Wine evening at Cmurek Castle, 7. September 2024
We invite you to Cmurek Castle for an unforgettable late summer evening. In the shelter of the castle walls, in one of the most beautiful Renaissance courtyards in Slovenia, a tasting of excellent wines from selected winemakers of Štajerska region will take place. We will enrich the event with an interesting cultural program.
Simon Chang exhibition opening
Simon Chang is a photographer who started photographing patients in psychiatric institutions in 2004 in Prague, where he photographed the Bohnice institution for several years. Between 2018 and 2019, he photographed the Hawler Psychiatric Hospital in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, whose cells are mainly filled with patients suffering from the effects of the recent war devastation. This time, the series of photographs is presented in Cmurek Castle, which operated as a State Asylum for the Mentally and Neurologically Ill between 1956 and 2004.
Revitalisation of Difficult Cultural Heritage (video)
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Museum of Madness, we hosted two events on June 24, 2023 at Cmurek Castle in Trate. The talks aimed at reflecting on the challenges and importance of preserving and revitalizing cultural heritage. Recordings of the talks can now be viewed on our YouTube channel.
EMPACT Workshop / Empathy for Nature
You are kindly invited to attend the two-day art embroidery workshop at the Museum of Madness Trate on Monday and Tues
On Community and Deinstitutionalisation Beyond Gardens and Enclosures. Proceedings of the Museum of Madness
The first volume of the Museum of Madness is here, with academic and professional articles and reflections on what is still missing in the community so that we can talk about solidarity, about community life and so that people who live in institutions because they are disabled and disadvantaged can return from there, and so that others who are still living at home do not have to go there. The articles and reflections are a continuation and a follow-up of the discussions we started at the Alpe Adria Danube Network on Deinstitutionalisation conference in June 2021 at Cmurek Castle in Trate.