The Synagogue Maribor is joining the second part of the Forward to the Past project. Slovenian museums and galleries moved their operations online during the COVID-19 epidemic and continued to successfully fulfill their mission, promote cultural heritage and maintain contact with their visitors and service users. Our job is to preserve the past by taking […]

You are invited to an exhibition about the history of the Slovenian northern border. The exhibition presents the events and persons who marked the happenings on the border and takes a look at lesser-known stories. The exhibition consists of 5 billboards, which are written in Slovenian on one side and in German on the other.

You are cordially invited to watch the online lecture of assoc. prof. dr. Marjeta Ciglenečki about Avguštin Stegenšek. During the hosting of the photographic exhibition Terra Sancta 1910 in the Synagogue Maribor, the idea of ​​a lecture by assoc. prof. dr. Marjeta Ciglenečki with the title “Avguštin Stegenšek and his journey to the Holy Land

Marpurgi: Between History and Literary Freedom This year, the Beletrina publishing house published the fourth reprint of the novel Marpurgi by the writer Zlata Vokač Medic. Based on the novel, the opera Marpurgi (composer Nina Šenk and librettist and director Igor Pison) was created in Slovenian National Theatre Maribor. The exhibition Marpurgi: Between History and Literary Freedom, written by Boris Hajdinjak from

The Crocus Project is a project aimed at young people from the age of eleven onwards to remember all the children who died in the Holocaust. In the year 2020-2021, The Crocus Projest in Slovenia is organized and financed by the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor. On the interactive map you can find

Discover? Protect! Preserve. From 26 September to 10 October, Slovenian cultural, museum, and gallery institutions will celebrate the European Heritage Days. As part of these projects, which take place under the auspices of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, visitors will be able to participate in numerous events and activities throughout

We invite you to a cycling tour “Melje in the first half of the 20th century: buildings and their stories”, where we will learn about the history of Melje. For most of today’s Maribor citizens, let alone for potential visitors, Melje is a part of Maribor that is not in any itinerary. Yet this part of the

We present to you the exhibition of the National Library of Israel, dedicated to the central theme of this year’s European Days of Jewish Culture. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the European Union for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Cultural Heritage (AEPJ), the text for which was prepared by dr. Elliot Jager

We kindly invite you to a lecture by Maja Kutin entitled Travels to the Holy Land in the past and life in it today. The lecture will take place on Thursday, 10th of September 2020, at 18:00 in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4. Even after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and after the Jewish people

Jews in Slovenia (1989, 41 min.) Screening of a documentary film. The screening will take place on Friday, 4. September 2020, at 19:00 in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4. After the movie there will be a conversation with director Maja Weiss and co-writer Alenka Hladnik. The discussion will be led by mag. Bojan Labović. Co-organised by Mitra, Society