There are over two hundred museumsand museum collections in Slovenia. The most important heritage is preserved by the National Museum, the Slovene Museum of Ethnography, and the Museum of Natural Science of Slovenia. Among the museums of European significance belongs the World War I Soča (Isonzo) Front Museum in Kobarid, which was awarded the European Museum of the Year award by the Council of Europe.
In most of the larger cities, there are regional museums and museums of modern history, and the various specialized museums such as the Technical Museum in Bistra near Vrhnika are especially interesting. A great number of smaller museums and collections throughout Slovenia reveal the history and methods of various typical handicraft and professional skills and trades, from glass-making to firefighting, from beekeeping to blacksmithing, from bobbin lace to wine-growing, from alpine dairy farming to hop growing . . . Also particularly interesting are the mining museums like those in Idrija, Velenje, and Mežica that offer underground tours and the open-air ethnological museums like the one in Rogatec.
Throughout Slovenia, there are art galleries and Fine Art museums. The most important institutions for the Fine Arts are the National Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, and the International Graphics Center in Ljubljana. In Slovene cities there are dozens of private galleries and usually a city gallery as well. In many places, Forma Viva art colony collections are exhibited. A country situated at the intersection of many historical routes, Slovenia is a rich treasury of the past, to which many valuable archaeological finds testify. Many among them are of world importance, for example, the discovery of the world's oldest flute in Divje Babe near Idrija. Numerous finds are preserved in museums, and in many places they are exhibited in situ in archeology parks and at excavation sites arranged for visitors. Librariesandarchives also maintain rich historical and cultural heritage collections, and monuments and protected buildings- many of them linked by arranged heritage, memorial, and cultural trails-also draw the attention of visitors.
There are over two hundred 
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