Slovenski etnografski muzej

The article presents the inventory of the Ethnology Department’s museum collections at the Gorenjska Museum in Kranj as the fi rst step in the preparation of an object catalogue. Such museum documentation helps us in researching and learning about the collected cultural heritage, which derives from the former ways of living in the province of Gorenjska. The most important issue in such an inventory is how to classify museum objects into the individual groups of the Slovene ethnological classifi cation system. The author introduces the reader to the dilemmas and solutions in this activity.

The article is an essay on the theme of the permanent exhibition and its integration in museum reality in the case of the fi rst part of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum’s permanent exhibition – Between Nature and Culture.

The article presents how Slovenia’s health system has been reformed and compares it with that of the former common state. Based on an ethnographic survey among health workers from different health institutions in Slovenia, it analyses some aspects of the reforms, which mainly entail more restricted access to health institutions, privatisation of certain segments of the health system, and changed funding trends.