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
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 have remained very much alive and...
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 001 Cultural Centre.
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 features, or even of a particular...
Carnival Festivities Getting Under Way

February 2011
There are many different Shrovetide customs and more than one hundred different types of mask in Slovenia, but the most attractive and the most famous can be seen at the Kurentovanje in Ptuj. This year the carnival is expected to attract some 200,000 people.
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
)
Culture.si
covers information on cultural producers, venues, festivals and support services in Slovenia, all in one place. It encourages international cultural exchange in the fields of arts, culture and heritage. Culture.si offers an up to date address book that can be searched by the region, discipline or type. Culture.si strives to broaden and promote international cultural cooperation, as well as knowledge and recognition of Slovene culture.
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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.


