Exhibitions
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.
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.
Občasna razstava posvečena slovenskim avtorjem moderne in njihovim sopotnikom z drugih področij kulture in ustvarjanja ter njihovim stikom s češko moderno.
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.
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.
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.
The Jakopič Gallery presents the largest ever mid-career retrospective exhibition of Klavdij Sluban, one of the world's most renowned photographers of Slovenian origin. For the exhibition Elsewhere Here the artist and the curator Dr Marija Skočir, have conceived a completely new selection of cycles that present the highlights of more than three decades of Sluban's work in more than 150 photographs. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive photomontograph, which is also available as a special edition.
A tribute to the museum as a place of encounter and dialogue.
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.
Kako so si Emončani zapenjali obleke, ko še niso poznali gumbov?
Every year, The Architect Jože Plečnik Foundation announces the Plečnik Awards, the main public recognition of Slovenian authors for their outstanding creations in the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture or interior design. This year's prize and award winners are presented in an exhibition at the Plečnik House.
A commemorative exhibition honouring Bogdan Borčić (1926–2014).
One of the key painters and printmakers in Slovenia, a professor and representative of abstract and minimalist art. It will feature documentary photographs from his atelier, his drawing and painting tools and accessories and artwork from the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška and private collections
Mladen Stropnik’s exhibition project addresses questions of dynamics and perception of various realities in our daily lives. Not only those we are aware of but also all those that can be found beyond the logical and the conscious, in the realms of the strange, impossible, alien, different, including unconsciousness and dreams.
This year, the Lighting Guerrilla is officially entering the age of adulthood - with the 18th edition of the festival, which is dedicated to the artistic exploration of the medium of light and is considered to be a unique manifestation of this type in the local area. This year’s festival topic is Transformations; works selected thematise and reflect on different aspects of change and transformation that we are witnessing in our environment or in our lives.
The new series of paintings is inspired by videos and microscopic photographs of neurons damaged or altered due to the use of various substances or neurodegenerative diseases.
Where did the Ilirija sports club in Ljubljana come from, why the Ilirija monument and who is Ilirska Street named after?
Saša Dev, Plečnik's student and an architect of the interwar Maribor, was one of the co-creators of modernist architecture in Slovenia. His architectural works remain relevant today, as he would do more than just follow contemporary trends as a young architect but rather surpass them by several decades in the context of the relationship towards urban fabric.