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For the true experience of Celje, it pays to leave the picturesque streets of the old town and enter some museums and galleries of Celje and take an artistic and historical walk. Through the exquisite exhibitions, the City of the Counts tells stories from prehistoric times to antiquity, from the heyday of the Counts of Celje to Baroque, from modernism to today’s modern times.
Museum of Recent History Celje
20th century Celje experienced by three generations; the notorious Stari pisker prison (meaning: Old Pot), one of Europe’s most beautiful glass photography studios and the only children's museum...
Center for Contemporary Arts Celje
As one of the most important cultural institutions of this kind in Slovenia, the Center for Contemporary Arts Celje supports the development and promotion of contemporary arts and curating.
Celje Art Salon
The city’s oldest exhibition area welcomes national and international artists to open the social dialogue or question the contemporary art production by directly addressing the public and the vi...
Art District
In Celje, you can get enthralled by myths and legends. However, not all of them are connected to the past. Celje also boasts many living legends of art recognisable in the wider national or inte...
Račka Gallery
The premises located in the historical town centre of Celje where real peep shows used to be performed have now become a stage for Slovenia’s first erotica art gallery.
Water tower
The water tower, sometimes referred to as the Almshouse tower (“Špitalski stolp”), was a part of the mediaeval town walls. One of four mural towers preserved to this day, it was built i...
Gallery of Contemporary Art
A distinguished exhibition area in the Prince’s Mansion hosts major, study-backed, theme-oriented, or retrospective exhibitions of works by domestic and international authors, both contempora...
Alma’s House
There are countless trails leading to the top of the mountain, as once written by Alma M. Karlin, Celje’s writer and world traveller.
Primož Trubar statue
The bust of Primož Trubar, a work by Boris Kalin, is located in the park behind the Church of Saint Maximilian of Celeia. Primož Trubar served as a chaplain and a benefice for a while in this churc...