The 1990s were marked by a great diversification in programmes and services, a number of dynamic exhibitions and the return of visitors to museums. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Culture, 30 museums and their 82 branches around Slovenia offered 124 permanent exhibitions and 256 temporary and guest exhibitions in 2001, which attracted around 707,300 visitors. 41 exhibitions of the Idrija Municipal Museum (and its branches) were visited by more than 200,000 visitors, while the Ptuj Regional Museum, with its 28 exhibitions, had around 63,000 visitors. The branches of the City Museum of Ljubljana were among the most visited venues.

A permanent exhibition that has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years is the exhibition 'To Live in Celje', which was prepared by the Celje Museum of Contemporary History and for which in 2001 the authors received the Valvasor Award, the highest award in Slovene museology. In the same year the Celje Museum of Contemporary History was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) for the way in which it reconsidered recent history. The National Museum of Contemporary History and the Technical Museum of Slovenia embarked on renovations of their permanent exhibition. The latest and most successful domestic temporary exhibitions include 'The Counts of Celje' at Celje Regional Museum, and 'The Celts' at Dolenjska Museum, Novo mesto.

In 2002 the Museum of Christianity in Slovenia installed its permanent collection 'The History of Christianity in Slovenia' and Gorenjska Museum, Kranj set up its archaeological exhibition under the title 'The Iron Thread'. Bela krajina Museum, Metlika also renovated its permanent exhibition. In 2003 the exhibition 'Fluvio Frigido-Castro Flavio' was opened in Ajdovščina. In 2004 the Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum, Piran set up the so-called Street Museum in Izola. The Mikl House Museum in Ribnica set up its new permanent exhibition 'The Greatness of the Minor'. The National Museum of Slovenia opened a new Roman lapidarium in 2006, and in the same year the Slovene Ethnographic Museum set up the first permanent exhibition 'Between Nature and Culture' at its new premises. In Cerkno an exhibition on the carnival and carnival masks was presented, and the Maribor Regional Museum also began to renew its collection. In 2007 a new permanent exhibition entitled 'The Faces of Ljubljana' was opened at the renovated City Museum of Ljubljana. The city is presented as a diverse living space, and as an economic, political, administrative and creative centre, not in chronological order but through individual aspects of its development - themes in which selected images of the city and its famous inhabitants are presented. The authors of these exhibitions were granted the Valvasor Award.

Visitor development activities are focused mainly on educational programmes. In most museums these programmes are quite varied, and the following certainly stand out for quality: Herman's Den (the only childrens' museum in Slovenia), which is a part of the Celje Museum of Contemporary History; Ptuj Regional Museum; the National Gallery of Slovenia; and the Technical Museum of Slovenia, whose educational programme is mostly intended for the general public. Some museums (notably Dolenjska Museum, Novo mesto, the Celje Museum of Contemporary History, the National Gallery of Slovenia, the Technical Museum of Slovenia and the City Museum of Ljubljana) run their own museum friends' schemes.