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{{Infobox
| name                = Cekin Mansion
| localname           = Cekinov grad
| street              = Celovška cesta 23
| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| map                 = http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lon=14.49532&lat=46.0592&zoom=16&layer=mapnik
| mailing address     = P O Box 1644, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 300 9611
| fax                 = 386 (0) 1 433 8244
| email               = uprava@muzej-nz.si
| website             = http://www.muzej-nz.si
| managed by          = National Museum of Contemporary History
| opening hours       = 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. Close on holidays except 8. 2.
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Kaja Širok
| role                = Director
| email               = kaja.sirok@muzej-nz.si
}}{{Contact
| name                = Urška Purg
| role                = Public Relations
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 300 9633
| email               = urska.purg@muzej-nz.si 
}}
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In the mid-18th century, when Lamberg Castle was erected by Count [[Leopold Karl Lamberg]], the mansion stood in a Ljubljana suburb. The architect [[Johann Georg Schmidt]] built the mansion in 1725&ndash;[[established::1752]] without high ambitions, as it was designed merely for dancing parties. Its later name [[Cekin Mansion|Cekin]] (meaning ''coin'' in Slovene) derives from a deformation of a family name Szögeny, who was later an owner. The mansion had several eminent residents: Italian viceroy Eugen Beauharnais in 1813, the poet [[France Prešeren]] was a domestic teacher in 1818&ndash;1819, and family Kozler as last owners before the nationalisation after the Second World War.
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The two-storey late Baroque mansion has a central projection and behind it an entrance hall on the ground floor and the Knights' Hall on the first floor, which used to be a dancing hall. The Knights' Hall has Baroque paintings on walls and a ceiling in Illusionistic style and two decorative stoves. The main staircase is at its backside. It is declared a cultural monument of state importance.

==Mansion as a museum==
The building was transformed into a museum by the plans of [[Edo Mihevc]] in 1952, who inserted a mezzanine above the ground floor. In the same year the Museum of National Liberation moved in. In 1992 the mansion was rearranged again by architect [[Jurij Kobe]] ([[ATELIERarhitekti]]), when the attic was converted into a warehouse, and an elevator out of steel and glass was added at the backside. The institution has expanded its scope and mission and renamed itself the [[National Museum of Contemporary History]]. Today a renovated Knights' Hall serves as a lecture room.

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==See also==
*[[National Museum of Contemporary History]]
*[[Tivoli Mansion]]

==External links==
* [http://www.muzej-nz.si/en/ National Museum of Contemporary History website]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cekin_Mansion Cekin Mansion on Wikipedia]

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