Exhibitions

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.

V kavarni Mestnega muzeja je na ogled razstava Bogastvo in raznolikost klekljanih čipk na Slovenskem, katero so se slovenske klekljarice julija 2014 odmevno predstavile na 16. svetovnem čipkarskem kongresu OIDFA v Adelajdi v Južni Avstraliji.

Da  bi slepim in slabovidnim otrokom omogočili polnejše življenje, so študentke in študenti študijskega programa 2. stopnje smeri  Inkluzivna pedagogika na Pedagoški fakulteti Koper, Univerze na  Primorskem izdelali različne pripomočke, igrače in tipne slikanice, ki otrokom s posebnimi potrebami omogočajo polnejše življenje.

The exhibition Farwell, Factory. Memories of Forgotten Workers presents stories from ten of Ljubljana's factories: Dekorativna Ljubljana fabric factory, Tiskarna Mladinska knjiga printing plant, Pletenina textile factory, Tobačna Ljubljana tobacco plant, Tiskarna Ljudske pravice printing plant, Iron foundry in Šiška, Avtomontaža workshop and the factories of Gorenje Tiki and Rog.

The Hildesheim Treasure ranks among the biggest silver hoards from the period when the Roman Republic was being transformed into an empire.

With the Emona: a City of the Empire exhibition, the City Museum of Ljubljana is joining the citywide celebration of the 2000th anniversary of Emona, the first urban settlement in the area of today's Ljubljana. Enter the world of remarkable Roman achievements and Emona’s echoes in the 20th century.

The last accompanying exhibition of the Wheel, 5200 Years exhibition, titled Underwater Archaeological Research, was created in collaboration with the Institute of Maritime archaeology. It presents the complex archaeological research done in the last five years in the Ljubljanica and its tributaries.

The current accompanying exhibition is a product of a successful collaboration with the interested public. The exhibition's author, Andrej Pretnar, is an architect with an interest in innovations, while also admiring the works of our predecessors. The maker of the prehistoric cart inspired him to such a degree to name him »Master craftsman« and to make a study and a reconstruction of the oldest cart.

Participants of the »Little Museum« project, our museum collaborators aged 9 to 14, prepared an exhibition titled Pile dwellers through the eyes of children, which will showcase various pile-dwelling models and ingenious drawings and paintings of various scenes from a prehistoric pile dwelling. All works were selected through a competition aimed at families, kindergartens and schools.

Ste vedeli, da so v obdobju med obema vojnama v Ljubljani prirejali Črno-belo reduto – elitni pustni ples? Udeležila se ga je tudi Ljubljančanka, ki se je domiselno preobrazila v Šahovsko kraljico. Pustni kostum šahovske kraljice iz 30. let 20. stoletja je na ogled v kavarni Mestnega muzeja med 18. februarjem in 5. marcem.

The exhibition's authors; Assoc. Prof. David Stopar, Katja Kavkler, Phd, Irena Šinkovec and Katarina Toman Kracina are presenting contemporary activities on the field of wet wood preservation in Slovenia. The show will also display several preserved objects and you will be able to touch water-filled wood samples.

The UNESCO organisation is the focus of this year's first accompanying exhibition of the Wheel - 5,200 Years.

On the International Day of People with Disability and the cultural event This Merry Day of Culture, 11 authors will guide you through the Wheel of Fortune exhibition. Their work and energy breaks fears and prejudices. All events and exhibitions are free of charge on this day. The museum will stay open to 9 p.m.

Between November 28 and December 31, 2013, the City Museum's café is hosting an installation dedicated to lacemakers. The exhibition honours the 250th anniversary of the Ljubljana lace-making school, the first of its kind in today's Slovenia.

The exhibition »Inventions Without Borders« presents contemporary inventions from independent Slovenian innovators.

Due to its preserved natural and a diverse cultural landscape the Ljubljana Moor is protected as a regional park. In its seven municipalities about 12 thousand inhabitants reside, whose lives are still closely connected to the Ljubljana Plain and local traditions.

Razstava prikazuje diplomska dela treh diplomantov mentorja prof.  Miloša Florjančiča in somentorja doc. Mitje Zorca iz Fakultete za  arhitekturo, Univerze v Ljubljani. Diplomska dela se ukvarjajo z različnimi tipi muzejev, vsa pa jih umeščajo v središče Ljubljane in opozarjajo na možne izboljšave mestnega  partnerja.

Dr. Tomaž Podobnikar's photo exhibition focuses on glimpses of life in the surroundings of Burma’s shallow lakes, where people developed real pile dwellings and surrounded them with floating gardens.