Month: January 2025

During the public discussion on the draft Protection of Cultural Heritage Act (ZVKD-2), Professor Dr Mojca Ramšak, who heads the project “Smell and Intangible Cultural Heritage“, submitted amendments to the Act on 28 January 2025 to expand the definition of intangible cultural heritage by including smell as a separate category in the concept of “sensory …

An important step towards the protection of sensory and olfactory cultural heritage in Slovenia Read More »

Ethnologists Dr Mojca Ramšak and Dr Karla Oder have teamed up to investigate the multi-layered meaning of sulphur smells in human experience. Their collaboration, which was planned even before the official launch of the project “Smell and intangible cultural heritage”, bridges the gap between tangible and intangible heritage through an innovative study of olfactory experiences. …

The smell of sulphur: Slovenian researchers bridge industrial history and religious symbolism Read More »