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Slovene Ethnographic Museum is the central Slovenian museum in the field of ethnography.
The first collections were created within the ethnographic department of the Carniola Regional Museum and in 1888, when the collection was first presented to the public, they included only a modest Slovenian part, and a larger non-European part, for which missionaries Friderik Baraga and Ignacij Knoblehar donated items. Franc Pirc, Janez Čebulj and sailors.
The beginning of the independent ethnographic museum was the establishment of the Ethnographic Institute in the National Museum in 1921. The director of the institute and then director of the Royal Ethnographic Museum, which was established in 1923 by separating from the National Museum of Slovenia, was Niko Županič, the first curator since 1924 Stanko Vurnik.
In 1941, the museum was renamed the Ethnographic Museum. After the war, field teams systematically studied and documented material on folk culture and the life of Slovenes in the countryside. In 1964, the museum was renamed the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum for the last time. Due to the lack of space for a permanent exhibition, the basic orientation of the museum was the preparation of occasional thematic exhibitions. Individual collections were exhibited in castles in the vicinity of Ljubljana. In 1997, after many years of working for his own premises, he moved to the former YPA barracks on Metelkova ulica. In 2004, the museum acquired a new exhibition house and also a renovated outdoor museum space. The renovation was designed by Groleger Architects. |
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