Welcome to the website of the Coordinator for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage!
Here you can find basic information about the inscription of elements of intangible cultural heritage in the Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Slovenia.
The Register of 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. The Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Slovenia is available at the webpage of the Ministry of Culture.
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. Since 2011 the role of the national Coordinator for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is carried out by the Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
A new unit of intangible cultural heritage has been entered into the Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the 138th in a row – Jazz playing. Jazz is a fusion of African and European musical traditions. It is characterized by syncopated rhythms, dynamic orchestration and improvisation. Since the 1920s, it ...
The Ministry of Culture has inscribed two new elements into the Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage— Corpus Processions and Playing the diatonic accordion—following a proposal by the Coordinator for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Register now includes a total of 137 elements and 408 evidented bearers of ...
The New Bulgarian University in Sofia is hosting a photo exhibition entitled The Living Crafts in Southeast Europe, which was prepared by the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southeast Europe under the auspices of UNESCO in Sofia in cooperation with member states. The Slovenian ...