Idrija Municipal Museum

Idrija Municipal Museum is a general character museum, widely recognised for its care of technical heritage of Idrija Mercury Mine, the second largest mercury mine in the world, the heritage of hand-knitting Idrija lace and the famous Second World War Partisan Hospital – Franja. We have been rewarded for our 65 years of professional and dedicated work in the field of cultural heritage. In 1997, the museum received the Luigi Michelleti award and was declared the best European museum of industrial and technical heritage.

Technical heritage monuments that the museum manages, among other things, were included in the World Heritage List in 2012 along with other mining heritage of Idrija, and Franja Partisan Hospital received the European Heritage Label in 2015 as the first site in Slovenia. The museum develops its activities in its parent unit in Idrija and a dislocated unit in Cerkno. It manages exceptional monuments of immovable heritage which the Municipality entrusted it to manage, or were eventually brought under its protection.