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City Museum of Ljubljana

In focus

The most stunning artifact recovered beneath Gosposvetska Street.

The transparent blue glass bowl Its Greek inscription reads: "Drink to live forever, for many years!"

7. 2. 2019–18. 5. 2019

The transparent blue glass bowl found next to the woman’s body. The 1,700-year old vessel is decorated on the outside with grapes, and vine leafs and tendrils. A Greek inscription on the inside of the bowl instructs the owner to “Drink to live forever, for many years!”

City Art Gallery of Ljubljana

Survey exhibition of engaged comics

Iztok Sitar Under the Red Star

30. 1. 2019–24. 3. 2019

Reality knows no tranquility. A work of art either moves toward presenting reality or away from it in order to forge its own parallel reality: like any visual work of art, the comic lies within these principles of presenting any reality.

City Museum of Ljubljana

Cankar’s Year

Ivan Cankar

19. 6. 2018–7. 4. 2019

2018 = Cankar’s Year = commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of our greatest writer, and his rich body of work. The central exhibition project of the jubilee are two simultaneous exhibitions dedicated to Cankar, one at the Cankarjev dom (until 28. 2. 2019) and the other at the City Museum of Ljubljana.

Match Gallery

Boštjan Čadež - Fšk: Line Rider

12. 3. 2019–5. 5. 2019

The exhibition presents the story of the Line Rider web game (simulating a sledger going down the slopes), with which Boštjan Čadež - Fšk created a global phenomenon.

Match Gallery

Ben Harvey, a.k.a. Rabid Squirrel: A History of Line Rider

13 years of a niche subculture at the intersection of art and gaming

Match Gallery

Ben Harvey, a.k.a. Rabid Squirrel: A History of Line Rider

13 years of a niche subculture at the intersection of art and gaming

City Museum of Ljubljana

In focus

Find your own favourite period in Ljubljana’s history!

Ljubljana. History. 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!

Plečnik House

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.

City Museum of Ljubljana

Oton Župančič Memorial Collection

Permanent exhibition

The atmosphere of Župančič's rooms, his artistic work, and the objects accompanying him tell a story of both the artist and his time. Župančič’s literary oeuvre, in whose framework his last collection of poems Zimzelen pod snegom (The Evergreen beneath the Snow, 1945) is specially emphasised, encourages visitors to read the artist’s poems.

City Museum of Ljubljana

Tobacco Museum

Permanent exhibition

The Tobacco Museum – a collection of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana and Tobačna Ljubljana – emerged 20 years ago from close co-operation between the tobacco factory and the City Museum of Ljubljana.

RogLab Creative Hub

RogLab is a creative hub established in 2012 as part of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana. As a collaborative platform providing an encouraging environment for creators with its 3D workshop, RogLab responds to the challenges of today’s society and the urban environment by producing creative projects, while broadening the scope of its programme through a network of partner institutions. RogLab, Slovenia’s first public maker lab, gives creatives of all ages access to production tools and encourages the innovative use of maker technologies. In 2018, it received the prestigious Eurocities Innovation award.

Café

Take some time for yourself to enjoy a cup of coffee in the café of the City Museum of Ljubljana!

TAM-TAM’s Street Gallery

"Dogaja se / It is Happening" and "Takle mamo … / So it has come to this…" are two cycles of exhibitions, which form the 12-month "TAM-TAM’s Street Gallery" project, a TAM-TAM company project on Vegova street. In March 2018 the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana took the task of curating 12 exhibitions.

Also this year, Jakopič Gallery is the recipient of the Best Art Gallery Award

On 13 February the international guidebook Ljubljana In Your Pocket City Guide announced the results of the voting for of Best of Culture in Ljubljana 2019. The voters proclaimed Jakopič Gallery as the winner in the Best Art Gallery category.

14. February 2019

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Jakopič Gallery

Plečnik House in 2019: From a Rich Programme at the Plečnik House to a Presentation of Plečnik's Works at the Vatican and the Brijuni Islands

The National and University Library, Plečnik as Inspiration, Plečnik's Unrealised Projects for Ljubljana, Plečnik's sacral artefacts, and his last fully realised project, the pavilion on Brioni — all of them will leave a mark on the 2019 exhibition programme ...

21. January 2019

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Plečnik House

Photographs by Boris Gaberščik at Bežigrajski galeriji 1

Boris Gaberščik created 25 photographs specifically for this exhibition called The Fruit of a Long Experience in Bežigrad Gallery 1. Using completely analogue black-and-white photography to portray the world of everyday objects and inanimate nature, he nevertheless applies innovative creative ...

15. January 2019

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Bezigrad Gallery 1

In 2019, the Jakopič Gallery focuses primarily on the presentation of high quality Slovenian contemporary photography production

The Jakopič Gallery programme for 2019 is dedicated to the presentation of high quality Slovenian contemporary photography production and acclaimed foreign photographers.

4. January 2019

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Jakopič Gallery

The Match Gallery is starting 2019 with a bow to Kočevje

This year's Match Gallery programme will begin with the third exhibition in the series, titled "Ljubljana Bows to Slovenia", which features a group of artists whose life or work has been tied to Kočevje: Tina Đenadić, Mina Fina, Nataša ...

4. January 2019

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Match Gallery

The Image of a Letter and the Letter of an Image

Bežigrajska galerija 2 is presenting the painter’s personal vision of his own imaginations and – never fully elaborated – synchronicity between Old Church Slavonic Glagolitic script engraved in stone and typical, adopted coastal dry stone walls – gromače (pl.) (From the tekst ...

18. December 2018

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Bezigrad Gallery 2

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