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hartov trg 24)
and
Vidič House
(Vidičeva Hiša; Linhartov trg 3)
.
Beekeeping Museum
(Čebelarski Muzej;
www.muzeji-radovljica.si
;
Linhartov trg 1; adult/child €3/2;
10am-6pm Tue-Sun May-Oct, 8am-3pm Tue, Thu & Fri, 10am-noon & 3-5pm Wed, Sat &
Sun Mar, Apr, Nov & Dec, 8am-3pm Tue-Fri Jan & Feb)
More interesting than it sounds,
this museum takes a closer look at beekeeping in Slovenia. The museum's collection of il-
lustrated beehive panels from the 18th and 19th centuries, a folk art unique to Slovenia, is
the largest in the country. Ask to see the short, instructive video in English.
Bees are still kept in Slovenia for their honey and wax but much more lucrative are
such by-products as pollen, propolis and royal jelly, used as elixirs and in homeopathic
medicine. Propolis is a brownish, waxy substance collected from certain trees by bees and
used to cement or caulk their hives. Royal jelly, so beloved by the European aristocracy of
the 1920s and 1930s and by the Chinese today, is the substance fed to the queen bee by
the workers.
MUSEUM
Šivec House
(Šivčeva Hiša; Linhartov trg 22; adult/child €2/1.50; 10am-1pm & 5-8pm Tue-Sun Jul
& Aug, 10am-1pm & 4-7pm Tue-Sun May, Jun, Sep & Oct, 10am-noon & 4-6pm Tue-Sun
Nov-Apr)
This small museum, in perhaps the most important house on the square, displays
a wood-panelled, late-Gothic drawing room with a beamed ceiling. There is also a
chimney-less 'black kitchen' and an interesting collection of children's book illustrations
by celebrated Slovenian artists.
MUSEUM
Gingerbread Museum
(Lectarski Museum; Linhartov trg 2; admission €1; noon-10pm Wed-Mon)
Opposite
Šivec House, in the cellar of the Gostilna Lectar (
Click here
)
, is a small Gingerbread
Museum that exhibits and demonstrates in living colour the particularly Slovenian art of
lectarstvo
, the making and shaping of honey dough into hearts, figures and so on.
MUSEUM
Parish Church of St Peter
CHURCH
