Museum on the Border - Museum Collection Pristava and Escape room

Museum Collection Pristava is one of four locations that form the project Museum on the Border which includes along the state border also Museum Collection Kolodvor in the railway station of Nova Gorica, the Military Watchtower in Vrtojba and the Museum Collection Miren housed in the cemetery building in Miren (currently under renovation).
The exhibition »Na šverc! Smuggling in the Goriška Region after World War II« is located in the former offices of the border crossing in Pristava. Smuggling is an activity that was always present along borders. In Slovenia we call the secret carrying of goods, some more necessary than others, across the border šverc. This expression comes from the German word schwarz, which means bootleg. It refers to the time after World War II, when people used it to somewhat raise their standard of living. The border population smuggled goods from Italy to Slovenia or the then Yugoslavia and the other way round. They most often hid the goods under their clothes or in their clothes, in cars or bicycles; anywhere they assumed the customs officer might not look.
The exhibition also includes an escape room which provides visitors with further information about smuggling as they play the game.

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