The Biennial of Slovene Book Illustration has been organised since 1993 by Cankarjev dom Gallery in cooperation with the Illustration Section of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU) with the aim of promoting book illustration as a fine arts discipline. +
First held in 2008, the Big Architecture Festival is an international architectural event managed by Zavod Big – Center for Creative Economy of Southeast Europe, originally known simply as Zavod Big, these days as BIG SEE. +
Although Big Band KK has existed since the eighties (and was formerly know as Big Band Krško), it was practically and formally established in 1994, when Aleš Suša took over as the band's leader and conductor. +
Launched in 2018, the BigSEE Awards are presented each year in the framework of the Month of Design as well as one of its component events, the Big Architecture Festival. +
The Doslovče village house Pr' Dolenc in which priest, writer, and playwright Fran Saleški Finžgar (1871–1962) was born was reconstructed and opened as a museum in 1971. +
This house is the birthplace of Slovenj Gradec's most famous citizen – the Slovene-born composer Hugo Wolf (1860–1903), who carried on the legacy of Schubert and Schumann and is renowned as an author of late-romantic Lieder. +
The birthplace of writer, dramatist and priest Janez Jalen (1891–1966), which dates from the early 17th century, was declared a cultural monument in 1987, renovated to house the museum in 1992 and opened to the public in 1997. +
The house in which linguist, literary historian and librarian Matija Čop (1795–1835) was born was that of an average well-off family in Gorenjska, with a history that dates back to the 16th century. +
The birthplace of poet Simon Gregorčič (1844–1906), located in the village of Vrsno, seven kilometres from Kobarid, was restored in period style and opened as a museum in 1966. +