Vojaski Muzej: Complete with lounging drunk. This was a great museum, apparently the largest collection of military objects outside of public collections. It’s housed within a fort-cum-grain store and is run by an excessively friendly chap who showed us round his whole collection. Outside was a man in uniform (I’m no military expert, it could have been any force, any period). The museum was interesting for its personal nature, focussing on the many wars fought on Slovenian, and Socan Karst soil, and the problems his family had whilst fighting in and struggling through those wars. There were powered miniature planes from the second world war, that apparently held small payloads, a mine complete with in-built revolvers acting as fuses, complete baby gasmasks and old bottles of Ballantine beer. The curator was immensely thorough and proud in his descriptions of his collection, although I was less concerned with the auctions he won them in, than he was. His english was limited, which is no criticism, considering my slovene. It seemed to have a single example of every pistol, gun and rifle of the first and second world war and ended in an eclectic gallery incorporating Tito-era clothing and items, personal items from his family and Hapsburg items of finery. I recommend anyone go there if passing through the region. Oh, I would have taken some pictures inside, but the first thing you saw was a large ideogram of a camera with a line through it, and I was with the owner. It’s very different to having a security guard saying ‘sorry, no pictures’, to having the owner look, well, a bit let down. I’d’ve like to’ve done, though, there’d’ve been some good shots in there. (via maskingtape’s Photos)
