The 16th edition of Piranova, the International Summer School of Museology, has come to a close
From 25 to 28 May, the Forum of Slavic Cultures, in cooperation with the Regional Museum Koper, the European Museum Academy and the Goriški Museum, organised the international summer school of museology Piranova. This year’s sixteenth edition bore the title Expanding Horizons: Echoes of Heritage in the Future of Museums. The programme took place in […]
The 16th PIRANOVA Summer School Begins
Koper, 25-28 May – The Forum of Slavic Cultures, in collaboration with the European Museum Academy and the Koper Regional Museum, is organizing the 16th PIRANOVA International Summer School of Museology. This year’s event will be held from 25 to 28 May 2025 at the Koper Regional Museum. The Summer School continues to uphold its […]
The call for participation for the 16th International Summer School of Museology is now open!
This year’s International Summer School of Museology, which will take place from May 25 to 28 in Koper, explores the evolving role of museums as dynamic spaces that bridge the past and the future. Title: Expanding Horizons – Echoes of heritage in the future of museums We will explore how heritage encourages museums to move […]
Call for the 16th International Summer School of Museology is out!
The 16th International Summer School of Museology this year explores the evolving role of museums as dynamic spaces that bridge the past and the future! At the heart of this theme lies the understanding that heritage is not a static collection of artifacts, but a living and evolving narrative that continues to influence our present […]
International Summer School of Museology on the Green Transformation
This year’s International Summer School of Museology was held for the 15th time, this time under the title Museums and Green Transformation. The school, held at the Regional Museum in Koper, was attended by students, curators and museum directors from Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Syria, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. In […]
Call for the 15th International Summer School of Museology is out!
This year’s International Summer School of Museology that will take place in Koper, Slovenia, from 27 to 30 May, focuses on the climate change with the special emphasis on relations to museums and cultural heritage. Title: Museum and Green Transformations Climate change and global warming are reality and we all facing significant environmental problems. Natural […]
Piranova in Bitola
From 28 to 30 November 2023, the Piranova International Colloquium »Museums – That Matter: Permanent Museum Exhibitions and Work with Visitors« took place in Bitola, North Macedonia. The event was organised in collaboration with the NI Institute and Museum Bitola. During the international colloquium, Dr Andreja Rihter, director of the Forum of Slavic Cultures, and […]
Živa 2023 Award Judges Meet in Ljubljana for Deliberation
An international team of 14 judges convened in Ljubljana to carefully evaluate the nominated candidates for the Živa 2023 award. The panel of judges, comprised of renowned museology and heritage experts, discussed the nominees’ conservation efforts, community engagement and educational initiatives. The decision on the winners of the Živa 2023 award will be announced at […]
Heritage and the digital at this year’s Piranova
This year’s edition of the international four-day colloquium Piranova featured experts from Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Poland, North Macedonia and Ukraine who explored good practices in digital technologies that facilitate museums in creating a participatory and inclusive museum experience. The colloquium took place at the Herman Pečarič Gallery (Piran Coastal Galleries) with speakers from Slovenia: […]
The 14th International Summer School of Museology
The summer school “Intimacy in Women’s Reading and Writing”, organised by the CEEPUS network “Women Writers in History” and the Women Writers Route (WWR) in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, brought together participants from seven European countries. The school, which opened up the space for discussions on intimacy, […]