The Alpine Dairy Museum

STARA FUŽINA

A glimpse into the lives of shepherds on the Bohinj pastures in an authentic setting.

Discover the tradition of life on the mountain pastures in an authentic setting, through artefacts, photographs and documentary material. The Alpine Dairy Museum enables you to understand the significance of Bohinj’s pastoralism and alpine dairy farming as a way of life and coexistence with nature in the high mountains.

The museum preserves the original cheese-making workshop with two large built-in cheese vats (1,200 litres) and a press for shaping cheese loaves. On display are original cheese-making tools and equipment, as well as items used by the herdsmen in their work on the mountain pastures.

Also on display is a wooden alpine herdsman’s hut, complete with its interior furnishings, from the Zajamniki mountain pasture, dating from 1849.

Alpine herding, whose origins date back to the 13th century, and the associated cheese-making trade have, throughout history, formed the basis of agriculture in Bohinj. A lack of arable land, long winters and short summers meant that the inhabitants were largely engaged in livestock farming (cows, goats, horses and sheep). For a long time, milk and dairy products formed the mainstay of the daily diet.

Permanent exhibition in the museum

Also on display are original items of cheese-making equipment (cheese-making tools and utensils,
milk pails, churns for making butter), and a large cauldron on a wooden stand from the cheese dairies in the Blato mountain pasture. Also on display is a ‘majerska’ basket, equipped with the essentials that the herdsmen carried with them each year when moving to the mountain pastures. Photographs depict the cheese dairies and cheese-making work in the mountain pastures, the transport of cheese down to the valley, and so on.

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(three museums for the price of two)

PRICE LIST FOR 2+1 GROUP COMBINED TICKETS

(three museums for the price of two)

Payment can be made in cash, by purchase order or by card.

Students, school pupils and people aged 65 and over are entitled to a discount upon presentation of appropriate proof.

FREE OF CHARGE:

• Children under 6 years of age. Does not apply to groups
• Winter and summer Mobility Card – Guest of Bohinj
• Journalists, study groups, SMD, ICOM

Valid from 1 January 2018

Information for groups

Advance booking is compulsory for all groups.
• Group rates apply to groups of 10 or more people.
• For every 21 people, one person is admitted free of charge.
• Payment can be made exclusively in cash or by purchase order.
• Visits outside normal opening hours are only possible subject to prior confirmation by Turizem Bohinj.
• Buses may only park in designated bus parking areas.