The Rolling Stones Museum is a

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. It is dedicated to the British rock band

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. The music television programme ''VH1'' proclaimed it in 2013 one of the "10 Truly Insane Music Museums + Shrines".

Background

The origin of the collection goes back to 1964, when Slavko Franca (born 1949 ) bought his first LP of the band. It was the start of the largely extended collection of memorabilia that can be seen in the museum today.Primorske Novice
Slavko Franca je kustos svojega zasebnega muzeja Rolling Stonesov
18 November 2011 His profession as ship chief engineer, enabled him to collect items from all over the world.Dnevnik
"Beatlesi so bili pop, Stonesi so mi najbolj pri srcu"
23 mei 2012 He started his museum at his home in

, a coastal village in the Slovenian part of Istria. Franca is a fan since the band began. Even one of his cats is called ''Paint It Black'', after the song with the same name (1966) of the Rolling Stones. He has travelled to around fifty concerts worldwide to see shows of them. The first one was in

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in Italy. The band, which has given more than 1,700 concerts in 40 countries, has never played in Slovenia. The 50th anniversary in London, since the first concert of the Stones there, was celebrated at the museum by three hundred guests and a concert of

Chris Jagger Christopher Jagger (born 19 December 1947) is an English musician. He is the younger brother of wikt:rockstar, rock star Mick Jagger, frontman for the Rolling Stones. Early life, family and education Jagger was born into a middle-class family ...

, the younger brother of band member Mick. The music television programme ''VH1'' proclaimed the museum in 2013 one of the "10 Truly Insane Music Museums + Shrines."

Collection

The museum houses a collection of around 1,000 artifacts, among which the guitar pick that band member

Keith Richards Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943), often referred to during the 1960s and 1970s as "Keith Richard", is an English musician and songwriter who has achieved international fame as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-princi ...

once threw to Franca during a show in

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. Furthermore, there are oil paintings, posters, photos, records, beer glasses,Wall Street Journal
Fan Hoping to See Rolling Stones In Slovenia Gets No Satisfaction
9 December 2012 T-shirts, fan articles, magazines, newspaper articles, music instruments like a guitar with signatures, and other memorabilia.Slavko Franca, Rolling Stones museum Portoroz, Slovenia
collection
(video)

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