The First World War had long-term consequences for the protection of cultural heritage. Due to the war, institutions caring for various cultural-historical collections were forced to change their everyday mode of functioning, while after the war many, especially those in the newly formed states, found themselves in totally changed circumstances. At this time in Carniola one of the key figures involved in such protection in the widest sense was the director of the Provincial Museum, Josip Mantuani. As soon as the war ended he produced a report in which he described the whole system of the protection of cultural heritage in the newly unified Slovene territory. Although only general guidlines were presented, which would later need to be worked on in more detail, it is the case that cultural-historical collections in Slovene lands later developed in line with the guidelines that Mantuani sketched out in his report in 1918.
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