Open-air museum or Pleterje Skansen is situated in village Vratno, in the parking place for the Monastery Pleterje. Open-air museum is spread out across a lovely green field. Skansen represents a typical farmyard from this region in the 19 th century. You can see farm house and other buildings with courtyard. Buildings are in the majority in ground floor, wooden and covered with straw. However, there is also showed the living and working in the farmyard. The museum began in the year 1990 with cooperation of the Institute for protection of natural and cultural heritage of the city Novo mesto and Pleterje Monastery. The purpose was that are preserved particular parts of the architecture and with that materials and technics of construction. The first was displaced Kegljevic house and then the other buildings, which were in primary place menaced. All the houses were taken to pieces, transported and once again composed in the present location. Farmyard of the Sentjernejsko polje in Pleterje is part of the nets of the regional museums in the open-air in Slovenia. Museum includes these buildings: Kegljevic house, Banic house, double drying-frame, pigsty, lavatory, floor, garden, small bridge, fountain and drying room for fruit and flax. The central room in Kegljevic house in black kitchen, from where is the entrance to the other places. It originates from the year 1833 and it is equipped with authentic equipment. The fountain was in the past characteristic for the Sentjernej field. In the Banic house are rooms of the manager of the museum and small shop with souvenirs like pottery and ceramics. In the museum we can also see animals. They have a small horse, hens, cock, hare and spoiled piglet.
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Open-Air Museum at the Pleterje Carthusian Monastery
Entrance to the Open-Air Museum
Baniceva hisa House
Baniceva hisa House
Souvenir shop in Baniceva hisa House
Kegljeviceva and Baniceva hisa House
Kegljeviceva hisa House with garden in front
Garden by Kegljeviceva hisa House
Lattices on the window
Thatched roof
Kegljeviceva hisa House - Room
Kegljeviceva hisa House - Black kitchen
Kegljeviceva hisa House - Sewing machine and spinning wheel
Kegljeviceva hisa House - living room with table
Kegljeviceva hisa House - dishes in pantry
Well
Corn-rack and barn
Drying house for fruits and flax
Barn and pigsty
Barn
Cock
Horse
Data
Municipality: ŠENTJERNEJ (7062 population)
Settlements in the municipality:
Šentjernej (1436 population), Gorenje Vrhpolje (341), Cerov Log (220), Orehovica (211), Gorenja Brezovica (201),
Groblje pri Prekopi (201), Mihovica (197), Ostrog (182), Dobravica (174), Dolenja Stara vas (169), Vrh pri Šentjerneju (164), Dolenja Brezovica (152), Šmalčja vas (149), Dolenje Vrhpolje (148), Tolsti Vrh (146), Dolenje Mokro Polje (146), Dolenji Maharovec (135), Dolenje Gradišče pri Šentj. (121), Hrastje (116), Šmarje (113), Mihovo (109), Sela pri Šentjerneju (103), Gorenja Gomila (102), Loka (100), Gorenje Gradišče pri Šentj. (98), Zameško (98), Gorenja Stara vas (97), Drama (96), Roje (96), Ledeča vas (95), Gorenji Maharovec (91), Čadraže (86), Volčkova vas (77), Gruča (76), Vratno (73), Prapreče pri Šentjerneju (73), Vrbovce (72), Veliki Ban (71), Hrvaški Brod (71), Zapuže (65), Polhovica (61), Brezje pri Šentjerneju (60), Pristava pri Šentjerneju (50), Gorenje Mokro Polje (49), Žvabovo (42), Mršeča vas (39), Razdrto (38), Apnenik (33), Pristavica (31), Šentjakob (30), Javorovica (29), Mali Ban (27), Drča (24), Imenje (22), Breška vas (22), Čisti Breg (18), Rakovnik (9), Žerjavin (7)