Collecting, researching, reviving. Sports heritage and the Sports Museum

With the temporary exhibition Collecting, researching, reviving: Sports heritage and the Sports Museum, the Sports Museum continues to implement its mission of protecting sports heritage. It is important that sports heritage is cared for professionally, and in light of this fact, Slovenia requires an appropriate institution. With their achievements, Slovenian athletes are among the best in the world, thus undermining the unfounded preoccupation with the size of the population. However, sport is not just about medals as it makes an important contribution to the health, economic and general well-being of society.

In more than 20 years of operation, the Sports Museum has acquired an enviable amount of material, which it has presented to the public regularly despite insufficient premises. As the title suggests, the exhibition aims to showcase the Museum’s work to date and the breadth of its area of activity. The focus this time is not on the individual and the biggest sporting achievements, although we cannot and do not want to ignore them, but rather on the multiplicity of sports and their development throughout history, on the one hand, and the diversity of the museum’s collected material, on the other. The exhibition shows the development of many fields, such as gymnastics, cycling, athletics, water sports, skating, skiing, mountaineering, and climbing, ball games, and guides us in the spirit of the old Sokol motto: “Keep getting stronger!”

Special thanks for the exhibition go to the staff of the Slovenian School Museum, former staff of the Sports Museum, donors of materials and other supporters who have made it possible for Slovenia’s rich sporting heritage not to be forgotten but to inspire future generations of champions.