka's painted bourgeois pottery, Medieval art, altars from Drazgose, gallery and round tower. In the first floor we can see art gallery, black kitchen, lamps, architecture, agriculture, animal husbandry, food, transport, sieve-making, lace-making, linen-making and dyeing, small bread, artificial flowers, recent history collection, natural history collection and archaeological collection.

In the basement spaces are Copies of Gothic frescoes and Gallery of Skofja Loka visual artists of the 20th century.