Slovenia’s oldest scientific institution presents the country’s natural wonders: the 60 000-year-old Neanderthal flute, a near-complete woolly mammoth, Baron Zois’s mineral treasure, the elusive olm and immersive dioramas of Alpine peaks and Karst caves. Housed in an 1885 Neo-Renaissance palace beside Tivoli Park, the museum is a gateway to Slovenia’s deep past and living biodiversity.