The Slovene Sports Museum was established in 2001 and houses a permanent exhibition of more than 8000 artefacts, documents and other records relating to sports in Slovenia. it is the smallest national museum and still gathering artefacts. The permanent exhibition is under construction, documentation is gathered inventarisation is in progress, digital database is beeing updated, photo, audio, video and documentary films are being collected and organised. Few rooms of the museum can be seen, but organisation of the permanent collection is not made yet, giving an impression of cabinets of curiosity. Donations and acquisitions of artefacts were made by individuals, collectors, athletes, sport workers, experts and pioneers, mainly consisting of sport equipment, medals, cups, sport suits, etc.. Slovenia is strong especially in winter sports as skiing and ski jums, gymnastics, handball, basketball, shooting , swiming... so collection presents Slovenian sport legends as Mateja Svet, Mitja Petkovšek, Borut in Britta Bilač, Nataša Urbančič, Stanko Lorger, Cveto Pavčič, Bogdan Svet, Jure Zdovc, Mik Pavlovič, Marko Račič, Andrej Jelenc,... and collections like: Faculty of Sport Museum Collection with heritage of ski jump legend and constructor ing. Stanko Bloudek, Planica collection of Svetozar Guček, Bikers Society of Slovenia Collection, etc. In 2004 Slovene Sports Museum took over the Olympic Commitee of Slovenia Archives. Museum prepares temporary exhibition that follow big sport events in Slovenia, Olympics and Championships, Soccer World Cup 2002, European Championship in Waterpolo 2003 in Kranj, European Championship of Gymnastics For Men in Ljubljana (2004) with the exhibition on Miro Cerar our most successful Olympic sportsman, etc..
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