Exhibitions

Today it is golden shopping carts that are bringing us to the new age. In the past, privatisation vouchers, large home appliances, self-management, games of military hide-and-seek, the earliest trade fairs, the struggle for workers’ rights, the first factories and factory-owners were likewise bringing us to new ages.

The World Lace Congress in Ljubljana gave us the opportunity to present a historical overview and the rich heritage of lace. The exhibition also offers an insight into the contemporary development and usage of this unique and singular craft of human hands and minds within modern art and fashion design. The exhibition of bobbin and needle lace at the City Museum of Ljubljana ends on 8 January 2017.

During the renovation of the Slovenska Street in the spring of 2015, archaeologists came across an incredible discovery of an almost 2000 years old Roman grave. The anthropological analysis of the bones and numerous grave goods, preserved under the stone lid for almost two millennia, point towards the fact that this was a grave of a female doctor, a surgeon, from the colony of Emona in the second half of the 1st century AD.

As one of the main cultural projects of the 2016 European Green Capital,  the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana is presenting the momentous  exhibition Genesis, a project by the world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado.

The exhibition Ljubljana Encircled by Barbed Wire (1942–1945) displays a special kind of terror which Ljubljana experienced during the Italian occupation in World War II.

The Ljubljanica riverbed and its banks were declared a cultural monument of national importance in 2003. The river’s connection with the rich cultural landscape of the Ljubljana Basin is a unique phenomenon that, due to its rare preservation, vastly enriches the cultural space of the Southeast Alps way beyond our national borders. The exhibition at the Krakovski nasip embankment, on view between 15 March and 14 April, displays the most recent results of the underwater archaeological research made on the of Roman dugout canoe found in Vrhnika.

Ljubljana is proud to be European Green Capital 2016! This prestogious title from the European Commision is a great honour and the highest recognition of our efforts to reach the primary goal of ensuring a high quality of life of our citizens in a beautiful and healthy environment.

The 200th anniversary of Julija Primic (1816–1864), the muse of France Prešeren and his poetry, will be commemorated with an exhibition of a ball dress, which was tailored after Langus’ famous portrait of Julija Primic. The young woman is depicted in a fashionable white Biedermeier dress and draped with a blue veil. On view on 8 February!

For the Slovenian Cultural Holiday, 8 February, we are opening a new show connected with the exhibition WATER that will present engineering achievements of Roman Emona. The exhibition will display a Roman stone altar, which was found during archaeological excavations at the Slovenska Street. The exhibition, hosted by the City Museum of Ljubljana, ends on 8 May 2016.

Water has been associated with the creation of our planet and the existence of human beings. A building block of the planet Earth, water covers almost three thirds of its surface – which is almost the same ratio as within the human body. Water was also precisely what inspired these photographers, travellers and humanitarians to take pictures and display them at the One Planet, One Water exhibition in Ljubljana’s Tivoli Park. Their works demonstrate beauty, remind us of the injustices, chronicle life and search for inspiration.

2015 marked the 140th anniversary of the discovery of the pile dwellings in the Ljubljana Marshes. To commemorate the anniversary, the City Museum of Ljubljana is currently hosting the exhibition An Enormous Find - First Pile Dwellings discovery on Ljubljana Marsh. Exclusively on display for this exhibition is also the oldest wooden wheel in the world. The wheel will be displayed at the museum's Treasury Room until 4 February 2016.

Potovalna torba Rajka Paulina z njegovim taboriščnim imetjem je del razstavnega projekta Pot domov, s katerim obeležujemo stoletnico začetka  bojev ob reki  Soči (1915 – 2015) in sedemdesetletnico konca druge  svetovne vojne  (1945 – 2015).

Razstava otroških risb iz obleganih Nubskih gora v Sudanu avtorjev Bojane Pivk Križnar in Toma Križnarja.

Using a variety of locations around Phoenix, Arizona (US), the artist’s home since 2009, Surfaces is a pictorial study of the surprising visual confluence and tension between flat surfaces and spatial depth, using digital photography. City Museum Café will host the exhibition from 1 October until 2 November 2015.

The Netherlands would be largely inhabitable without its flood defence and water management structures. A majority of the country is below the sea level; storm water and rivers present additional danger.

Do not miss the mysterious image of ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA. Miracle and forgery, a work of art or a relic? In the City Museum's Treasury will be on display until Friday, 15 November 2015.

We exist on a water planet.70% of its surface is covered by water and  97% of it is salt water, 2% is fresh water in the form of ice and only  the remaining 1% is drinking water, which is divided around the planet  very irregularly. The Slovenian capital with its hinterland can boast  rich water resources that enabled 5,000 years of continuous habitation  and are still freely accessible today.

We cordially invite you to a visit to the exhibition Museums Connect: Albanian Community at the MGML, on display at the City Museum of Ljubljana from 20 May to 20 June 2015.

In 2015 we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Max Fabiani’s birth. The museum is commemorating the anniversary of the famous architect and urban planner with Fabiani’s Legacy in Ljubljana. The exhibition presents Fabiani’s regulation plans that outlined the long-term urban development of Ljubljana after the 1895 earthquake, as well as his other executed works in Ljubljana.

On Thursday, 2 April, at 5.00 pm we opened the exhibition of puppets created by preschoolers, school pupils and families for the Little Museum competition. Every received work showed plenty of imagination and interest in how the citizens of Emona lived.The exhibition will be on display until 14 June 2015.