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.
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Loka Castle - Skofja Loka Museum
Medieval art
Paintings on religious themes from the Baroque period
Donation deed from year 973
Coat-of-arms of Skofja Loka with the Black
Loka estate and the town
Votive painting of Skofja loka in fire, 1698
Jug and vase
Guilds - Shoemaking workshop
Loka's painted bourgeois pottery
Kalan's furniture from Visoko
Cradle of the Tavcar family donated by the royal family of Karadordevi...
Compatriots and education - Ivan Tavcar
Copy of the fresco Holy Sunday from Crngrob (Workshop of Janez of Ljub...
Female and male costume
Art gallery
Statue of Saint Michael in the Poljane church
Black kitchen
Dishes and coffee mill
Lamps
Architecture
Agriculture, animal husbandry, food, transport
Sledge
Sieve-making, lace-making
Spinning wheel, stove, etc.
Hat-making, comb-making
Walking stick and decorative combs
Linen-making and dyeing
Small bread, artificial flowers
Crowns for young Ursulines
Models for artificial flowers
Fancy honey bread
Recent history collection
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf and the German combat equipment
Natural history collection
Archaelogical collection
Kevderc and Lubnik Cave - Tools
Basement Spaces - Former yard
Basement Spaces - Slope to the yard
Copies of Gothic frescoes
Glalery of Skofja Loka visual artists of the 20th century
Data
Municipality: ŠKOFJA LOKA (22919 population)
Settlements in the municipality:
Škofja Loka (11611 population), Sv. Duh (1093), Virmaše (847), Stara Loka (787), Reteče (655),
Puštal (651), Godešič (641), Zminec (543), Gorenja vas - Reteče (381), Vešter (247), Dorfarje (220), Trata (218), Ševlje (216), Log nad Škofjo Loko (213), Brode (202), Grenc (199), Binkelj (186), Bodovlje (185), Bukovica (183), Sv. Barbara (166), Spodnja Luša (165), Suha (161), Sv. Andrej (157), Na Logu (154), Vincarje (152), Forme (151), Pungert (149), Bukovščica (140), Draga (130), Praprotno (127), Sv. Lenart (124), Zgornja Luša (120), Virlog (115), Gabrk (107), Hosta (104), Križna Gora (95), Stirpnik (94), Trnje (85), Papirnica (82), Gosteče (82), Sopotnica (82), Knape (79), Pevno (77), Gabrška Gora (72), Sv. Ožbolt (71), Strmica (65), Rovte v Selški Dolini (57), Sv. Tomaž (52), Bukov Vrh nad Visokim (49), Breznica pod Lubnikom (48), Crngrob (45), Lipica (39), Podpulfrca (39), Kovski Vrh (32), Sv. Petra Hrib (31), Pozirno (31), Sveti Florijan nad Škofjo Loko (30), Visoko pri Poljanah (26), Moškrin (22), Gabrovo (21), Valterski Vrh (8), Staniše (5)