Ljubljana
MGML
Plečnik and Ljubljana: Shaping Open Space
Landscaping of Zvezda Park according to Plečnik's plan; chestnut trees removed and new plane trees planted, 1941 © Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Plečnik House

Karunova 4–6
1000 Ljubljana



T +386 1 280 16 04 (reception)
T +386 1 241 25 06
E plecnik@mgml.si

Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 10:00–14:00

Visits of the original Plečnik’s home are only possible with a guided tour that begins every full hour. In case the visitors on the guided tours come from different countries, each tour is conducted in two languages – Slovenian and English.
RECOMMENDED: you can buy your tickets online and book your date here.
For more information, please contact plecnik@mgml.si or +386 1 280 16 04.

Visiting the Plečnik House (price includes permanent exhibition Plečnik and a guided tour of Plečnik's home)
Adults: 9 €
Students: 7 €
Children: 7 €
Adults over the age of 60: 7 €
Families: 18 €
Unemployed visitors: 7 €
Visitors with disabilities: 7 €
Free admission for carers
ICOM, PRESS, SMD: free admission

Guided tours for private groups of more than 7 visitors need to be booked at least 5 working days in advance.

Visiting the Plečnik House with a prior reservation
Groups of up to 5 persons: 50 €, 40 € at reduced price
Groups of over 5 persons: 10 €/person, reduced 8 €/person

Visiting the permanent exhibition Plečnik
Adults: 6 €
Students: 4 €
Children: 4 €
Adults over the age of 60: 4 €
Families: 12 €
Unemployed visitors: 4 €
Visitors with disabilities: 4 €
Free admission for carers
ICOM, PRESS, SMD: free admission

Plečnik and Ljubljana: Shaping Open Space

2. 2. 2024–12. 5. 2024

The exhibition marking the start of the exhibition year 2024 at Plečnik House presents the findings of Darja Pergovnik, MA, heritage conservator at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. Namely, her work has, for several years, been focused on studying and protecting Plečnik's built and green arrangements in Ljubljana.

Plečnik oeuvre in Ljubljana is extensive and diverse, detailed in numerous books, expert texts, and exhibitions. However, his work in shaping open spaces is less covered in publications, even though this aspect, one of the key chapters in Plečnik’s creativity, significantly contributed to the fact that some of his works are now on the UNESCO World Heritage List. 

Ljubljana contains more than 60 cultural monuments of national importance, and many among them include open space arrangements or are even completely independent units. Plečnik designed parks and gardens and arranged streets, squares, and embankments, through which he co-shaped the public urban space. His urban development plan for Ljubljana from 1928, titled Study for the Regulation of Ljubljana and Its Surroundings, proved his familiarity with the city as it included numerous arrangements that were later implemented through more detailed plans. His design concepts were not created spontaneously or solely based on the proposal of a gardener, as is often stated, but were executed according to plans drawn in multiple variations, and usually with additional modifications just before implementation.

New elements were used in some interventions, while others reused older ones. Most often, however, it was a combination of both. This is why we can, from today’s perspective, argue that Plečnik had a human-centric, holistic, visionary, or even, a sustainable approach to his work, which should not be taken for granted nowadays. His spatial arrangements are thus becoming ever more relevant and worthy of detailed studies.


The exhibition presents Plečnik's principles of spatial planning in Ljubljana with concrete examples, and archival photographs, provided for the exhibition from the Plečnik Collection (MGML), the IPCHS Archives, the Historical Archives of Ljubljana, photographer Peter Naglič's archive, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, the National Museum of Contemporary History, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. These are complemented by contemporary photographs from Matevž Paternoster and Plečnik's plans from the Plečnik Collection (MGML).

Plečnik House

Karunova 4–6
1000 Ljubljana



T +386 1 280 16 04 (reception)
T +386 1 241 25 06
E plecnik@mgml.si

Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 10:00–14:00

Visits of the original Plečnik’s home are only possible with a guided tour that begins every full hour. In case the visitors on the guided tours come from different countries, each tour is conducted in two languages – Slovenian and English.
RECOMMENDED: you can buy your tickets online and book your date here.
For more information, please contact plecnik@mgml.si or +386 1 280 16 04.

Visiting the Plečnik House (price includes permanent exhibition Plečnik and a guided tour of Plečnik's home)
Adults: 9 €
Students: 7 €
Children: 7 €
Adults over the age of 60: 7 €
Families: 18 €
Unemployed visitors: 7 €
Visitors with disabilities: 7 €
Free admission for carers
ICOM, PRESS, SMD: free admission

Guided tours for private groups of more than 7 visitors need to be booked at least 5 working days in advance.

Visiting the Plečnik House with a prior reservation
Groups of up to 5 persons: 50 €, 40 € at reduced price
Groups of over 5 persons: 10 €/person, reduced 8 €/person

Visiting the permanent exhibition Plečnik
Adults: 6 €
Students: 4 €
Children: 4 €
Adults over the age of 60: 4 €
Families: 12 €
Unemployed visitors: 4 €
Visitors with disabilities: 4 €
Free admission for carers
ICOM, PRESS, SMD: free admission

News

First Gentleman of Slovenia and the Ambassador of the Czech Republic visited the Plečnik House

Today, the Plečnik House had the honour of welcoming two distinguished guests: Dr Aleš Musar, First Gentleman of the Republic of Slovenia, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Slovenia, Jiří Kuděla. Both guests visited the current exhibition 'Plečnik and Ljubljana: Shaping Open Space' in the company of Blaž Peršin, Director of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ana Porok, Curator of the Plečnik House, and the exhibition’s author, Darja Pergovnik, MA, from the IPCHS.

4. March 2024
Plečnik House

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