The Kasarna is a historic building in the Stara Sava

Sava (Jesenice)

Sava, today more commonly known as Stara Sava is a formerly autonomous settlement that is now part of the town and municipality of Jesenice, in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.-History:...

 district of the town of Jesenice, Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

. Formerly a residential block, it is currently an ethnographic museum. It is located at 48 Prešerenova.

History

The Kasarna was built at the end of the 18th century, in Late Baroque style. It received its current name during the Napoleonic wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

, when it served as a barracks for French soldiers

Illyrian provinces

The Illyrian Provinces was an autonomous province of the Napoleonic French Empire on the north and east coasts of the Adriatic Sea between 1809 and 1816. Its capital was established at Laybach...

; afterward, it reverted back to the local ironworking industry and housed workers and their families.

In 2005, the building was thoroughly renovated. Operated by the Upper Sava Museum

Upper Sava Museum Jesenice

The Upper Sava Museum Jesenice is a regional museum based in the town of Jesenice and the neighboring municipality of Kranjska Gora, both in northwestern Slovenia. The museum's name refers to the general area it documents, the upper Sava Dolinka river valley...

, its ethnographic collection includes a reconstructed workers’ flat from the 1930s and 1940s, which presents the residential culture and way of life of the Jesenice working class at that time.

The Kasarna hosts museum workshops aimed toward different age groups. It also houses a small photo gallery, the historic archives of the KID company, and the Jesenice Music School.