Cultural heritage
goes beyond the protection of individual buildings and objects. It integrates different skills into specialised knowledge and theoretical approaches, taking into account the spatial totality and values of the cultural environment.
We connect knowlegde and approaches in Conservation, Conservation Restoration and Preventive archaeology.
Captain
The present-day Capitania building was designed as the administrative building of the Venetian Republic for port activities.
Research in the World Heritage Area
In December 2025, a team from the Centre for Preventive Archaeology carried out a hand-excavation of three test probes in the area of the Igo area, which has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2011.
In progress - Luška kapitanija Koper
The architectural design of the renovated premises aims to bring the work of conservators and restorers closer to the general public and to raise awareness of the importance of protecting cultural heritage.
Piran Lighthouse
The mysterious history of the buildings that make up the monument still hides many unsolved questions and riddles under its cloak, and in many details it is still wisely silent. The Piran Lighthouse remains an indispensable and picturesque finishing touch to the Piran skyline.
Collegio dei Nobili
The conservation objective of the renovation was to present the original state of the early Baroque architecture typical of Venetian public institutions.
Train station in Nova Gorica
The railway station is located right on the Italian-Slovenian border, on the western edge of Nova Gorica's town centre. The most important station complex of the Bohinj line in the territory of the present-day Republic of Slovenia, it has been registered as an immovable cultural heritage site since 1996. The broadly designed roundhouse was built to serve the needs of the Bohinj line, which was constructed between 1900 and 1906 as the northern or second roundhouse of the town of Gorizia, and comprised a station building and a technical traction centre for supplying steam locomotives for traffic on the geographically demanding line.
Podčetrtek Castle
In 2020, the municipality of Podčetrtek became the sole owner of the castle and immediately organised a meeting with the competent conservators of the ZVKDS, Celje. After a thorough inspection, it was decided that the restoration of the castle would be carried out in several phases.
Mary with the Child on the throne and the six saints
In January 2019, when a skilled technical team removed the painting from the wall of the Cathedral of Koper, our team began a period of daily procedures, from removing non-original layers, puttying and retouching to the final varnishing of the paintings.
Žiče Carthusian
is an exceptional monument of monastic architecture, which transcends the Slovenian context. All the main stylistic periods of European art are preserved in its architectural fabric. Its architectural, symbolic, historical, archaeological and landscape values make it of exceptional importance for the country, which is why it was declared a cultural monument of national importance in 2015.
Register of immovable cultural heritage
The Register of Immovable Cultural Heritage is the official, computerised database of cultural heritage in the territory of Slovenia, under the responsibility of the State.
How do I obtain cultural heritage conditions and consent?
Before any intervention in cultural heritage or in the land for construction within a registered archaeological site, it is necessary to obtain cultural heritage consent from the competent IPCHS regional unit, and before that, cultural heritage conditions.
Applications
Owners or their proxies submit applications for cultural protection conditions or consents or for the preparation of an offer to carry out preliminary archaeological investigations on the forms provided in the Applications window.
The Sign of Mary
In 2024, the Department of Stones and Stucco of the ZVKDS Restoration Centre completed the comprehensive restoration of the Marian Marian Sign from Radlje ob Dravi, which began with the preparation of a conservation plan in 2018 and continued with surveys and dismantling in 2020.
Piran Lighthouse
The mysterious history of the buildings that make up the monument still hides many unsolved questions and riddles under its cloak, and in many details it is still wisely silent. The Piran Lighthouse remains an indispensable and picturesque finishing touch to the Piranese skyline at the tip of the Piranese promontory.
Mestni trg 27 and Ciril-Metodov trg 21 in Ljubljana
The renovation combined the preservation of historic elements and upgrading with 21st century solutions. The basic guiding principle was to improve and approximate to the original design and to build on the comprehensive renovation of the 1960s under the direction of the Institute for the Redevelopment of Old Ljubljana.
Conservation of the stone marker from Srževice
We have kept to the principle of minimum intervention, so we have not reconstructed the missing parts.
Renovation of Tabor Primary School I
The renovation project is a successful example of energy renovation of a damaged and dilapidated structural modernist architecture from the late 1970s.
Rotunda of St. Elijah
Although the sacral building has a simple architectural design, it is only on the basis of the preserved built structures that it can be deduced and assumed that it is most probably the oldest building in Koper.
Podčetrtek Castle
In 2020, the municipality of Podčetrtek became the sole owner of the castle and immediately organised a meeting with the competent conservators of the ZVKDS, Celje. After a thorough inspection, it was decided that the restoration of the castle would be carried out in several phases.
Protection of the ruins of the Žiče Carthusian Monastery
Žiče Carthusian Monastery is an exceptional monument of monastic architecture that transcends the Slovenian landscape. Its architectural fabric preserves all the main stylistic periods of European art. Its architectural, symbolic, historical, archaeological and landscape values make it of exceptional importance for the country, which is why it was declared a cultural monument of national importance in 2015.
Train station in Nova Gorica
The railway station is located right on the Italian-Slovenian border, on the western edge of Nova Gorica's town centre. The most important station complex of the Bohinj line in the territory of the present-day Republic of Slovenia, it has been registered as an immovable cultural heritage site since 1996.
Kremser Schmidt painting
Between 2018 and 2022, extensive conservation and restoration work was carried out on the ceiling painting of the staircase of the Gruber Palace.
Renovation of the park of Villa Rafut
The renovation, which was completed at the beginning of 2024, has integrated the park areas of Rafutski Park into a coherent whole and transformed them into a public urban park.
between St. Ahac and Strazica
Remote sensing methods such as airborne laser scanning always show time and again that the landscape is nowhere empty, it is full of footprints everywhere of past human activity. This multitude of traces challenges us the challenge of how to protect them.
Vittorio Carpaccio's organ paintings
The work on the organ paintings by the Venetian Renaissance master Vittorio Carpaccio from the Church of the Assumption in Koper began in 2010 with a naturalistic investigation of the painting and restoration materials.
The renovated Rog factory
The former Rog factory is an important monument of industrialisation in Slovenia and after renovation, the building still expresses its industrial character with its typical large coffered windows and unpainted plasterwork of extended mortar.
Publications
Here you will find publications we produce, videos and other content we produce to help people understand the importance of the historic environment and therefore our mission to protect heritage. All our authors are experts in their chosen field. Their work is designed to inspire, inform and educate.
