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Due to planned maintenance on the central communication network of the state administration, occasional difficulties may occur in the operation of the online service Virtual Archive Reading Room on Sunday, April 6, 2025.

The Archivalia of the Month April 2025 with the title Documentary Film Nepal – »Lost« and Found Again.

Due to work on the transformer substation and a power outage, the Archives Reading Room and the Information Room will be open only until 15:30 on Wednesday 26 March 2025.

The Archivalia of the Month March 2025 with the title Donate to Winter Help is published in the Online Column Archivalia of the Month.

The online column Archivalia of the Month has been published since January 2011. Its purpose is to promote the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and its archival holdings. Presented in the column are archival documents that are interesting visually and content-wise, as well as newly acquired documents or the ones that have so far been overlooked. Also published are documents relating to various anniversaries, current events and many more.

Below you will find the Archivalias of the Month of 2025.

The Archives of the Republic of Slovenia wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025.

On Thursday 19 December 2024, the Reading Room and the Information Room will be open until 12 noon.

On both Fridays, 27 December 2024 and 3 January 2025, the Archives will be closed for collective leave.

On Friday, November 15, three decades after the initial promises and government decisions were made, the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia at Poljanska Street 40 in Ljubljana finally opened its much-needed new archival building, which is going to house all archival employees under one roof for the first time since 1990. This marks the end of an important chapter in the history of the Slovenian state archive, which next year will celebrate its 80th anniversary of operating as an independent institution.

On Friday, November 15th, the archival reading room will be closed.

On Monday, 21 October and Tuesday, 22 October 2024, the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia will be closed to all visitors and users of archival records due to the move to a new location. The archives reading room and information room will be closed during this time.
It is expected that on Wednesday, 23 October 2024, the archives and the archives reading room will open in their new premises at Poljanska cesta 40.

Archival reading room and information room will be closed from Thursday, October 17, to Tuesday, October 22, 2024, due to our moving to new location.

During this time, the operation of the archive will also be interrupted.

On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, the archive and its archival reading room will begin operating at the new location at Poljanska Road 40.

The archive reading room and information room will be open only until 11.30 on Thursday, October 10.

Between September 2 and 27, 2024, the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia completed the first stage of its move to its new location at Poljanska Road 40. Archival records, which were temporarily unavailable during the relocation, are once again accessible to visitors in our reading room at Zvezdarska Street 1. The reading room will during the relocation continue to operate according to the summer schedule, i. e. Monday to Friday from 8 am to 2 pm.

The reading room of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia at Zvezdarska 1 in Ljubljana will from September 2, 2024 be open Monday to Friday from 8 am to 2 pm due to the relocation of our archival and library holdings. During this period, some archival fonds and collections, as well as library materials, will be unavailable.

On Friday, August 16th, the Archive, the reading room and the information room will be closed due to a collective leave day.

On Monday, June 24th, the Archive, the reading room and the information room will be closed due to a collective leave day.

The reading room of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia at 1 Zvezdarska Street in Ljubljana will be open from June 17th to August 30th, 2024, according to summer working hours, from Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 2 PM.

This year's International Archives Day and Week are marked by the announcement of the relocation of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia to its new building. On Thursday, June 6, the Director of the Archives of Republic of Slovenia, Dr Andrej Nared, signed the hand-over report on the completed construction and reconstruction works on the building of the former military barracks at Poljanska Street 40 in Ljubljana and officially took over the new facilities, which were designated for the state archives already 30 years ago.

The archive reading room and information room will be open only until 12 noon on Thursday, May 9, due to the event.

On Friday, May 3rd, the Archive, the reading room and the information room will be closed due to a collective leave day.