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Temporary exhibitions

Visiting exhibitions

Polish Natvity Scenes
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.

Temporary exhibitions

Sacred Horses - Heavenly Riders
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...
Folk art between home and the world: the SEM’s and IRWIN’s NSK Folk Art collections
from 22.10.2021 to 31.12.2023
An exhibition where Slovene folk art meets the global folk art of NSK State.

Upcoming

Cockta 70 years
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.

Past

Photo: Otto Wunderlich, In the tavern, Arenas de San Pedro (Ávila), 1921-1922 (detail).
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.
The heritage of ancient Egypt: Photo archive of Günther & Ingrid Hölbl
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.
The life story of František Vladimir Foit
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.
Field research by Orel’s teams
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.
Shrovetide custom in Vrbica
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...
White Gold: Stories of Cotton
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.