Category: Buildings and Parks

The concert hall, opened in 1905 in a hotel whose modern architecture surpassed all others in the region – the present-day Grand Hotel Union –, became an important musical venue at the beginning of the 20th century. The Grand Hotel Union concert hall, today located in a cultural and congress centre that enjoys the status

The present-day Union Hall is the only surviving building constituting the former Goetz Brewery (named after Tomaž Goetz from Württemberg), the leading Maribor brewery from the 1860s until World War I. Experiencing strong growth, the establishment employed the most advanced brewing technology in all of the Slovenian Štajerska (Styria) region. The brewery’s main building, Goetz

For over three decades, Trubar’s Homestead has been the main memorial site dedicated to Primož Trubar. The Homestead includes a memorial house that affords an informative insight into his work and historical importance. Trubar’s Homestead features a memorial house, a mill, a water-driven sawmill, an inn with a souvenir shop and a gallery, as well

The Library of the Department of Musicology is the central Slovenian specialist library of musicology. Formed in 1961 concurrently with the establishment of the Department of Musicology, it opened a year later, in the Faculty of Arts’ first academic year. Today, it is organisationally linked with the University of Ljubljana Central Humanities Library, which incorporates

The Institute of Musicology is one of the eighteen research institutes of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Founded in 1980, the Institute is the only independent research group specialising in musicology in Slovenia, primarily dedicated to studying early musical heritage in the geographical area of the present-day Republic of

The history of the building – which has housed a public institute, the Franc Bernik Cultural Centre Domžale, and the Domžale Music School since its restoration in 1998 – dates back more than 100 years. Today, the Cultural Centre bears the name of a Domžale-based priest, writer, composer and local chronicler, Franc Bernik (1870–1948). Originally

The Institute of Ethnomusicology, the oldest institute of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, was established on 15 October 1934. The first director of the Institute, known as the Folklore Institute before World War II, was France Marolt. He steered the Institute’s activity towards collecting, researching and publishing materials

The Festival Hall has been the synonym for Ljubljana’s social life for decades. Having provided the venue for the emerging and burgeoning Slovenian popular dance music and jazz scene in the early nineteen-sixties, the Hall also occupies a special place in the history of Slovenian music. Then still bearing its former name, Soča, the Festival

Established in 1945, the Society of Slovenian Composers (DSS) is a voluntary professional association of composers and musicologists. Currently consisting of 114 members, the Society seeks to foster the creation of new Slovenian music, and promotes Slovenian composers. It thus channels its activities into publishing scores and music recordings, organising concerts of contemporary Slovenian music

Bled Festival Hall is a congress and arts venue that, due to its cultural importance, enjoys the status of a cultural heritage building. Situated on the shore of Lake Bled, the Hall hosts major artistic performances and concerts, as well as corporate, scientific and political events. Commissioned by the Municipality of Bled, the Festival Hall