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Public Institute Ribnica Handicraft Centre
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Established in 2010, the Public Institute Ribnica Handicraft Centre is responsible for managing the Mikl House Gallery at the main Ribnica square, and the Museum of Ribnica (located at the Ribnica Castle). Additionally, the institute runs the Museum Shop (also web-based, selling various wooden-ware and pottery products) and takes care of the many (educational, cultural, and touristic) activities related to handicrafts. The latter is a staple of Ribnica, a town with a long tradition of cottage industries.
The Ribnica Handicraft Centre is located in the renovated manor called Marof, next to the Ribnica Castle.
Basically, the main goal of the institute is the preservation and development of the region's cultural heritage. Furthermore, the institute is developing local tourism programmes, with the centre also acting as the town's tourist information office.
Museum of Madness
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Activities of the association Madness on the border / Wahnsinn an der Grenze, established in 2013, resulted in the foundation of the Museum of Madness in 2014 as a private institute in Trate (northeastern Slovenia). The project was spurred by the sinister presence of the Cmurek Castle, which functioned as an institution for mentally disabled from 1956 till 2004. Nine years after its abandonment the castle became the nexus for a local Slovenian-Austrian initiative focused on de-tabooisation of madness and promotion of de-institutionalisation.
Muzej Lah
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Muzej Lah is a new private museum of contemporary art, opening in 2027. The collectors Mojca and Igor Lah, the owner of the Central Eastern Europe Real Estate Fund (CEEREF), have collected one of the largest private collections in Slovenia. The newly built museum complex was designed by David Chipperfield. The museum is located in the town of Bled close to the Bled Castle and managed by the Fundacija Lah, based in Switzerland.
Association of Slovene Museums
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Several Slovene museums came together in 1970 to establish an informal organisation with the aim of enhancing networking and common objectives and needs. In 1979 the Association of Slovene Museums was formally enrolled in the commercial register as a society, which today operates as a public institution. The Association promotes museums' activities and offers a professional platform for the development of the education, conservation and documentation fields on the international level.
In May 2011 the Association of Slovene Museums organised the first Vesna Fair where 22 Slovene museums and over 50 artists, designers and craftsmen presented museum replicas and other objects of art, craft and design. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture the fair took place in the museum quarter, next to National Museum of Slovenia - Metelkova.
The History and Development of the Museum Sector
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Currently there are over 60 museums registered at the Ministry of Culture and a dozen more form the membership of at the Association of Slovene Museums, the main representative organisation in Slovenia. This propulsive cultural sector has its origins in the 17th century.
KUD Ljud
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KUD Ljud is an independent production organisation established in 2006 as an arts and culture association (Kulturno umetniško društvo – KUD).
KUD Ljud is a group of individuals who believe in the theatre as a "live" art that is in sync with the present times. They conceive their theatre performances as games, rituals or interactive social events, often set it in public spaces, combining different media, genres, styles and techniques.
Kunigunda Regional Multimedia Centre (KRMC)
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Kunigunda Regional Multimedia Centre (KRMC) operates as the programme unit of Velenje Youth Centre (MC Velenje). The Centre organises various intermedia projects, arts education programmes and cultural events, offers free Internet access and usage of information-communication technologies, and hosts the web pages of various non-profit cultural organisations in the region. The Kunigunda.org multimedia regional portal has been developed.
Cirkulacija 2
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Cirkulacija 2 is a transdisciplinary art collective that was founded in 2007 and which is dealing with longer-term practices in the area of contemporary technological art. They use different media approaches (radio, television, video, robots, mechanisms, devices ...), visual elements, and sound for an artistic expression.
Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
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City Museum of Ljubljana, 2006
In 2009 the City Museum of Ljubljana and the City Art Gallery Ljubljana merged into a new public institute called the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML). The merger was part of the Municipality of Ljubljana's cultural development plans for 2008–2011, endorsed in June 2008.
Forum Ljubljana
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Sophie Guyot at Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2014
Rooted in the alternative culture of the 1980s and a successor to the ŠKD Forum (active at the end of the 60s), Forum Ljubljana formally became a non-governmental cultural institution for artistic and cultural production in 1994.
The production company covers various forms of contemporary art, multimedia and new media and consists of several sections, including the multimedia art group Strip Core, known best as the publisher of Stripburger comic magazine (and, of recently, as the organiser of the Lighting Guerrilla Festival). Forum Ljubljana has produced several new media projects, among them being the Nebo Puppet Theatre, which links comics producers, puppeteers and new technologies. Its film production unit that initially produced art video films, has produced a line of awarded long-feature films.