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We will examine the beginnings of museums in Slovenia and their first publishing pro-jects, from the first editions of the Carniola Regional Museum in 1832, to the end of the Second World War. We will draw attention to the importance of museums in the development of scientific and professional journalism. The first museum in Slovenia was today’s National Museum of Slovenia, which was founded in 1821 and is our old-est continuously operating cultural and scientific institution. Museum societies and museums were the first institutions in Slovenia where scientists and experts gathered, and through their collecting, exhibiting, research, teaching and publishing activities, they played one of the central roles in the development of both local history and natu-ral science disciplines. Museums and galleries all over the world issue publications, thereby significantly complementing their mission of knowledge transfer. The found-ers of Slovenian museums already wrote this in the relevant founding acts upon their establishment, and most museums fulfilled this mission already in the first years of their operation. The first museum publications were issued in the form of small book-lets in which they presented their mission, collecting policy, spatial issues and collec-tions. They published guides, which included presentations of emerging collections, exhibition catalogues, separates of particularly important local history contributions, as well as scientific monographic publications, prepared by museum curators or mem-bers of museum societies. In particular, museum serial publications were of great im-portance for the development of professional and scientific journalism in Slovenia and in the Slovenian language. The paper is accompanied by a bibliography of publica-tions by Slovenian museums and galleries between 1832 and 1945.We will examine the beginnings of museums in Slovenia and their first publishing pro-jects, from the first editions of the Carniola Regional Museum in 1832, to the end of the Second World War. We will draw attention to the importance of museums in the development of scientific and professional journalism. The first museum in Slovenia was today’s National Museum of Slovenia, which was founded in 1821 and is our old-est continuously operating cultural and scientific institution. Museum societies and museums were the first institutions in Slovenia where scientists and experts gathered, and through their collecting, exhibiting, research, teaching and publishing activities, they played one of the central roles in the development of both local history and natu-ral science disciplines. Museums and galleries all over the world issue publications, thereby significantly complementing their mission of knowledge transfer. The found-ers of Slovenian museums already wrote this in the relevant founding acts upon their establishment, and most museums fulfilled this mission already in the first years of their operation. The first museum publications were issued in the form of small book-lets in which they presented their mission, collecting policy, spatial issues and collec-tions. They published guides, which included presentations of emerging collections, exhibition catalogues, separates of particularly important local history contributions, as well as scientific monographic publications, prepared by museum curators or mem-bers of museum societies. In particular, museum serial publications were of great im-portance for the development of professional and scientific journalism in Slovenia and in the Slovenian language. The paper is accompanied by a bibliography of publica-tions by Slovenian museums and galleries between 1832 and 1945.