002.420.Idrija

Idrija Municipal Museum, Prelovčeva 9, SI-5280 Idrija

Public

Municipality of Idrija, Mestni trg 1, SI-5280 Idrija

510:IDR;EZ-434

Mine, Daily life

The clock’s front side is in the shape of a rectangle, which is extended in a semicircle on the top. The clock face is marked with a thin blue line. The numbers are displayed with larger Roman numerals. It is decorated with a flower pattern, four smaller patterns in the corners and a bigger one in the upper semicircle. It has a wooden housing on the back side and an opening in the middle for hanging the clock on the wall. It has two chains, on which two lead weights are hung. The bigger one has an inscription 1tb and the other, smaller one 2tb.

Length 19 cm, width 12 cm, height 27 cm.

Wood, metal.

The beginning of the 20th century.

Manufacturer information is not known.

In Idrija local dialect, the wall clock was called a “pendlca”. Most of the modest furniture of Idrija Miner’s houses was, almost always, placed in the “house” (living area). The wall clock was usually placed next to the den’s door.

The wall clock is being preserved, secured and presented as important mining heritage of Idrija with exceptional universal values. It is a part of the ethnological collection of Idrija Municipal Museum. Visitors can view it within the permanent museum display exhibition in the Idrija Miner's House. It can also be used for different types of mercury heritage promotions. The items displayed in the Idrija Miner’s House take the visitors to the lives and residential code of mining families in Idrija in housing from the first half of the 20th century.

Idrija.

The Idrija Miner's House, Bazovniška 4 (“hiša” – house).

A conservation procedure was performed on the described object for the needs of the museum exhibition. Therefore, no additional interventions are necessary. Security of the premises is taken care of.

good

Regular seasonal maintenance.

- Inventory Book of the Idrija Municipal Museum.

Mestni muzej Idrija

Miha Kosmač

20. 3. 2018

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