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.





The project is supported by the European program ERASMUS +.
Web page: hector-training.eu
Project duration: 1. 9. 2019–31. 8. 2022
Participating partners:
– Unione di Comuni Amiata Val d´Orcia, Italy (leading partner);
– Minas de Almaden y Arrayanes S. A., S. M. E, Spain;
– Fondatsiya on Business for the Educated – Bulgaria;
– CUDHg Idrija (Idrija Mercury Heritage Management Center), Slovenia;
– Verein fuer interdisziplinaere Bildung und Beratung, Austria;
– Kultur und Arbeit EV, Germany;
– Consorzio Terre di Toscana, Italy;
– European Federation of the Association of Industrial and Technical Heritage, Belgium;
– Technical museum of Slovenia, Slovenia.
Sounds of changes
Sound is an indispensable part of our working and everyday life. It is omnipresent, whether we perceive it or not. Sound represents an important perspective when we want to experience, explore, restore and understand different landscapes, environments and cultural heritage. For this reason we must record and preserve sounds from different parts of Europe in order to be able to explore and deepen our understanding of history, to educate others and help make it possible for younger generations to discover European industrial and social history in new and exciting ways.
In collaboration with museums from Sweden, Germany, Finland and Poland, The Technical Museum of Slovenia is taking part in the European project ‘Sounds of Changes’. The aim of the project is to collect sounds from lost and also contemporary working environments across Europe and create a publicly accessible database of these recordings. Special focus is given to the recording of “endangered” sounds which were once part of our lives, but which are slowly fading into silence.
“In this information age with fast-flowing information, intellectual property within the context of music is a multi-layered concept. The internet is the space where information is now primarily present, and this can either be an arena for illegal expropriation through pirate downloading, or a place of empowerment for individuals and smaller music labels. The internet provides tools and platforms for autonomous operation which bypasses most traditional “doorkeepers” and agents. In many countries, the once omnipresent pirating of music has been replaced by paid, but at the same time affordable, models of operation. These (at least in principal) guarantee fair compensation for the authors and respect their copyrights in the field of music. Despite constant interventions of capital, ever new and fairer models of distribution are being developed which connect artists with their listeners and users.”
European Researchers’ Night 2020
The goal of the project is to create a set of activities that will be carried out within the framework of the European Researchers’ Night on Friday, November 27th, 2020. The European Resarschers’ Night is a pan-European project under the Research and Technological Development Program – Horizon 2020.
At the initiative of the European Commission, the doors of science and research organizations will be wide open to the general public for one day of the year in order to present us the profession and the life of scientists.
The project will bring together over 30 research institutions to raise awareness of research and innovation, related social and economic benefits, and career opportunities. More than 40,000 visitors from different target groups will participate in “night” activities across Slovenia.
The activities will include scientific festivals in the main markets of four cities, research days in six primary and secondary schools, more than 30 lectures and workshops in libraries, retirement homes, museums, … open doors in research institutions, scientific centres and cultural institutions.
Join us in Ljubljana, Murska Sobota, Novo mesto, Ajdovščina, Maribor, Celje, Postojna, Koper, Slovenj Gradec, Krško, Trbovlje, Bogenšperk, Pivka, Bistra, Polhov Gradec, Kranj, Ptuj, Nova Gorica and elsewhere.
Join us on Thursday, June 11th, 2020, in Ljubljana, in front of the Castle Tivoli, where we open the project and start the people’s experiment about the bleeding canker of horse chestnut, which effects and damages horse chestnut trees. The dissappearance of chestnut trees is changing our urban landscape, that is why we will, with the help of citizens, design a map of infected areas in Slovenia.
More about the project at: http://www.nocmoc.eu/ and on it’s Facebook or Twitter page.
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.