Museum of National Liberation Maribor

A great museum with a lot of small temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibitions cover the period of WW2 and socialist Yugoslavia. They are quite informative with some unique exhibits. The temporary exhibitions covered some interesting topics: skateboarding, human influence on nature and sustainability, AI and critical thinking, historical ships.

In my opinion, there is a lot of text but also many exhibits! It’s worth visiting to see the past! Good variety! Nice atmosphere and friendly staff!

Amazing museum with a city tour guide.

Interesting museum representing the history of Slovenia through different periods. You can spend there between hour and hour and a half

Absolutely fascinating museum. We had never before heard of the forced removal and genocide of the native Slovenes by the occupying Nazis from Maribor and the surrounding areas (although, when one thinks about it, given that the Reich was only a few miles away, of course this was the fate of the locals). We left educated, but also moved and outraged. We also enjoyed the exhibitions on Maribor life before WW2, under occupation and then within Communist Yugoslavia, and had an interesting discussion with the museum curators. Overall, I recommend this museum strongly to anyone with an interest in history.

I'm not a big of museum. It's not a very big museum. But yea you can find interesting. The guide explained about the history of maribor. There are material from work war. It wasn't any busy at all. We were the only one. So yea I mean it's a museum go if you want. The guide guy was cool tho. I played the piano there and my friends though It was not permissible so they got angry at me but when the guide asked if I wanted to continue my friend said it was him who played the piano🤣 Lol I just stayed quiet lol.

We have enjoyed the museum. However, don't expect to learn much about history of Maribor or Slovenia. We have learnt that Tito had a lot warm conversations with locals during his multiple visits to Maribor and that he was enthusiastically welcomed by locals. We have not learnt anything about his dictatorship or anything bad concerning him. It was almost like reading newspapers from that time. We have learnt about multiple names, dates and events from the 20th century of Maribor history. The museum seems to avoid difficult topics and we had to read Wikipedia to understand any broader context and the background of national conflicts between Germans and Slovenians. Please note that we did not have any guide. Most of the descriptions are in English but it is perfectly possible that we would have a completely different experience if we had booked a tour.

It was awesome. That guy who guided us was really passionate about history of Maribor and it was very very good tour. Thank you.