Exhibitions
Presentation of Puppet Theatre FRU-FRU and Jerica Cvetko, Anja Gruden, Marina Hrovatin, Petra Petan and Peter Škerl, a doorway for young visitors into imagination and their first encounter with theatre, where puppets, music, and performances of beloved fairy tales and contemporary stories come together.
The panel exhibition in the outdoor atrium of the City Museum of Ljubljana presents the MGML Archaeological Centre, where archaeological finds begin a new life after excavations are completed. It reveals the heart of the work that usually remains hidden from public view — from cleaning, documenting and studying objects to their long-term preservation and archiving. The exhibition presents the people, processes and spaces that make it possible to understand the past and preserve archaeological heritage for the future.
The exhibition at the Treasury of the City Museum of Ljubljana offers a glimpse into the history of archaeological research in the area of Ljubljana Castle and highlights a selection of finds from the latest phase of excavations, which have been underway on the castle bastion since December 2025 and mark the conclusion of more than 60 years of research at this site.
The popular exclamation “Let’s go to the seaside!” promises a summer exhibition. The title may seem unusual for a museum in Ljubljana, but the exhibition presents its collection as a treasury of fragments illuminating the history of the idea of a summer holiday by the sea.
Over the past twenty years, the renowned Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra has created a portrait of our times by photographing people in their everyday lives. In collaboration with Fotomuseum Den Haag we present Hornstra's exhibition Ordinary People, that also includes several recent works shot in Slovenia from the Europeans project, which the photographer is developing with the writer Arnold van Bruggen.
For the fourth consecutive year, Plečnik House is hosting an exhibition of the recipients of the Plečnik Awards, Slovenia’s central national honours for outstanding achievements in architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and interior design. The awards are granted for realised projects within the Republic of Slovenia, as well as for works in Slovene communities abroad that contribute to the enrichment of spatial culture.
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.
The exhibition Vlasto Kopač: The Unwavering Humanist, first presented at the Plečnik House in 2023 on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the architect’s birth, is travelling to the Žiri Museum this year as part of the programme dedicated to the life and work of Vlasto Kopač.
Listen to the story of Ljubljana Mayor Ivan Hribar in Villa Zlatica.
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!
“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.
An overview exhibition of the renowned photographer and photojournalist Borut Krajnc offers an insightful look into the key social and political shifts of the Slovenian transition. Through high-profile photographic series such as Emptiness, Politics, and Pressure, the artist—acting as a chronicler of his time—visually exposes the impact of capitalism, political populism, and media and consumer saturation on everyday life.
The ninth edition of the Ljubljana Bows to Slovenia series showcases the exhibition Made in GT22, which figuratively represents an attempt to establish a structural framework for decentralizing dialogue within the Slovenian art system. A selection of works from the archive of Maribor’s artistic community and educational laboratory GT22 is transformed within the Ljubljana gallery space into a new collective work, with the content and form of the exhibition concept intended to guide visitors toward a physical manifestation of bowing and paying homage.
A commemorative exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of Slovenia’s most prominent artists, painters, and printmakers, as well as a leading figure of non-figurative and minimalist art, presents the artist’s rich creative oeuvre, which stands as an exceptional contribution to contemporary visual expression.
Presentation of the artist’s innovative visual expression, in which she introduces a diverse richness of content into painted images, with an emphasis on human figures placed within vast landscapes or barely perceptible outlines of maps, as well as urban spaces designed in grid-like structures.
Can a mother also be an artist? How important can sculpture be to her when war breaks out or in a post-war period with all its uncertainties? Everyone’s life reflects the era in which they live and the events that take place in it, and this is particularly true of the sculptor Liza Hribar, about whom we have long remained silent.
Z razstavo 'Ginkgo biloba – prišlek' v Plečnikovi hiši nadaljujemo niz projektov, v katerih k dialogu s Plečnikovo dediščino vabimo sodobne umetnike. Ti s svojimi avtorskimi pogledi vstopajo v prostore arhitektovega doma ter jih berejo na novo – skozi vprašanja in poglede našega časa.
Vas zanima, kako predmet iz globine zemlje prepotuje pot do svetle muzejske vitrine?
For the end of the year we are preparing an exhibition of the classics of Hungarian photography in collaboration with the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest and with the Liszt Institute in Ljubljana to mark the 10th anniversary of its founding. On display will be works by Hungarian masters who redefined 20th-century photography, including Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, and André Kertész.