Do you plan a holiday and you would like to find out more about the traditions in your destination? Would you like to enliven your trip with a visit to a folk song festival? Or would you rather visit a local museum or sight? Are you wandering what kind of healthy traditional dish to cook on the weekend? Would you like to find out more about local traditions around you?
Are you an expert, teacher or a student who needs a source of high quality information about the culture in the countries of Central Europe for his work? Are you looking for an expert view on a particular tradition when writing a project?
Are you planning the restoration of a historic building and need information about local traditional architecture? Would you like to find out what your community looked like many years ago?
Are you organizing an interesting event linked to folk culture in your region? A festival of folk dance and song? Do you offer accommodation in a historic building? Do you run a restaurant serving local dishes and would you like to be authentic? Or are you trying to get into the market with a popular object or tool used by our ancestors?
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African Collection of František Foit
06.03.2011 - 31.07.2017
The collection is composed of objects gathered by Czech academic sculptor František Foit during his 25 years in Africa. Read more | Show on map
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Traditional natural healing - preparations of animal origine
Animals accompanied man from time immemorial and next to the means of vegetable and mineral to the healing of the applied means of the animal, which had various ways of use. From the consumption of... Read more -
Traditional natural healing - preparations of mineral origin
Preparation of mineral origine played in traditional natural healing important role. Some of this preparations are a part of contemporary official medicine today. Most important in legacy of our... Read more -
Tobacco in the Folk Culture
Tobacco is name of plant (Nicotiana) and product, which is produced from tobacco leaves and used for manufacturing cigarettes, cigars or filling pipes. Tobacco contains the alkaloid nicotine, which... Read more
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Kavčnik Homestead
Kavčnik homestead is an exceptional museum of folk architecture. The main room of the house is more than 400 years old smokehouse with an open fireplace which was used for cooking and heating.... Read more | Show on map -
The Museum of the Leather Industry in Slovenia
Tradition with the Leather Smell Leather craft was an important traditional craft during the centuries. This craft overgrew to the industrial level in the period of industrialisation and in the 20th... Read more | Show on map -
The Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia
The museum is the result of work of many generations of Slovenian miners and is a very interesting way of cooperation between the still working Coal Mine Velenje (with an annual production of around... Read more | Show on map
