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The Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia (IPCH) was founded in 1999, with the new law on the protection of cultural heritage.The IPCH comprises seven regional offices, the Restoration Centre and the Preventive Archaeology Centre. They perform public services in the area of the protection and conservation of immovable cultural heritage.

History

Today's territory of Slovenia as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was at the time under Austrian administration. At the beginning since 1850 honorary conservators of the Central Commission for Study and Maintenance of Building Monuments, established in 1850 in Vienna, were responsible for Slovenian lands. In 1911 regional conservation offices got the task of reorganization and decentralization of the Central Commission. Centres for Carinthia, Styria, Crain, Coastal region, and Istria were in Ljubljana, Graz, and Klagenfurt.

In 1913 Monument Office in Ljubljana was founded, which covered the whole Slovenian territories. Dr. France Stele was the first appointed regional conservator, educated in Vienna. After the Second World War Monument office of Slovenia was founded, that extended the coverage on the entire Slovenian territories of the former Yugoslavia. It was active until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1941. After the war the Institute for the Protection and Scientific Study of Cultural Monuments and Natural Heritage of Slovenia was founded in Ljubljana. In 1957 major organizational changes were introduced with a network of intermunicipal and regional institutes. Institutes for Protection of Monuments were founded in the following centres: Maribor (1959); Celje, Kranj and Nova Gorica (1961); Ljubljana (1964); Piran (1969); Novo mesto (1981). In 1981 the Institute was renamed to Institute of Republic of Slovenia for Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage (both domains got separated in 1994). In 1982 a Restoration Centre was founded, which was separated from the Institute. In 1999 a new law on natural and cultural heritage was enacted, which established the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia as it is today.

Programme / mission

The Institute is active in the areas of conservation and restoration. It brings together art historians, archaeologists, architects, ethnologists, sculptors, painters and many other experts, who work in the Institute's seven regional offices located across Slovenia and in the Restoration Centre. Its common goal is to preserve and protect the cultural heritage of Slovenia, and to raise the broader public’s interest in cultural heritage, and to achieve a balance of cultural monuments of the past with the existing natural and cultural environment and new architectural achievements.

The Institute has a variety of administrative and professional duties relating to the protection of immovable cultural heritage and of the movable and living cultural heritage associated with it. It is based on the numerous procedures linked to the direct conservation of heritage and the prevention of damage, as well as to a large number of measures aimed at incorporating heritage into modern life, presenting heritage to the general public and developing awareness of its value.

In 2009 the Institute signed a bilateral agreement on cooperation with Smithsonian Institution, which is the largest institution in the cultural field in the USA as well as the largest Museum complex and Conservation Centre in the World. The cooperation is focused on sharing common interests and knowledge and edifying new specialists.

Publications

In addition to the legally specified tasks, the Institute devotes a great deal of attention to the promotion of cultural heritage. It carries out promotional tasks in the form of lectures, guided tours of monuments, exhibitions, online presentations, pamphlets and the Spomeniškovarstveni razgledi publications series, and in other forms that have become established in contemporary heritage protection. The IPCH has been particularly successful in enhancing the image of cultural heritage promotion in Europe through its series of Days of Cultural Heritage.

Collections

The Register of Immovable Cultural Heritage is an official, computer-supported database of cultural heritage in Slovenia under the responsibility of the state. A separate service at the Ministry of Culture enters all immovable cultural heritage into the register, following a recommendation from the relevant professional service, which is IPCH and its corresponding regional units.

Branches

The Institute comprises two main organisational units: the Cultural Heritage Service' (Služba za kulturno dediščino) and the Conservation Centre (Center za konservatorstvo). The first consists of Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Regional Office Celje, Regional Office Kranj, Regional Office Ljubljana, Regional Office Maribor, Regional Office Nova Gorica, Regional Office Novo Mesto, Regional Office Piran, Regional Office Murska Sobota (not yet founded). The Conservation Centre comprises the Restoration Centre and the Preventive Archaeology Centre (former Institute of Archaeology).

International cooperation

In 2009 the Institute signed a bilateral agreement on cooperation with Smithsonian Institution, which is the largest institution in the cultural field in the USA as well as the largest Museum complex and Conservation Centre in the World. The cooperation is focused on sharing common interests and knowledge and edifying new specialists.

In 2009 the Institute cooperated in the ongoing project Identification of Wood and Dendrocronology. Among partners are also Metropolitan museum of New York and Smithsonian Institution.

In 2006 it took part in the international project European bridge for Sarajevo, that aimed at founding a Restoration Centre at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.

External links

Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia website

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 == History ==
-Today's territory of Slovenia as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was under Austrian administration. At the beginning since 1850 honorary conservators of the ''Central Commission for Study and Maintenance of Building Monuments'', established in 1850 in Vienna, were responsible for Slovenian lands. In 1911 regional conservation offices got the task of reorganization and decentralization of the Central Commission. Centres for Carinthia, Styria, Crain, Coastal region, and Istria were in Ljubljana, Graz, and Klagenfurt.
+Today's territory of Slovenia as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was at the time under Austrian administration. At the beginning since 1850 honorary conservators of the ''Central Commission for Study and Maintenance of Building Monuments'', established in 1850 in Vienna, were responsible for Slovenian lands. In 1911 regional conservation offices got the task of reorganization and decentralization of the Central Commission. Centres for Carinthia, Styria, Crain, Coastal region, and Istria were in Ljubljana, Graz, and Klagenfurt.
 In 1913 ''Monument Office in Ljubljana'' was founded, which covered the whole Slovenian territories. Dr. France Stele was the first appointed regional conservator, educated in Vienna. After the Second World War ''Monument office of Slovenia'' was founded, that extended the coverage on the entire Slovenian territories of the former Yugoslavia. It was active until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1941.

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