The permanent exhibition Caution , Electricity ! is about the electrification of Slovenia . The oldest exhibits are a distribution panel and generator from a small hydro-power plant in Jelendol ( at the time Puterhof ) near Tržič . It was built in 1895 by Baron Julius Born , the owner of nearly a third of all woodlands around Tržič , as well as the Puterhof manor . Put on display are also a steam engine and generator from the old municipal power plant in Ljubljana . Starting its operation on 1st January 1898 , it was , at the time , the largest public power plant in what is now Slovenia .
Kids learning about space travel within the temporary exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the landing of a man on the Moon ( 2020 ). Photo : Ursula Osojnik .
The experiments are pretty much the same as those performed by Tesla himself over a hundred years ago . Photo : Ursula Osojnik .
Good old two-phase steam engine and generator . Photo : Dragan Arrigler .
Besides permanent and temporal exhibitions , the museum organizes all sorts of events and programs for young and old ( er ) visitors : from educational programs for preschool , elementary and secondary school children , workshops and guided tours to demonstrations . Of the latter , Nikola Tesla experiments are one of the most popular . It is not common knowledge that this brilliant – and eccentric – inventor spent several months in Maribor in 1878 / 79 where he had a job with an engineering company .
was in the vicinity on Onassis ’ yacht . Winston C . accepted a very small whiskey . Tito had his usual large one . “ Why so small a portion ?” asked Tito . “ You taught me to drink large ones .” “ That was when we both had power ,” said Winston C . “ Now I have none and you still have yours .”
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