Vodnik Homestead

As part of the renovation, a new bookshop opened in a smaller building of the homestead, historically known as Pri kamniti mizi. The bookshop, which also functions as an event space, offers a carefully curated selection of new releases, comics, genre fiction, humanities and social sciences, poetry, and children’s books. It also focuses on selected geographical and linguistic areas, whose very names highlight their plurality: Latin American, South Slavic, Asian, and African literatures.
The space includes a stage that, during the summer months, opens outdoors into the homestead garden.

On the ground floor of Vodnikova domačija operates the Illustration Centre, featuring a sales corner of illustrations by Slovenian artists, a reading room, and a small exhibition space.

The programme and distinctive atmosphere of Vodnikova domačija are curated by the Divja misel Institute, also known as the organiser of the annual Ljubljana event Knjižnica pod krošnjami (Library Under the Treetops), which brings books and reading corners into parks and courtyards across the city. At the end of each school year, it also organises a full-day Children’s Book Festival in the park behind Cankarjev dom. Together with programme partners from the fields of literature and music, Divja misel co-creates events, workshops, and thematic exhibitions for book lovers of all ages.

Vodnikova domačija hosts festivals dedicated to books and illustration, including the Adriatic Wave Festival, the Festival of Engaged Writing Itn., Krimifest (a crime fiction festival), and the December Illustration Fair.