Ethnographic Museum Ljubljana – Slovenia

Ethnographic Museum Ljubljana – Slovenia
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Permanent exhibition of over 3,000 items

The museum organizes educational tours, expert lead tours and public tours in different languages.

The Slovene Ethnographic Museum’s permanent exhibition of over 3,000 items presents the treasury of Slovenia’s and the world’s ethnological heritage.

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Address: Metelkova ulica 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 300 87 00, Monday CLOSED
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What they say about themselves in the Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana

Mission

The Slovenian Ethnographic Museum (SEM) is a museum “about people, for people”, a museum of cultural identities, a space for dialogue between the past and the present, between our own and other cultures, between nature and civilization. SEM is a cultural meeting point and meeting place that strives to promote knowledge and respect for ethnological heritage in society.

Through an annual cycle of exhibitions, programs and other events of Slovenian, European and non-European content, a rich educational program and publications, it presents and communicates knowledge about traditional culture, mass and pop culture in Slovenia and about the cultures of some other peoples of the world; about the material cultural heritage of everyday and festive ways of life and about the intangible heritage of knowledge, values, techniques, wisdom and creativity in the Slovenian ethnic space, in the diaspora and elsewhere.

SEM is the central ethnological museum, the fruit of the maturation of ethnological and anthropological thought in Slovenia. It is a national ethnological museum institution of cultural, scientific, educational and social importance, based on collections from the fields of Slovenian traditional material, social and spiritual culture and on collections from some cultures of the world. SEM is responsible for their protection, preservation, study, documentation and communication.

Ethnographic Museum Ljubljana Collection Policy

The museum researches, documents, preserves, presents and communicates Slovenian and equally important non-European collections in the field of material, social and spiritual culture.

Slovenian collections shed light on the everyday life of Slovenians from the past to the present and are the result of the process of maturing ethnological and anthropological science in Slovenia from the beginning of the 19th century onwards. At the end of the 19th century, the collections were formed on the basis of the local identification of three cultural landscapes (Mediterranean, Alpine and Sub-Pannonian). As such, they were also of great interest to European researchers, who studied the differences and similarities important for the common historical and cultural characteristics of the heritage.

Source: www.etno-muzej.si