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Exhibitions in SEM

Permanent exhibitions

Intangible cultural heritage of Slovenia
from 17.06.2025
Presenting a rich treasure trove of practices, presentations, expressions, knowledge and skills that are inscribed in the national Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Man and Time: From Monday to Eternity
from 02.07.2024
The exhibition shows people's perception of time, their working, leisure and festive time, as well as the influence of time on the way of living in different stages of life and socio-cultural...
Man and Time: The First 100
from 22.06.2023
In its 100 years of operation, the Museum has collected some 40,000 objects of Slovenian and non-European cultural heritage ...
Plečnik's Lectarija
from 02.06.2022
… honey products and candles, craft knowledge and cooperation, friendship, love, and the stories of two families connected by Ljubljana and the Slovene architect Jože Plečnik …
Entrance to the exhibition Between Nature and Culture
from 09.03.2006
The treasure of the museum collections - the Slovene and world culture heritage of everyday and festive life with over 3000 exhibited objects

Temporary exhibitions

The Prehistoric Fir Tree From Čadrg: From Research to Knowledge
from 23.04.2026 to 06.09.2026
The exhibition presents an extraordinary story of the natural science discovery of fir trunks, over 6,000 years old, which were found in 2023 in the silt and mud of Čadrg near Tolmin.
from 15.01.2026 to 29.08.2027
Masquerading is part of everyday life and festive events, and we follow it through the customs of the annual and life cycle.
The special exhibition, organized for this year's Easter celebration at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana, presents ostrich eggs originally decorated by Dr Mariana Andone-Rotaru, from Cluj...

Upcoming

from 29.05.2026 to 27.09.2026
Embroidered garments are one of the most distinctive elements of Ukraine’s clothing heritage. They stand out not only for their design and decorative qualities, but above all as precious symbolic...

Past

THE PHOTOGRAPHER: The photographic heritage of Peter Naglič
from 05.03.2026 to 10.05.2026
The exhibition presents part of the rich photographic legacy of master brushmaker and photographer Peter Naglič, who, as a self-taught artist working with his camera in the interwar period, mastered...
Beauty of Traditions - guest photographic exhibition, Kyrgyz Republic
from 16.10.2025 to 21.10.2025
Guest photographic exhibition, Kyrgyz Republic
The photographic exhibition presents masterpieces of the nomads of Kyrgyzstan and objects of decorative and applied art.
The exhibition Silver Garden, author Emilija Petrauskienė
from 04.10.2025 to 15.02.2026
The Srebrni vrt / Silver Garden exhibition presents the work of the renowned Lithuanian photographer Emilija Petrauskienė, whose series of photographs of plants is based on playing with the past and...
Maksim Gaspari's Postcards
from 27.03.2025 to 07.09.2025
During the preparation for the major temporary 2023 exhibition Maksim Gaspari: Shaping Images of the Nation , we managed to acquire a unique collection of postcards by Maksim Gaspari, which the great...
 Stories of steljniki: The interweaving of common bracken, animals and humans
from 21.02.2025 to 28.09.2025
Steljniki, patches of land characterized by sparsely growing birches and dominated by bracken undergrowth, are a distinctive feature of Bela Krajina.
Pust Mozirski
from 08.02.2025 to 16.03.2025
For the seventh year in a row, we continue with the carnival exhibitions and this year we will present the Mozirje Carnival, a traditional Shrovetide Carnival custom from Mozirje. The first known...