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...
from 30.09.2024 to 01.03.2025
Between October 2024 and March 2025, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum is visiting China in the famous Xi'an Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts, Shaanxi Province, with the exhibition Bee Culture and Art of...
Xi'an Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts (China) 
from 10.10.2024 to 01.03.2025
France Marolt (1891–1951) was a researcher, composer and conductor who left a significant mark in many areas of Slovenian research and culture in the first half of the 20th century. Since he used his...
from 18.07.2024 to 19.08.2024
The collection's exciting story began over a hundred years ago, when the Austro-Hungarian naval officer Ivan Skušek Jr returned to Ljubljana from his captivity in China.
Krakovski nasip, Ljubljana 
from 09.05.2024 to 08.09.2024
60th anniversary of the establishment of the Museum of Non-European Cultures in Goričane
from 25.04.2024 to 08.09.2024
personal exhibition by Nina Zdravič
The exhibition presents the Berber arts and crafts as the carriers of memories interwoven with the stories of people and places.
from 28.03.2024 to 19.05.2024
This exhibition presents the presence of plastics in the sea as a result of waste cigarette butts.
from 08.02.2024 to 10.03.2024
For the sixth year in a row, we continue with the carnival exhibitions and this year we will present the Ponikve mačkare, a traditional Shrovetide Carnival custom from Ponikve (Dobrepolje). The...
from 21.11.2023 to 28.01.2024
The exhibition presents all the types of Polish folk Christmas cribs underlining their local context and history.
from 03.12.2023 to 10.12.2023
We present the works of five regional artists who were inspired by and replicated the cult image of Cockta. At the same time, we are displaying a selection of Cockta brand museum objects.
from 14.09.2023 to 19.11.2023
We know that there is a reality beyond material things, because we constantly take part in it.
from 29.06.2023 to 27.08.2023
The exhibition will feature a selection of photographs of Egyptian shrines and tombs along the Nile River, on river islands and in desert oases.
from 08.06.2023 to 16.06.2023
The nine-panel exhibition tells the fascinating life story of the Czech academic sculptor Foit and his wife Irene.
from 10.05.2023 to 17.07.2023
The year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM), the oldest ethnological institution in Slovenia.
Krakovo Embankment (Ljubljana) 
from 30.03.2023 to 25.06.2023
One of the most important bodies of material gathered during the hundred-year history of the SEM consists of the photographs, drawings and notes from what are known as Orel’s teams.
from 08.02.2023 to 26.03.2023
For the fifth year in a row, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum is presenting new museum objects (7 complete Vrbica Shrovetide characters: a white and a black hunter, a pair of white characters, a gypsy...
from 19.01.2023 to 20.08.2023
This is a story of a commodity that has helped to shape the global capitalist system and with it the world we live in. This is a story of cotton.
from 03.12.2022 to 29.01.2023
Fotografska razstava dopolnjuje letošnjo osrednjo razstavo SEM Sveti konji – nebesni jezdeci.
from 05.10.2022 to 20.11.2022
ATAK, a versatile visual artist from Berlin, will present his work at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum with an exhibition dedicated to two comic book heroes, detectives who played an important role in...
from 20.10.2022 to 14.01.2024
Take a look at the rich legacy of the mythological and symbolic meanings of horses, unicorns, centaurs, the winged Pegasus, heavenly riders, and more. The exhibition Sacred Horses – Heavenly Riders...
from 17.05.2022 to 24.07.2022
The Curatorial Department of Folk Art and Pictorial Resources of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum houses a collection of paintings on glass, which currently consists of 633 items.
from 05.05.2022 to 18.09.2022
This involves material produced by three exceptional photographers, contemporaries of Plečnik, which today forms part of the museum's documentation collection.
from 11.02.2022 to 06.03.2022
»It Is Easier to Criticise than to Cook a Tasty Meal ...«
from 08.02.2022 to 13.03.2022
For the forth year in a row, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum presents carnival characters whose masks and outfits the museum bought last year for its museum collection.
from 08.02.2022 to 06.03.2022
The Slovene Ethnographic Museum exhibition OURSELVES AT THE TABLE: from the material to the symbolic is accompanied by an exhibition prepared by the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering (...
from 03.12.2021 to 30.10.2022
from 22.12.2021 to 27.02.2022
Welcome to this exhibition about the table, an object used for numerous purposes and with a thousand meanings.
from 03.12.2021 to 01.03.2022
We present selected toys from the newly arranged collection of around 1,000 toys from the second half of the 20th century.
from 22.10.2021 to 18.08.2024
An exhibition where Slovene folk art meets the global folk art of NSK State.