For the past month, an open letter has been circulating among artists and academics in Slovenia. The letter, published on 17 November and currently bearing more than 1,000 signatures, denounces what it describes as the recently formed government’s repeated attempts to curtail cultural freedoms in the country over the past year. ‘The field of culture has been severely affected by the coronavirus epidemic, and it has been further affected by decisions at the Ministry of Culture that threaten living culture, cultural heritage, professionalism and autonomy of decision-making bodies and cultural institutions,’ the open letter reads. The letter, addressed to the Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti, criticises the government for its tactics in replacing two prominent museum directors in Ljubljana – Zdenka Badovinac, director of the Moderna Galerija since 1993, and Matevz Celik, director of the Museum of Architecture and Design since 2010 – despite their excellent international and domestic track records.