Notable Items

Mammoth Skeleton

Notable Items

Cave Bear

Notable Items

Triassic Fish from Triglav

Notable Items

Zoisite Mineral

Notable Items

Narrow-necked Cave Beetle

Notable Items

Pinter’s Collection of Wood Samples

Notable Items

Fin Whale Skeleton

Notable Items

Slovenia’s Oldest Herbarium

Notable Items

Olm, or the Human Fish

Notable Items

Count Jožef Kalasanc Erberg’s Dried Garden

Past exhibitions

Exhibition

15/05/2024 do 10/10/2024

Woolly rhinoceros in Slovenia – the surprise of the decade!

In 2023, the museum received the first fossil remains of a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). The tooth is one of the most important paleontological discoveries in Slovenia in recent decades.

Exhibition

10/05/2024 do 09/06/2024

Tanzanite – a gem variety of zoisite

Tanzanite is a violet blue to blue violet gem variety of the mineral zoisite. Its diversity from Tanzania is represented by Dr Clemens Schwarzinger, professor, collector and gemcutter.

Exhibition

22/03/2024 do 05/05/2024

Eggs, nests, birds …

On occasion of the Easter holidays, we present some of the egg, nest and bird specimens held in the ornithological collection of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History. The entire collection currently includes 239 bird nests, and 1482 inventory units of bird eggs (each unit can contain between 1 and 14 eggs).

Exhibition

22/03/2024 do 05/05/2024

Donations in 2023

In 2023, we received an unexpectedly large number of vertebrate collections contributed by various donors, which were included in the Museum’s archives.

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