This most beautiful Renaissance building in the town was built between 1580 and 1603 on the southern side of the city walls. At the beginning of the 17th century, it was further embellished by arched hallways, and during the 1926 restoration its aesthetic value was increased by the discovery of the famous Celje ceiling. Since the end of WWII, it accommodates the Celje Regional Museum, which holds permanent and temporary exhibitions. Its cultural-historical exhibition is a walk-through time from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, while the exhibition on Alma M. Karlin enables visitors to learn about this worldwide traveller, writer, and distinguished woman from Celje. 

The Celje Ceiling

One of the main attractions of the Celje Regional Museum is the Celje Ceiling, a sole example of profane painting at the transition from Renaissance to early Baroque. The ceiling is interesting and unique because of the illusionistic painting in tempera technique on canvas: among 11 sections the biggest middle section portrays an illusionistic painted building with pillars extending up towards the cross-shaped sky.