Advocacy Centre
The Advocacy Centre project is aimed at strengthening the rights of people with disabilities and supporting their lives in the community. The purpose of the project is to establish a safe, accessible, and professional advocacy service for people living in institutions or in the community, enabling them to express their will, exercise their rights, and be heard in decisions concerning their lives.
By taking on this project, the Museum of Madness continues its long-term work in the fields of human rights, mental health, community-based support, and deinstitutionalisation. The Centre will provide individual and group advocacy as well as legal support, while also contributing to raising awareness about the importance of deinstitutionalisation and the rights of persons with disabilities at both the local and national level.
Through this project, the Museum of Madness further strengthens its role as a space of memory, reflection, and social engagement, while actively co-creating the conditions for a more inclusive, just, and caring society.
Project is co-financed by the European Union, from the European Social Fund Plus. The project is implemented within the framework of Policy objective 4 "A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights" and Priority 7 "Long-term care and health, and social inclusion" of the specific objective ESO 4.11 "Strengthening equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services, including services that promote access to housing, and person-centred care services, including health care; modernising social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection, with a particular focus on children and disadvantaged groups; improving accessibility, including for people with disabilities, efficiency and resilience of health systems and long-term care services (ESS+)".
E-mail: info@muzejnorosti.eu
Project duration: December 2025 to October 2028
Project funder: European Social Fund plus, Ministry of Solidarity-Based Future, Republic of Slovenia
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Advocacy Centre
The Advocacy Centre project will provide individual and group advocacy as well as legal support for people with disabilities across Slovenia. The project supports the transition from institutional care to community-based living and strengthens the right to choice, dignity, autonomy, and being heard.
Go! Marko
Within the framework of European Capital of Culture 2025 in Nova Gorica & Gorizia, between June 8 and 13, 2025, the Museum of Madness took Marco Cavallo, the blue horse – a symbol of deinstitutionalisation – on a tour across Slovenia. The programme of the journey, titled Where Have We Come? We Have Come to You!, was dedicated to Franco Basaglia. Through theatre, film, and books, we raised awareness among the Slovenian public in Ljubljana, Maribor, Trate, and Nova Gorica, as well as among employees and residents of the institutions in Dutovlje and Hrastovec, about Basaglia’s psychiatric reforms and the urgent need for deinstitutionalisation.
Radio play as a space for marginalised voices to be heard – Deconstructing madness through sound and art
This artistic research project examines the relationship between voice, memory, and the space of a former social welfare institution. The project aims to create a space for reflection on the past, the body, and society's attitude towards mental health.
Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Cmurek Castle
This project highlights the forgotten historical layers of Cmurek Castle, an exceptional cultural monument
