Slovene Ethnographic Museum
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Permanent exhibition of over 3,000 items
The museum organizes educational tours, expert lead tours and public tours.
The Slovene Ethnographic Museum’s permanent exhibition of over 3,000 items presents the treasury of Slovenia’s and the world’s ethnological heritage.
Address: Metelkova ulica 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 300 87 00, Monday CLOSED
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Photo: Blaž Verbič and Tomo Jeseničnik
A museum about people, for people!
About SEM
The Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) is a central museum of ethnology, a museum of dialogue, open, active and hospitable with dedicated public services. As a museum of cultural identities houses some of the most notable Slovene collections on the culture and ways of life in Slovenia since the 19th century, as well as non-European collections. The museum displays thousands of object and artefacts of Slovene and non-European cultural and ethnological heritage.
The museum focuses on the heritage of Slovene traditional and pop culture alongside the cultures of other nations. The museum explores both the material artifacts of everyday life and the intangible heritage (knowledge, values, and creativity) within Slovenia, its diaspora, and beyond. The museum researches, documents, preserves, presents and communicates Slovene and equally important non-European collections in the field of material, social and spiritual culture.
SEM is a museum “about people, for people”, 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.
It is an inclusive museum embedded in the local and global environments, located in an urban cultural centre of Ljubljana, being a part of an inviting museum quarter of Metelkova street. Its wide variety of activities include exhibitions, cultural events, workshops, storytelling events, guided tours and so much more.
Must-see exhibitions: permanent exhibitions Man and Time, Between Nature and Culture, Plečnik’s Lectarija, Intangible cultural heritage of Slovenia; temporary exhibitions Asia in the Heart of Ljubljana: The Life of the Skušek Collection
To do: Visit Museum weaver’s and pottery ateliers, museum shop, and coffee shop.
Source: www.etno-muzej.si