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panels to models of wartime hospital rooms and schools run by Partisans. There's also a
very good archaeological collection focusing on the Roman settlement of Colatio. It in-
cludes jewellery and other effects taken from a Slavic burial ground at Puščava near
Castle Hill (Grajski Grič) to the west.
Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts
(Koroška Galerija Likovnih Umetnosti; 882 21 31, 884 12 83;
www.glu-sg.si
;
adult/
student & child/family €2/1.50/5; 9am-6pm Tue-Fri, 10am-1pm & 2-5pm Sat & Sun)
The Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, on the 1st floor of the former town hall, counts among
its permanent collection African folk art, bronze sculptures by Franc Berneker
(1874-1932) and naive paintings by Jože Tisnikar (1928-98). Tisnikar is among the most
interesting and original artists in Slovenia, and his obsession with corpses, distorted fig-
ures and oversized insects is at once disturbing and funny. Outside the town hall is the
signer Oskar Kogoj, and something of a symbol for Slovenj Gradec.
GALLERY
Soklič Museum
(Sokličev Muzej; 884 15 05; Trg Svobode 5; by appointment)
The items on display
at the Soklič Museum on the 2nd floor of the presbytery were amassed by Jakob Soklič
(1893-1972), a priest who began squirreling away bits and bobs in the 1930s. Among the
mediocre watercolours and oils of peasant idylls and the umpteen portraits of composer
from nearby Glažuta (an important glass-manufacturing town in the 19th century), local
embroidery, religious artefacts and some 18th-century furniture.
MUSEUM
Church of St Elizabeth
(Cerkev Sv Elizabete; Trg Svobode)
The sombre Church of St Elizabeth was built in 1251
and is the town's oldest structure. Aside from the Romanesque nave and a couple of win-
dows, almost everything here is baroque, including the massive gold altar and pulpit, and
the altar paintings done by local artist Franc Mihael Strauss (1647-1740) and his son
Janez Andrej Strauss (1721-82).
CHURCH
CHURCH
Church of the Holy Spirit
