Ljubljana
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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
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!
City Museum of Ljubljana
The history of the exploration of Emona goes back several centuries and is full of thrills and exciting finds, of things forgotten and rediscovered.
The first major excavations of Emona Archaeology from a historical perspective
17. 12. 2019–23. 2. 2020
Major restoration works carried out in Ljubljana over the last two decades, along with the rescue excavations that accompanied them, have again put Emona, our capital’s Roman predecessor, in the spotlight. Once more we have seen that almost everywhere in Ljubljana we have Roman remains beneath our feet.
Plečnik House
ZARADI ZANIMANJA PODALJŠANO ZA EN TEDEN
Plečnik’s Unrealised Projects for Ljubljana
18. 10. 2019–2. 2. 2020
The exhibition will unveil how would the city look if Plečnik was able to realise four major metropolitan projects for Ljubljana: New Town Hall, Butchers’ Bridge, monumental octagon with an impressive tower on the Castle Hill and Cathedral of Freedom in Tivoli Park.
City Museum of Ljubljana
A major exhibition about the achievements of the Early Modern Period in Ljubljana
BOOK. KNOWLEDGE. REASON. From Protestantism to Enlightenment (1500–1800)
14. 11. 2019–30. 8. 2020
Our annual exhibition Book. Knowledge. Reason. presents the processes and events that encouraged and fostered the cultural and spiritual development in Ljubljana from the end of the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century – from humanism and Protestantism to the Enlightenment.
Bezigrad Gallery 2
Paintings, sculptures and prints
Lojze Spacal (1907–2000): From the Littoral and the Karst Region
30. 12. 2019–8. 2. 2020
Lojze Spacal (1907–2000), is world-renowned and recognised as a graphics artist and is counted among the most important Slovenian artists of the 20th century. His retrospective exhibition, part of the series of historical and commemorative exhibitions at the Bežigrad Gallery will present paintings, sculptures, and prints from Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Javni zavod Komenski Kras, Štanjel and private collections made in the period between 1945 and 1995.
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!

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Vision 20/20: photographers are selected

We are pleased to report that the VISION 20/20 exhibition on contemporary Indonesian photography is shaping up nicely. For the last two days the curators Marija Skočir (Jakopič Gallery-Slovenia), Ng Swan Ti (PannaFoto Institute-Indonesia) and Saša Kralj (Živi Atelje DK-Croatia) ...

15. January 2020
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Jakopič Gallery
The Story of the Škorjanc Chalice Carries a Rich Symbolic Message

If you noticed the poster or visited the exhibition Plečnik and the Sacred, Jože Plečnik, Slovenian Architect and Designer, you have surely seen the Škorjanc Chalice as the exhibition’s iconic artefact. Its photograph is on all accompanying publications. What ...

5. December 2019
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Plečnik House
The Match Gallery is starting 2020 with a bow to Klagenfurt

The programme in 2020 will begin with the fourth exhibition in the series "Ljubljana Bows to Slovenia", linking Ljubljana with topical regional art initiatives and collectives – this time with Klagenfurt.

5. December 2019
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Match Gallery
Jakopič Gallery in 2020

From contemporary Indonesian photography to Slovenian press photography

5. December 2019
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Jakopič Gallery
For the 100th Anniversary of the University of Ljubljana, the Mayor of Ljubljana Presented the University’s Rector the Rector’s Chain Made after Plečnik’s Original Designs

Today, 3 December 2019, the University of Ljubljana commemorated its hundredth anniversary with a formal sitting. At the sitting, the Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Janković presented a precious gift to the rector, Prof. Dr. Igor Papič, in the name of ...

3. December 2019
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Plečnik House
Vision 20/20, results of the open call

We are proud to announce the results of the call for applications Vision 20/20 for Indonesian photographers to participate at the exhibition in Jakopič Gallery in 2020.

21. November 2019
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Jakopič Gallery