From our Collections

Opera soprano Vilma Bukovec (1920–2016)

We are presenting our our collections. In February 2020 we are presenting Vilma Bukovec as Mařenka in…

Maks Kavčič’s stage design sketch

We are presenting our our collections. In January 2020 we are presenting a Maks Kavčič’s stage design…

Miroslav Vilhar in Mirko Mahnič: Velika beseda (Večer v čitavnici), režiser Mirko Mahnič, Mestno gledališče ljubljansko, premiera 26. novembra 1953. Vir: Ikonoteka SLOGI - Gledališki muzej.

Miroslav Vilhar & Mirko Mahnič: The Grand Word (An Evening at the Reading Room), directed by Mirko Mahnič, Ljubljana City Theatre, opening on 26 November, 1953

We are presenting our our collections. In December 2019 we are presenting a photograpy and poster of…

Portret Avguste Danilove iz Fedore leta 1911 – iz njene zapuščine v SLOGI. Vir: Ikonoteka SLOGI – Gledališki muzej.

Augusta Danilova – 150th birth anniversary

We are presenting our our collections. In November 2019 we are presenting a photograpy and poster of…

Ivan Vavpotič, scenski osnutek za uprizoritev Marij Kogoj: Črne maske (režiser Boris Krivecki, Opera Narodnega gledališča v Ljubljani, 1928/29). Vir: Ikonoteka SLOGI – Gledališki muzej.

Ivan Vavpotič’s stage design sketch

We are presenting our our collections. In October 2019 we are publishing Ivan Vavpotič’s stage design sketch…

Janez Lenassi, stage design sketch (25 x 35.6 cm, tempera, pencil, marker pen) for the performance Primož Kozak: The Affair (directed by France Jamnik, SNT Drama Ljubljana, 1961/62). Source: SLOGI Iconotheque – Theatre Museum.

Janez Lenassi’s stage design sketch

We are presenting our our collections. In September 2019 we are publishing Janez Lenassi’s stage design sketch…

Niko Matul’s stage design sketch

We are presenting our our collections. In August 2019 we are publishing Niko Matul’s, stage design sketch…

Avgust Lavrenčič’s stage design sketch and the exhibition The Space Within the Space: Scenography in Slovenia Before 1991

We are presenting our our collections. In July 2019 we are publishing Avgust Lavrenčič’s stage design sketch…

Maks Kavčič’s stage design sketch and the exhibition The Space Within the Space: Scenography in Slovenia Before 1991

We are presenting our our collections. In June 2019 we are publishing Maks Kavčič’s stage design sketch…

Viktor Molka’s stage design sketch and the exhibition The Space Within the Space: Scenography in Slovenia Before 1991

We are presenting our our collections. In May 2019 we are publishing Viktor Molka’s stage design sketch…

Ernest Franz, stage design sketch, (34 x 48,1 cm, collage, tempera paint) for the performance Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor (directed by Peter Golovin, SNT Opera Ljubljana, 1945/46). Source: SLOGI Iconotheque – Theatre Museum.

Ernest Franz’s stage design sketch and the exhibition The Space Within the Space: Scenography in Slovenia Before 1991

We are presenting our our collections. In March 2019 we are publishing Ernest Franz’s stage design sketch…

The Author of the Event in the Town of Goga Looking for the Publisher

We are presenting our our collections. In March 2019 we are publishing a letter by Slavko Grum,…

William Shakespeare, King Lear, directed by Dušan Jovanović, SNT Drama Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Theatre and Cankarjev dom, opening on 4 October 1992 at Cankarjev dom. Photo: Tone Stojko, 1992. Source: SLOGI Iconotheque – Theatre Museum.

Photo: Tone Stojko, 1992. Source: SLOGI Iconotheque – Theatre Museum.

Bjanka Adžić Ursulov, the Prešeren Award Laureate for Lifetime Achievement in 2019

Bjanka Adžić Ursulov has in the course of her career also created the costume design for the…

Source: Iconotheque SLOGI - Theatre Museum

Gizela Bravničar and Peter Golovin, No-dated photography, donation by Henrik Neubauer

Season 2018/2019 marks the centenary of the Slovenian ballet (Ljubljana established its first professional ballet ensemble in…

Izidor Cankar, actor Anton Verovšek and Ivan Cankar paying visit to the writer Fran Saleški Finžgar (sitting in the photo) in Sora near Medvode on 11 July, 1911.

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Izidor Cankar, PhD (art historian, a decade older cousin of Ivan Cankar), actor Anton Verovšek and Ivan Cankar paying visit to the writer Fran Saleški Finžgar (sitting in the photo) in Sora near Medvode on 11 July, 1911

Izidor Cankar, PhD (art historian, a decade older cousin of Ivan Cankar), actor Anton Verovšek and Ivan…

In 1956, SNT Drama Ljubljana staged a performance of “The Serfs” by Ivan Cankar in Paris.

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The Ensemble of the SNT Drama Ljubljana in the Louvre Park during The Serfs tour in 1956

In 1956, SNT Drama Ljubljana staged a performance of “The Serfs” by Ivan Cankar in Paris. After…

In the photo Zofja Borštnik Zvonar can be seen in the leading role of The Lady with the Camellias (Camille) by Alexandre Dumas fls, Sofa, 1905.

Source: Iconotheque SLOGI – Theatre Museum

Zofija Borštnik Zvonarjeva (1868–1948)

The theatre actress Zofija Borštnik Zvonarjeva was born 150 years ago. She debuted in 1882, at the…

Academic painter and stage designer Milan Butina created set design (and sometimes also the costume design) in more than ninety Slovenian professional theatre productions in years 1951–1973.

Source: Iconotheque SLOGI – Theatre Museum

Set design sketches by Milan Butina (1923–1999)

Academic painter and stage designer Milan Butina created set design (and sometimes also the costume design) in…

100th anniversary of the revival of the Slovenian National Theater after the WW I.

In September this year we are witnessing the 100th anniversary of the revival of the Slovenian National…

John Arden Live Like Pigs, directed by. Zvone Šedlbauer, SNT Drama Ljubljana, 13 January 1976.

Source: Iconotheque SLOGI – Theatre Museum

Costume sketches by Alenka Bartl (1930-2018)

Alenka Bartl, the great lady of the costume design in Slovenia, passed away on the 8th of…

Among materials of the Slovenian Theatre Institute on Ivan Cankar, the greatest Slovene playwright ever since we keep some photos of his manuscript of the early version of his last play Lepa Vida (Fair Vida).

Material from the Archives SLOGI sign. 8, map 7, no. 2

On the centenary of the death of Ivan Cankar, the greatest Slovenian playwright (1876–1918)

Among materials of the Slovenian Theatre Institute on Ivan Cankar, the greatest Slovene playwright ever since (who…

Source: Iconotheque SLOGI – Theatre Museum

Fran Lipah, Slovene actor (1892–1952).

In many of his radio humoresque, Lipah evolved the good humoured character of Nace Kapelj. As Kapelj,…

Source: Iconotheque SLOGI – Theatre Museum

Members of the so called National reading room in Kranj (reading rooms were established in Carniola during the 1860’s and constituted a cultural and political movement). Colorized photo 1878l

First from left is the mother in law of Mr. Saboti, a lawyer in Kranj in the…

Janez Mejač as Prince, Sergei Prokofev, Cinderella. A ballet in three acts composed to a libretto by Nikolai Volkov. SNT Opera and Ballet Ljubljana.

Source: Iconotheque SLOGI – Theatre Museum

Janez Mejač, the principal ballet soloist, choreographer and director, the winner of the Prešeren Award for Lifetime Achievement 2018

Janez Mejač as Prince, Sergei Prokofiev, Cinderella. A ballet in three acts composed to a libretto by…