Intangible Cultural Heritage of Slovenia

The Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is a technical list of intangible cultural heritage from the area of the Republic of Slovenia. The Register includes elements connected with intangible cultural heritage and the bearers of that heritage. Elements that are pan-Slovene or characteristic of a specific region may have a number of bearers, while local elements may have only one. Proposals for inclusion in the Register are drawn up by the Coordinator for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, while the Register is maintained by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

In 2009 and 2010 the role of Coordinator was carried out by the Institute of Slovene Ethnology at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, and since 2011 by the Slovene Ethnographic Museum.

Elements of the intangible cultural heritage in the Register with special significance can, in a further procedure, be declared as intangible cultural heritage of special local or national importance, and the latter can apply for UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage Gallery
  • Performance of the Škofja Loka Passion Play.
  • Shrovetide custom in Cerkno.
  • Shrovetide marriage to a pine tree in Bodonci.
  • Rounds of the Shrovetide ploughmen in Mali Okič.
  • Shrovetide custom (Škoromatija) in Obrov.
  • Door-to-door rounds of kurenti.
  • Shrovetide custom in Drežnica.
  • Decorating eggs to celebrate šempav.
  • Anica Tomšič while making paper flowers.
  • Martin Matkovič while making a hat from chestnut leaves.
  • Jože Hudej while making Palm Sunday bunches in Ljubno.
  • Easter egg game in Primskovo near Litija.
  • Bela krajina decorated Easter eggs.
  • New Year carolls in Bohinjska Češnjica.
  • Charcoal making.
  • Sava Valley štehvanje.
  • The Drašiči Neighbourhood.
  • Traditional production of the Carniolan sausages.
  • Playing pandolo on the open space outside the Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
  • Weaving St. John’s wreaths.
  • The Kolaši on Easter Monday in Metlika while performing Easter dances and games.
  • Cutting poprtnik in the National Assembly.
  • Tearing Bela krajina pogača.
  • Bela krajina povitica.
  • Making Bohinj mohant.
  • Veronika Hlebec while baking Prleška gibanica.
  • Building Carniolan walls in Klemenčevo.
  • Making Idrija bobbin lace on the festival of handicraft in Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
  • Making Palm Sunday bunches in Škale.
  • Shrovetide group Šelmarija from Kostanjevica.
  • Concert of the Domžale Brass band.
  • A potter Franc Kremžar while making traditional pottery.
  • Rezka Mali while making trnič cheese on Velika planina.
  • Collecting gifts on Shrove Tuesday in Vrbica.
  • Shrovetide custom in Zagorica.
  • Making braided straws for straw hats.
  • Making Bovec krafi.
  • Andrej Mihelič while making Ribnica woodenware.
  • A workshop where Marko Klinc Jr. is making kurentije – the costume of the kurent.
  • Members of the Bobbin lace Association Cvetke Žiri while making bobbin laces.
  • Prekmurje decorated Easter eggs.
  • Traditional production of sea salt.
  • Shrovetide custom in Ponikve
  • Members of the Osilniška dolina Association.
  • Launching drevak boat on Cerknica Lake.
  • Particularities of the hunting fitting.
  • Weaving a basket.
  • Selling Palm Sunday bunches from Ljubljana area at the marketplace.
  • Setting gančki majoš.
  • 60th Walk on the Path of Remembrance and Comradeship.
  • Dry stone wall.
  • Launching gregorčki models for St. Gregory’s Day in Kropa.
  • Cable ferying in Mostec.
  • Lipizzaner horses in stud farm in Lipica.
  • Škuljanje.
  • Making paper by hand.
  • Folk music.
  • Baking Easter oblati.
  • Shingle Making Craft.
  • Slovene sign language.
  • Mozirje Carnival.
  • Making small breads and wooden models.
  • Bell-ringing.
  • Lectarstvo.
  • Painting beehive panels.
  • Beekeeping.
  • The preparation of Upper Savinja želodec.
  • Firing a mortar.
  • Reading Badge movement.
  • Mobile beekeeping.
  • The making of pletna boats and using them on Lake Bled.
  • Prekmurje dialect.
  • Building beehives and apiaries
  • Breeding queen bees of the Carniolan bee
  • Making Idrija žlikrofi.
  • Making pipes.
  • Visit from Grandfather Frost.
  • Mountain pasturing and dairying.
  • Apitherapy.
  • The Carnival rounds of mowers, ploughmen and wedding guests in Loče.
  • Thatching.
  • "Pulling the plank".
  • Solčava dialect.
  • Amateur theatre.
  • Four voice singing.
  • Use of house names.
  • Lig Carnival.
  • Dancing sotiš.
  • Dancing šamarjanka.
  • Making Palm Sunday branches.
  • The leather jump.
  • St Nicholas Day.
  • Bovec local dialect
  • Six-voice singing
  • Bovec folklore literature.
  • Istrskobeneški atlas SZ Istre.
  • Three Kings’ Rounds.
  • Making potica.
  • Midwifery.
  • Making and presenting nativity scene.
  • Making Prekmurje gibanica.
  • Repair of mechanical watches.
  • Making mlinčevka.
  • Counted thread embroidery
  • Embroidery following a stencil
  • Production of pumpkin oil
  • Making Suhorje decorated Easter eggs
  • Playing the tambura
  • Herbalism.
  • Fruit drying.
  • Traditional shoemaking.
  • Preparation of Carinthian rye bread.