The Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (ZVKDS) is the national institution responsible for the preservation, protection and promotion of immovable and related movable and living cultural heritage.
Protection of cultural heritage: ZVKDS is responsible for the identification, evaluation, documentation and protection of Slovenia's cultural heritage.
Cultural heritage research: ZVKDS conducts research on cultural heritage and cooperates with various professional and scientific institutions in its study.
Education and awareness-raising: ZVKDS runs education programmes and raises public awareness of the importance and value of cultural heritage. In doing so, it encourages a responsible attitude towards heritage and promotes its importance for the identity and cultural richness of society.
Cooperation with local communities: ZVKDS cooperates with local communities, municipalities and other stakeholders in the protection and management of cultural heritage. The aim is to create synergies between national and local levels and to preserve heritage at all levels.
Cultural heritage management: ZVKDS participates in the planning and implementation of measures for the conservation and maintenance of cultural heritage at national and local level.
International cooperation: ZVKDS cooperates with foreign institutions and organisations, exchanges knowledge and experience, and participates in international projects in the field of cultural heritage protection.
Director-General
In 2014, architect Jernej Hudolin took over the management of the Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (ZVKDS). Under his leadership, ZVKDS has implemented several major projects. Recent projects include the restoration of the Plečnik House and the National Gallery in Ljubljana and the Minorite Complex in Maribor, the restoration of Bled Castle and the church on the island, the extensive rehabilitation and presentation of ancient mosaics in Izola and Celje, and the logistically challenging restoration of the Aljaž Tower, the exceptional restoration work on the works of Benedetto and Vittore Carpaccio, two of the paintings were also exhibited in the Doge's Palace in Venice in 2023 as part of the retrospective exhibition of the works of Vittore Carpaccio, after the completion of the conservation and restoration work.
Under his leadership, the Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage has become a partner in multi-million euro, development-oriented international projects such as the InnoRenew Centre of Excellence (CoE) and The European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS).
The 7 regional units of the ZVKDS cover the whole country, dealing with the registration of heritage and monuments, their valorisation and the procedures related to their proclamation. As part of their administrative tasks, they issue cultural protection conditions and consents or opinions for interventions.
Dr Robert Peskar
Conservator General
Metelkova 4, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: 01/400 79 27
E-mail: tajnistvo.skd.sr@zvkds.si
The Cultural Heritage Service is one of the two main organisational units of the SCCHR, comprising 7 regional units covering the whole country. The Cultural Heritage Service cooperates with owners and other users of heritage and carries out administrative and professional tasks and public protection mandates. Its main tasks include recording and documenting heritage, evaluating heritage and preparing proposals for entry in the Register of Immovable Cultural Heritage, preparing proposals for the designation of heritage as a cultural monument, issuing cultural protection acts for renovations, carrying out supervision of interventions, and various tasks in the field of popularisation and promotion of heritage.
Barbara Nadbath
Director
Poljanska cesta 40, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: 01/23 43 100
E-mail: tajnistvo@zvkds.si
The Centre for Conservation is one of the two main organisational units of the SCCSS. It brings together two larger organisational units that operate throughout the country, the Centre for Restoration and the Centre for Preventive Archaeology. The Research Institute also operates within the Centre for Conservation. The main tasks of these units are to ensure the methodological and infrastructural development of restoration conservation and preventive archaeology, to carry out complex research and other interventions on monuments, heritage and archaeological remains. We pay special attention to the popularisation of our work.
Martina Lesar Kikelj
Head of
Poljanska cesta 40, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: 01/23 43 140
E-mail: tajnistvo.rc@zvkds.si
As part of the national public service, the Restoration Centre is responsible for the development of the conservation and restoration profession and carries out direct implementation tasks on state-owned monuments. The Conservation Centre also carries out direct activities on privately owned monuments, for which it conducts and implements preliminary surveys, prepares conservation plans and conservation and restoration project documentation for the interventions it carries out. Particular attention is paid to research, promotional and educational tasks.
Barbara Nadbath
Director
Poljanska cesta 40, p.p. 338
Telephone: 08/20 50 720
E-mail: tajnistvo.cpa@zvkds.si
The Centre for Preventive Archaeology manages and carries out preliminary archaeological investigations in the area of national planning acts, the area of release of building land within settlements and state-owned and privately-owned monuments. It also pays particular attention to the methodological and infrastructural development of archaeological research and post-excavation procedures. In addition, it organises solo exhibitions and publishes its own publications to popularise and develop public awareness of preventive archaeology.
Damjana Pečnik
Head of
Metelkova 4,1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: 01/400 79 27
E-mail: tajnistvo.skd.sr@zvkds.si
The Development Service is responsible for the coordinated and unified management of the overall professional tasks of the ZVKDS, coordinates and directs development projects, and carries out tasks in the field of
publishing, popularisation and international cooperation.
Sabina Ogrinc
Head of
Poljanska cesta 40, 1000 Ljubljana
Telephone: 01/400 79 27
E-mail: tajnistvo.ss@zvkds.si
Shared services are the organisational unit of the SCCDS, where the common business, administrative and technical tasks of the Institute are carried out. These tasks are carried out by: the Informatics Department, the Human Resources Department, the Planning, Analysis and Management Department, the Legal Affairs and Procurement Department, the Accounting and Financial Department, and the Office of the Director-General.
Our work seeks to contribute to the dissemination of ideas, knowledge and behaviour, which are brought together by experts from different disciplines within the diverse system of the SCCRS. We pay particular attention to relations with the media.
