Ljubljana
MGML
City Museum of Ljubljana
Spaces of Movement
Spaces of Movement 40 years of Ljubljana’s LGBT Community
24. 10. 2024–23. 3. 2025

On the spaces for gathering, support, and organized advocacy of the LGBT movement, which have been shaping the urban culture and social life of the capital for 40 years.

Jakopič Gallery
Our Claim
Our Claim Slovenian Protest Photography 2020-2022
1. 10. 2024–26. 1. 2025

Photography remains the key tool for documenting important social movements because, despite the challenges of the digital era, it maintains the position of a witness and the ability to tell stories. The exhibition Our Claim: Slovenian Protest Photography 2020-2022 presents the period marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrations across Slovenia and highlights the role and meaning of photography in recording social events and valuing of our common heritage. The exhibition features more than 250 photographs by 38 photographers and will be also expanded with photographs by visitors until mid-January.

City Museum of Ljubljana
From Corset to Jacket
From Corset to Jacket How the People of Ljubljana Dressed, 1850–1950
11. 4. 2024–23. 2. 2025

Join us on a journey through time with an exhibition on significant changes in the world of clothing. The exhibition will open the doors to the world of dressing as a distinct form of communication, revealing societal shifts and individual milestones that influenced the decisions of our ancestors on how to dress.

Bezigrad Gallery 1
Natalija Šeruga Golob
Paintings and video
Natalija Šeruga Golob From the Collection of W. B.: Protocol (Presence of J. P.)
13. 11. 2024–24. 12. 2024

The exhibition entitled From the Collection of W. B.: Protocol (Presence of J. P.) will feature ten paintings from 2023 and a video from 2019. The works on display are linked by a painting concept in which the author perceives time as a painterly competitor.

Plečnik House
Plečnik House with a permanent 'Plečnik' exhibition
a pearl of Slovenian cultural heritage of 20th century
Plečnik House with a permanent 'Plečnik' exhibition
Permanent exhibition

“A tower, a mule, me and the garden” – that is how Jože Plečnik imagined his life when he didn’t know yet that after Vienna and Prague his native Ljubljana would be his lifetime’s environment for his creative work.

Plečnik House
BART LUNENBURG: To decide where the shadow falls
BART LUNENBURG: To decide where the shadow falls
18. 10. 2024–26. 1. 2025

Within the exhibition projects of contemporary interpretation of Plečnik's heritage, this year we have invited Bart Lunenburg, an innovative and promising multidisciplinary artist of the younger generation, to participate. The project is a collaboration with RAVNIKAR, a contemporary visual arts gallery, and with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Slovenia and the Dutch foundation Mondriaan Fund for visual arts and cultural heritage.

City Museum of Ljubljana
TURN INTO THE WALL
TURN INTO THE WALL New mural on the museum inner facade
Permanent exhibition

A tribute to the museum as a place of encounter and dialogue.

City Museum of Ljubljana
Ljubljana. History. City.
Find your own favourite period in Ljubljana’s history!
Ljubljana. History. City. Discover the Spirit of the City!
Permanent exhibition

How well do you know the rich history of Slovenian capital? Pile-dwellers, Emona, Middle and New Ages, the 20th and 21st centuries… what is the history of Ljubljana? Get to know Ljubljana's past - see the chronological presentation of Ljubljana’s millennia of heritage with precious authentic artefacts, like the world's oldest wooden wheel with an axle!

Villa Zlatica
Ivan Hribar and the Ljubljana Bourgeoisie
Poklon Ivanu Hribarju in njegovi hčerki dr. Zlatici Hribar
Ivan Hribar and the Ljubljana Bourgeoisie
Permanent exhibition

Listen to the story of Ljubljana Mayor Ivan Hribar in Villa Zlatica.

City Museum of Ljubljana
CHALLENGE: TOMORROW'S YESTERDAY
CHALLENGE: TOMORROW'S YESTERDAY The Secondary School of Design and Photography Ljubljana
17. 4. 2024–23. 2. 2025

The central theme of the final assignment was Challenge: Tomorrow’s Yesterday, developed in collaboration with the City Museum of Ljubljana. Each student set off on a journey exploring paintings, portraits and objects exhibited in the museum. Next, they immersed into the theme and searched for inspiration, which culminated in the prodigious diversity of collections thus developed.

City Museum of Ljubljana
LJBLJNČN/BLACK
LJBLJNČN/BLACK The Faculty of Design
17. 4. 2024–23. 2. 2025

In developing their design concept, 1st and 2nd year students in the Faculty of Design’s Fashion and Textiles track drew on the City Museum of Ljubljana’s permanent collection.

City Museum of Ljubljana
Button Finds from Ljubljana Castle
The exhibition is linked to the From Corset to Jacket. How the People of Ljubljana Dressed, 1850–1950 project.
Button Finds from Ljubljana Castle From Ornament to Function
18. 9. 2024–23. 2. 2025

During archaeological research at Ljubljana Castle, a proper button making workshop was documented. It was in operation in the 19th century, during a time when the castle building had been turned into a penitentiary.

Bezigrad Gallery 2
From Nature and Places
Paintings, drawings, prints, objects and photographs
From Nature and Places The collection of the Izlake-Zagorje Art Colony
20. 11. 2024–19. 12. 2024

An overview exhibition of selected works by artists who have participated in the Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony since 1964.The artworks were created in urban, industrial and natural environments of Izlake and Zagorje, and form part of the collection of the Izlake–Zagorje Art Colony.

News

The 1st edition of Klavdij Sluban's "Nekje drugje Tukaj / Elsewhere Here" photomonograph, that accompany the actual exhibition in our gallery, was sold out at the end of May. That's why we've produced a 2nd, revised and expanded international ...

28. June 2024
Jakopič Gallery

Free entry to all museums and galleries. Doors open from 18.00 to 24.00!

31. May 2024
City Museum of Ljubljana

Dr Marija Skočir, Art Gallery Director and Curator of the Jakopič Gallery, will be among the 165 international experts in the field of photography taking part in this year's Photo Folio Review at the renowned French photography festival Les Rencontres ...

16. May 2024
Jakopič Gallery

We are inviting you to participate in a creative competition that we are organising alongside our international partners as part of the European project Open Atelier - a Creative Europe project

6. May 2024
Plečnik House

Photographer Blaž Gutman's project Seventy Years Ago Was Seven Minutes Ago made it onto the shortlist of 19 projects at Kranj Foto Fest 2024 out of 1,014 submissions from all over the world. He developed this intimate project about dementia ...

30. April 2024
Jakopič Gallery

On Friday and Saturday, 5 and 6 April 2024, the Plečnik's Ljubljana hackathon was happening at the Plečnik House, an event organised by the house's team as part of Open Atelier, a Creative Europe Programme. The winning team of the ...

11. April 2024
Plečnik House

Stay in touch with us!

Be the first to know about new exhibitions, events, and everything else that occurs at the MGML.

Subscribe