Majda Širca

Majda Širca Ravnikar (born 20 April 1953) is a Slovenian art historian, journalist and politician.

She worked as a journalist at Slovenian State Television in cultural programming, especially dealing with art film.

During the centre-right government of Janez Janša between 2004 and 2008, she emerged as the main opposition speaker in culture and media policy, strongly criticizing conservative Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti.

After the victory of the leftist parties in the parliamentary election of 2008, she was appointed Minister of Culture in the government of Borut Pahor.

Majda Širca was married to the late Slovenian architect Vojteh Ravnikar.