Slovenski etnografski muzej

Camino de Santiago is one of the world’s biggest pilgrimage routes whose history and signifi- cance has a specific place in the world as one of the key landmarks not only of Christianity, but also of modern Europe. The processes that take place on this pilgrimage route certainly deserve major attention by researchers, directed on one hand towards an analysis of the material aspects of Camino, and, on the other hand, towards an analysis of the subjective aspects of pilgrimages, such as identity processes and the phenomenon of personal transfor- mations connected with pilgrimages.

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.