For nearly forty years Jakob Soklič played a vital role as custodian of movable cultural heritage, and is thus considered to be the first museum worker in Slovenj Gradec.
The Carinthian Regional Museum is the central museum institution in Koroška carrying out the public service of protecting movable cultural heritage in the twelve municipalities of Koroška, and also cooperating with Slovenes in Austrian Carinthia through special programmes. Our mission and collection policies are centred on protecting, collecting, studying, presenting, popularizing and preservingiron industry, mining and other technical heritage, ethnological heritage and local vernacular culture, as well as collecting art and culture-historical materials from all periods. A special emphasis is laid on protecting archaeological heritage, and systematically researching and completing contemporary history collections.