BASE 20 OPEN-AIR MUSEUM
Muzeji in zbirke, Znane stavbe, Pohodne poti, Kulturna dediščina, Spomeniki, Zgodovinska dediščina
Baza 20, 8350 Dolenjske Toplice
Access to the Baza 20 monument area is possible all year round and is overseen by Dolenjska Museum. The exhibitions in barracks #16 and #22 with a video presentation can be viewed by agreement with the guides of Dolenjska Museum. Visitors can contact them at phone numbers 041 315 165, 07 306 60 25 or 07 37 31 111, the e-mail address baza.20@dolenjskimuzej.si and visit their website at https://www.dolenjskimuzej.si/.
Visitors can also contact Tourist Information Centre Dolenjske Toplice for more information.
During World War II the dense forests of Kočevski rog became an ideal hiding spot for the resistance and national liberation movements. Following an Italian offensive in the summer of 1942, the leaders of the resistance forces fled to forested hills above Polhov Gradec, where they decided Kočevski rog would be the location of partisan hospitals, workshops, schools, printing houses and stores. The leadership returned to Rog on April 17th 1943, setting up a major facility with associated barracks called Baza 20 (Base 20), which is the only resistance base in Europe never discovered during the war and is still preserved today as a major tourist attraction in the form of an open-air museum.
