Tradition
The Charms of Crafts
Slovenians know how to create art out of everything they love. In addition to artists with various skills and crafts that have been handed down from generation to generation they are also successful in many modern art forms accessible to all generations.
Features
The first open-air hayrack museum in the world
July 2012
The hay rack is an important feature of the Slovenian ethnic area and an example of folk architecture worth preserving. Thus, the initiative by the Municipality of Šentrupert in the Dolenjska region to design a ‘land of hay...
Easter Sunday Customs
April 2012
The Easter period has been connected with the liturgy and folk piety, as well as with a barely transparent array of archaic pagan customs, beliefs and superstitions, a feature particularly typical of Slovenia. Therefore, they...
Ljubljana gains a Tobacco Museum
April 2011
Ljubljana has been enriched by yet another cultural development – the doors to the renovated Tobacco Museum, which hosts the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana and Tobačna Ljubljana's museum collection, have opened at the Tobačna...
Easter dishes
April 2011
Some parts of Slovenia and the neighbouring regions are known for their great variety of Easter dishes, many of which are common to all these regions, but some are special, typical for a particular region and its cultural...
Statistics
Public libraries (2009) 59
Professional theatres (2009) 29
Professional orchestras (2009) 19
Museums and exhibition grounds (2009) 170
National budget for culture as % of GDP (2009) 1.8
Source: Statistical Office of the RS
(Slovenia in Figures 2011,
Statistical Yearbook )
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European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012
Slovenian Heritage Collected in Digital Encyclopedia
The encyclopedia includes information on tangible and intangible cultural heritage and natural heritage. So far Slovenian only but lots of photos available.
Ljubljana - Unesco's World Book Capital 2010
From April 2010 to April 2011 - a total of over 300 events took place as part of the Capital programme.