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PROJECT

The database and website of East Asian objects in Slovenia were created as part of the project East Asian Collections in Slovenia: Inclusion of Slovenia in the Global Exchanges of Objects and Ideas with East Asia (J7-9429), supported by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS). In collaboration with several institutions, the project was supervised by the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (2018–2021) under the leadership of Dr Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik. The partner research institutions were the Science and Research Centre Koper and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum; the other participating research institutions were the National Museum of Slovenia, the Celje Regional Museum and the Maritime Museum Piran.

Further research on East Asian collections in Slovenia and the upgrade of the database is being conducted as part of the following two projects: Orphaned Objects: Examining East Asian Objects outside Organised Collecting Practices in Slovenia (J6-3133, 2021–2024) and Life of the Skušek Collection: From the Living Room to the Virtual Museum (J6-4618, 2023–2026). The first project is being led by the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana under the leadership of Dr Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik and carried out in cooperation with the Science and Research Centre Koper, the Celje Regional Museum and the Maritime Museum Piran. The second is led by the Science and Research Centre Koper and Institute of Architecture and Media at the Graz University of Technology, under the leadership of Dr Helena Motoh and Dr Gerald Kozicz and is being carried out in cooperation with the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Slovene Ethnographic Museum. Both projects are financed by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), while the latter is co-financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Main editor of the database and website: Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

Technical editors of the database and website: Tina Berdajs and Helena Motoh

Contributors (in alphabetical order): Tina Berdajs, Mina Grčar, Klara Hrvatin, Helena Motoh, Chikako Shigemori Bučar, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Nataša Visočnik Gerželj, Maja Veselič and students of MA programme at the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts University of Ljubljana.

Proofreaders: Rok Janežič and Abigail Graham

Technical support: Kreativna tovarna