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Exhibitions

Current
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.

Current
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.

Current
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.

Current
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.

Current
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.

Current
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.

Current
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!

Upcoming
Archaeological park Emona
Archaeological park Emona
15. 5. 2025–15. 9. 2025

A special place in Ljubljana's history is reserved for Roman Emona, the traces of which have been preserved in the very centre of the city.

Welcome to a trail tracing the 2000-year-old heritage of Emona. A walk through modern Ljubljana can take you further than you think! It takes you to the time of Emona, a city brimming with life between the first century and early sixth century. 

Past exhibitions

The Unknown Kingdom
Razširjamo in raziskujemo teme iz zgodovine Ljubljane.
The Unknown Kingdom“Illyria or what you will”
6. 6. 2024–29. 9. 2024
In 1897, a cycling club in Ljubljana was named after Ilirija (Illyria), in 1904 a street, in 1911 a football club, somewhere in the years before WWI, a chemical products factory, and finally in 1929, Ilirija got its own monument.
Bogastvo oblačilnih sponk iz Emone
Ob razstavi Od korzeta do žaketa
Bogastvo oblačilnih sponk iz EmoneZapenjanje v času pred gumbi
18. 5. 2024–15. 9. 2024
Kako so si Emončani zapenjali obleke, ko še niso poznali gumbov?
Ivan Cankar Memorial Room
Ivan Cankar Memorial Room
1. 5. 2024–27. 10. 2024
Ivan Cankar, a Slovenian author, playwright and essayist born in 1876 in Vrhnika, spent a few years of his life in Ljubljana. Having returned from Vienna to Ljubljana, he established himself on Rožnik Hill which today forms part of the Tivoli, Rožnik and Šišenski hrib landscape park.
Ivan Standl - a Zagreb photographer
Gostujoča razstava Muzeja mesta Zagreb
Ivan Standl - a Zagreb photographerVisiting exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum
12. 3. 2024–5. 5. 2024
The legacy of portrait and field photography of the city of Zagreb in the 19th century.
Priložnostna razstava kolažev in besedil ob razstavi Slovenske umetnice v obdobju 1850–1950
Priložnostna razstava kolažev in besedil ob razstavi Slovenske umetnice v obdobju 1850–1950
7. 2. 2024–25. 2. 2024
Razmišljanje in likovno ustvarjanje dijakinj in dijakov 1. letnikov Gimnazije Poljane po ogledu razstave Slovenske umetnice v Mestnem muzeju Ljubljana.
The silver beaker from a castle table setting
The silver beaker from a castle table settingTreasure from the medival castle on top of Jeterbenk
1. 2. 2024–12. 5. 2024
The Silver Beaker was found on the northern slope of Jeterbenk Hill, not far from the remains of the towered castle of the Spanheim ministerials, the Hertenbergers.

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