Travel and exploration
The collection features over 250 traveller's journals, diaries and reports from various research, mountaineering, missionary, ethnographic and trading expeditions, diplomatic missions, grand tours, and other travels and journeys that have been published from the 16th to the 20th century. Among them are numerous journals and diaries from the English, French, German, Spanish, and other research expeditions of the late 18th and early 19th century from Sigismund Zois’s library. Among the authors are also well-known Slovenian travellers and explorers, as well as a couple of local and foreign travellers, who have described Slovenian territory.