The contribution from the last meeting of the Yugoslav archivists
(Postojna, October 1989) presents the conception of the museum
and archive material in the postwar legislation, some
considerations about relations among the museums and archives
in literature, reports especially about the results of the
questionnaire among the Slovene museums. Presentation of the
viewpoints and practice of the museum experts as to the
problems of defining the limits between museum and archive
material, as well as collecting, keeping and treating the archives
Im museums may stimulate solutions, which will be of use to our
common care - cultural inheritance.