Kobariski muzej

Kobariški Muzej - darkometer rating : 5 - A multiple-award-winning museum in Kobarid , Slovenia , about World War One and in particular about the Isonzo Front. > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos What there is to see: The museum is housed in an old building which was occupied by an Italian military court during World War One , so in a way it is itself a rare exhibit, given that most of the little town of Kobarid was destroyed in the war. Just outside the entrance are the open-air displays of two exhibits: a medium-calibre field gun and a (very) large-calibre shell. Inside the large foyer are yet more shells of all kinds of sizes as well as crosses from war cemeteries and portrait photos of soldiers of various nations on the wall. At the far end of the foyer is the museum shop, which is also where you pay your admission fee. Also on the ground floor are the rooms for temporary exhibitions as well as the room where the introductory film is screened. This film, which lasts 20 minutes and can be played in a range of languages including English, Italian, German and a few more, provides a good overview of the course of the war on the Isonzo Front and what warfare in the high mountains really meant. The museum's permanent exhibition is on the two floors above and is subdivided into several rooms with different themes. One section is actually not about World War One at all but presents an overview of the history of Kobarid and the region both before and after the war , including the period of forced Italianization in the inter-war years and the occupation by Nazi Germany from 1943 until the end of WWII .