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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

In 2008 the Slovenian government passed a new law on natural and cultural heritage thus structuring the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia as it is today. The Slovenian territory, whether as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, can trace its history of conservation offices concerned with maintaining and restoring the territory's many monuments and buildings of cultural heritage all the way to 1850. More details of this history are revealed in the historical overview article about Slovenian cultural heritage and conservation.

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 7 regional offices located across Slovenia and in the Restoration Centre. The goal of the institute 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. Its work 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.

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 the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia and the existing 7 regional offices of Celje, Kranj, Ljubljana, Maribor, Nova Gorica, Novo Mesto, Piran. A regional office in Murska Sobota is also planned. The Conservation Centre comprises the Restoration Centre and the Preventive Archaeology Centre (the former Institute of Archaeology).

Publications

The institute devotes a great deal of attention to the promotion of cultural heritage in the form of lectures, guided tours of monuments, exhibitions, online presentations, pamphlets and the Spomeniškovarstveni razgledi publications series, as well as other forms of promotion 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 Days of Cultural Heritage. Since 1948 the publication Journal for the Protection of Monuments [Varstvo spomenikov] has been issued, which is the foremost scientific publication of the institute. Another two serial publications are Cultural and Natural Monuments of Slovenia [Kulturni in naravni spomeniki Slovenije], which is a series of guidebooks, and A Series on Highway Archaeology [SAAS - Zbirka arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije].

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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 == 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''. Since 1948 a publication ''Varstvo spomenikov'' ("Journal for the Protection of Monuments") has been issued, which is the foremost scientific publication of the Institute. Another serial two publications are ''Kulturni in naravni spomeniki Slovenije'' ("Cultural and Natural Monuments of Slovenia"), which is a series of guidebooks, and ''SAAS - Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije'' ("A Series on Highway Archeology").
+The institute devotes a great deal of attention to the promotion of cultural heritage in the form of lectures, guided tours of monuments, exhibitions, online presentations, pamphlets and the ''Spomeniškovarstveni razgledi'' publications series, as well as other forms of promotion 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 ''Days of Cultural Heritage''. Since 1948 the publication ''Journal for the Protection of Monuments'' [Varstvo spomenikov] has been issued, which is the foremost scientific publication of the institute. Another two serial publications are ''Cultural and Natural Monuments of Slovenia''
+[Kulturni in naravni spomeniki Slovenije], which is a series of guidebooks, and ''A Series on Highway Archaeology'' [SAAS - Zbirka arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije].
 == International cooperation ==

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