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Slovenia's first tactile gallery has opened in Nova Gorica municipality, offering blind and sighted visitors alike a fresh, hands-on encounter with iconic artworks spanning centuries.
The Tactile Gallery, located in a shopping centre in Kromberk and run by the regional Goriška Museum, features work
The last major Roman civil war is thought to have been fought in the Vipava area in today's western Slovenia in 394. While written records of the Battle of the Frigidus exist, its exact location could not have been pinpointed so far for lack of material evidence. Yet the most recent archaeological
No Other Land, a film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective dealing with the theme of apartheid in the West Bank, has won the Amnesty International (AI) Slovenia award for best human rights documentary after taking a number of other accolades, including Best Documentary Feature Film at this year's Ac
A film based on an essay by Slovenian writer Drago Jančar explores a little-known episode of James Joyce's life in Trieste when he persuaded four entrepreneurs to open Ireland's first cinema.
Combining live action and documentary formats, Kino Volta (Volta Cinema) pieces together fragments to shed
Ančka Gošnik Godec, one of Slovenia's most beloved illustrators of books for children, including the iconic Slipper Keeper Kitty, has died, aged 97, leaving behind an extensive oeuvre.
Gošnik Godec illustrated more than 100 books for children, winning a number of awards for her work at home and abr
The Brdo mansion, on the northern outskirts of Kranj, is the best maintained and one of the best known of all mansions and castles in Slovenia, largely thanks to the fact that the estate is the backdrop to virtually all top political events in the country.
A soul-sensing place
Built 500 years ago,
Having scooped a series of prizes for her animated short Granny's Sexual Life, Urška Djukić has now also made a mark with her debut feature, winning one of the awards at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
Her sensual coming-of-age film Little Trouble Girls (Kaj Ti Je Deklica) opened the f
Maruša Puhek, an acclaimed photographer from Radenci, has been crowned the winner of the prestigious World Nature Photography Awards 2025 (WNPA) for her image of two deer gracefully sprinting through a snow-covered vineyard in northeastern Slovenia.
Puhek, who is currently based in Austria, took th
Wild Days (Les Jours Sauvages), a French film by Yohan Guignard about four friends on a journey across Alaska, has won the main award at the 19th Mountain Film Festival, held in Ljubljana, Domžale and Radovljica.
The film follows the four friends during their 50-day adventure in the Arctic regions
