We visited the Beekeeping Museum near Lake Bled in Slovenia in 2007.
There is a tradition in this country to hand paint individual pictures for each colony's identification.
This BeeHouse as it is called is the original one used by Anton Janscha 1734 - 1773.
Janscha used wooden rectangular boxes of about 45 litres volume. A rear end board was used to slide in and out to reduce the space internally for small swarms.
Usually there were 30 such hives in a BeeHouse with entrances to work from inside the building and each colony having a different pattern entrance on the exterior.
Hive entrances in Slovenia today are usually just bright single primary colours.
Janscha's fame arose from the following: