Adela Pukl (M.A.) is a museum adviser and curator at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum. Her research interests focus on carnival masks and festivals, musical instruments, superstition, the use of the castle heritage in Slovenia, Slovenian trademarks, and the intangible cultural heritage (ICH).

She has published articles in Slovenia and abroad:

PUKL, Adela
2025 Time of Shrovetide masks in Slovenia. V: Masks : From ritual to carnival. Slovene ethnographic museum. Str. 83-119. 

JERIN, Anja, PUKL, Adela. 
2025 Music and dance at the intersection of the UNESCO paradigm and museology. V: Sustaining traditional dance as intangible cultural heritage. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC. Str. 275-301.

PUKL, Adela
2025 Kdo se maskira?: vključenost žensk v pustne šege v Sloveniji. V: Nematerijalna kulturna baština u porječju Mure i Drave : zbornik radova prvog međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa Centra za istraživanje Međimurja. Mursko Središće: Centar za istraživanje Međimurja; Čakovec: Ogranak Matice hrvatske u Čakovcu: Muzej Međimurja. Str. 54-73. 

PUKL, Adela 
2021 The importance of preserving the heritage of Slovene brands. V: Srečanja tisočletij = The convergence of millennia : Museoeurope : the collected volume of the symposium. Maribor: Pokrajinski muzej. Str. 290-300.

JERIN, Anja, PUKL, Adela
2020 Shrovetide customs in the Register of the Intagible Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. Ljubljana: Slovenski etnografski muzej.

PUKL, Adela
2019 Pot kurentov od nacionalnega Registra do Unescovega Reprezentativnega seznama nesnovne kulturne dediščine človeštva. V: Nesnovna dediščina med prakso in registri : 15. vzporednice med slovensko in hrvaško etnologijo. Knjižnica Glasnika Slovenskega etnološkega društva, 53. Ljubljana: Slovensko etnološko društvo; Zagreb: Hrvaško etnološko društvo. Str. 60-73.

PUKL, Adela, JERIN, Anja
2018 Who owns intangible cultural heritage? : the role of bearers, experts and the state in the safeguarding of ICH in Slovenia. Memoria media review : intangible cultural heritage, 3, Art. 7.

PUKL, Adela, ŠPIČEK, Miha
2016 Bonboni vseh generacij : 140 let Šumija. Ljubljana: Slovenski etnografski muzej, Žito, Podravka.

PUKL, Adela
2013 Museen und Aberglaube : früher, heute, morgen. V: Kulturtechnik Aberglaube : zwischen Aufklärung und Spiritualität. Edition Kulturwissenschaft, Bd. 19. Bielefeld: Transcript. Str. 453-471.

JERIN, Anja (ur.), PUKL, Adela (ur.), ŽIDOV, Nena (ur.)
2012 Priročnik o nesnovni kulturni dediščini, (Zbirka Priročniki SEM). Ljubljana: Slovenski etnografski muzej.

PUKL, Adela
2012 Etnološki vidik funkcionalne izrabe grajske dediščine na Slovenskem : magistrsko delo. Vrhpolje.

ŽIDOV, Nena, PUKL, Adela.
2012 The Cerkno Lavfarji : a Slovene carnival group. V: Carnival king of Europe II : (2010-12). San Michele dell'Adige: Museo degli usi e costumi della gente Trentina. Str. 84-97.

PUKL, Adela (ur.)
2010 Cockta - pijača vaše in naše mladosti : o dediščini slovenskih blagovnih znamk. Ljubljana: Slovenski etnografski muzej.

She staged different exhibitions:

Masks: From ritual to carnival. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 15 January 2026 – 29 August 2027 (project manager, authors: Adela Pukl, Anja Jerin, Miha Špiček)

Intangible Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 17 June 2025 – (permanent exhibition, authors: Adela Pukl, Anja Jerin)

Okič Shrovetide ploughmen : a good harvest through ploughing. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 8. Februar – 1. March 2021. (curator and author)

Shrovetide custom in Drežniške Ravne, Magozd and Jezerca. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 8. Februar – 1. March 2020. (curator and author)

ŠKOROMATIJA: carnival tradition in Hrušica (Brkini). Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 8. Februar – 10. March 2019. (curator and author)

Sweets of Every Generation: 140 years of the company Šumi. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 17. November 2016 - 30. January 2017. (curators and authors: Adela Pukl and Miha Špiček)

Carnival of crooked mouths : Slovenia's shrovetide heritage: visiting exhibition. Cleveland, Ohio, ZDA:  Slovenian Museum and Archives, 21. Februar - 21. March 2017. (curators and authors: Adela Pukl and Anja Jerin)

Carnival Heritage of Slovenia. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 22. March 2012 - 6. April 2012 (curators and authors: Adela Pukl and Nena Židov)

Cockta, the Drink from our Younger Days: The Heritage of Slovene Brands. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 17. June 2010 - September 2010 (curators and authors: Adela Pukl and Nina Zdravič Polič)

Anew the vines have fruited...: on the wine culture of Slovenia Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, 20. November 2008 - 4. June 2009 (curators and authors: Adela Pukl and Bojana Rogelj Škafar)

She acted as editor in charge of the periodical Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva from 2007 to 2011.

Since 2011, when Slovene Ethnographic Museum took on the role of national coordinator for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, she is taking active part in researching ICH.

In 2018, she was part of the museum team that received Slovenian ICOM award for internationally recognized project SWITCH – Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage.