Projects
Technical Museum of Slovenia regular cooperates in EU projects.
This year, the Technical Museum of Slovenia participates in several European projects. Those that are intended for the participation of the general public are presented on this website in more details, and you can follow them on the registers that are listed for each individual set.
Carbon Stories is a European development project dedicated to exploring the history of climate change through education in the field of cultural and industrial heritage. The project offers a new perspective on the industrial past by connecting it with the origins and development of global warming.
The project is coordinated by the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas from Tampere, with partners including the Mining History Centre from France, the Technical Museum of Slovenia, and the Spanish organization Neo Sapiens, which specializes in environmental education. The project is co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.
The Carbon Stories project launched in November 2025 and will run for two years. Implemented in the field of adult education, its main goal is to renew narratives surrounding industrial heritage. Museums often present the industrial past primarily as a series of technological achievements or as a story of progress and improved quality of life. Carbon Stories aims to develop new interpretations and educational tools that place the industrial era within the broader context of climate change and global warming. Project partners will jointly develop, test, and disseminate new museum narratives and effective approaches to climate education.
New climate narratives will be created and integrated into guided tours and workshops. The experiences and results from pilot implementations will serve as the foundation for organizing webinars, developing educational materials, and preparing a final conference aimed at professionals in education and heritage. Special attention will be paid to gathering visitor feedback, contributing to in-depth reflection on new narrative approaches and the role of industrial heritage museums in climate education.
Discover the shared stories of Portuguese and Slovenian post and telecommunications
Europe has many museums dedicated to the history of human communications. These museums also have the mission of safeguarding, sharing and disseminating post and telecommunications heritage.
These museums are a space for dialogue and debate about how we communicate and project our future, often based on educational principles and looking forward to what lies ahead.
In 2021, after a meeting between the Portuguese Communications Museum (Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações) team and the Slovenian Post and Telecommunications Museum team, the idea to create a partnership between the two entities was born. It was called “Connecting Stories” – a project that aims to analyse and communicate the similarities and differences between their exhibition discourses and the heritage they have in their care.
This project, now in its initial stages, aims to broaden the knowledge between both countries, including their history and traditions, through their post and telecommunications activities over time. For this to happen, throughout the year, we’ll be sharing some pieces we have in common and are exhibited in both our museums, as well as celebrate dates that unite us.
In the permanent exhibition “Conquering Distance – Five centuries of telecommunications in Portugal”, next to the piece showcased every three months, we’ll have a photograph of its Slovenian “twin”, as well as an explanation of the interpretative and historical discourse it belongs to.
Connecting Stories is an initiative aimed at being long-lasting by opening a window of knowledge and experience sharing between two museums that are geographically apart but share the same purpose of thinking about the history of communications in the past, present and future.
1. object: POST HORN (click on the flag)
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2. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS (click on the flag)
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Where is the post horn?
Where is the post horn? is an European project intended for upgrading the overall image of Museum of Post and Telecommunications and specially making it more appealing for young children. The project was co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and European Social fund. It was carried out by students from University of Ljubljana. The game takes you on a journey through time, introducing different eras of postal service along the way. Imagine travelling to Ancient Greece, visiting the Middle Ages, fighting for your life underwater, going inside the telephone and much more. Different characters that you meet along the way help you to find the missing pieces of the post horn. In order to finish the game, the child must find answers to different riddles by exploring the museum and searching for hidden clues. We managed to make the museum visit more interesting for children and increase their focus when looking at the exhibition.
