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Geographical Museum

The museum is kept all the important work issued by the Geographical institute and a number of collections. Map collection encompasses maps for different purposes and at different scales from 16. century onwards. Besides general purpose maps there are also different thematic and topographic maps as well as school wall maps. A great deal of the material is connected to the Slovene territory and the neighbouring countries. Atlas collection encompasses more then two hundred atlases from 17. century onwards. Picture collection comprehends postcards and photographs of Slovene settlements as well as limited number of copperplate printings and lithographies. Among the most work are the first and second edition of Valvasor's Die Ehre des Hertzogthums Crain (Glory of the Duchy of Carniola), Münster edition of Ptolemy's Geography and colour Flojančič map of Carniola. Other collections are a collection of older globes, a collection of statistical data on the Slovenian territory, a collection of material on the development of the geographic profession in Slovenia and the collection of the Triglav glacier. Link to the Geographical Museum.

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Period of creating: since 1946
Caretaker: Primož Gašperič, PhD

29

NOV

17:00

Event
The World of Descartes

November 29, 2023 at 17:00
Conference room, Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU