Museum of Architecture and Design

The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana was established in 1972 by the Municipality of Ljubljana. In April 2010 the management of the museum was transferred from the city to the state. With the move came a new name, the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), and a central role as the main Slovene museum for architecture, town planning, industrial and graphic design, and photography. The Museum has been located at Fužine Castle since 1992.

Since 1972 the Secretariat of the Biennial of Design (BIO) (formerly known as the Biennial of Industrial Design) has operated under the aegis of the museum. In 2017 MAO additionally provided the framework for the Centre for Creativity, a broad-minded project intended to provide support to Slovenia's cultural and creative sector (CCS).

1280pxThe 22th edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO) at the Museum of Architecture and Design in 2010. The Biennial of Design (BIO) in Ljubljana is one of the worldâs oldest international design events with a tradition of fifty years.

Future Architecture 2018 CREATIVE EXCHANGE by MAO Slovenia on YouTube

Departments

The activities of the Museum of Architecture and Design have expanded since the move to Fužine Castle. The museum now incorporates 4 departments: the Architecture Department, the Design Department, the Photography Department, and the Events Department. The museum also houses the specialised library.

Programme

The Museum of Architecture and Design systematically collects, stores, studies, and presents material at various exhibitions. The display The Architect Jože Plečnik 1872–1957 was based on a major exhibition of the same title at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1986. Special themed historical exhibitions include The Modern Classic Arne Jacobsen 1902–1971: A Centenary Exhibition (2004), 17th-Century Architecture in Slovenia (2006), 18th-Century Architecture in Slovenia (2007), and 19th-Century Architecture in Slovenia (2013). Beside periodical exhibitions of Slovene architecture, the museum also hosts regular exhibitions of international architecture.

Among contemporary design exhibitions the exhibition Niko Kralj: The Unknown Famous Designer was quite a break-through: it showcased the archives, sketches, photographs, prototypes and final products of the world-renowned Slovenian industrial designer Niko Kralj (1921–2013), including the famous Rex armchair, Lupina series, 4455 and modular system furniture Futura, Savinja, Javor, Konstrukta, as well as the Mosquito chair, which was designed as early as 1953, but due to the complexity of its manufacture, it only entered regular production in 2012.

In 2015 the MAO launched the Future Architecture Platform with the aim of communicating the social, environmental, economic and design potentials of architecture to the widest possible audiences across Europe. The open call was addressed not only to architects, but also tourban planners, curators, landscape architects, designers, artists, filmmakers, and others. The selected applicants presented furst their ideas at the February Matchmaking Conference at MAO where they pitched their ideas, afterwards the Future Architecture programme of exhibitions, conferences, lectures and workshops ran during 2016–2017 across Europe.

Niko Kralj, neznani znani oblikovalec // Making of by Drustvo Pekinpah on Vimeo

Education

Lectures and other educational activities, including creative workshops, take place regularly at the museum. Museum evenings are thematically structured lectures ranging from architecture, visual communications, industrial design, photography and other activities connected with museums. Taking place once a month they aim to encourage public debate about museums and different areas of expertise that are increasingly neglected in contemporary society.

In 2006–2007 the ARK - Institute for Architecture and Culture co-organised a series of lectures under the title Architectural Epicentres. These lectures focused on seven epicentres – Brazil and Mexico in the 1950s, Finland in the 1960s, Switzerland and USA in the 1980s, Barcelona in the 1990s, and the Netherlands at the close of the 20th century, while the concluding lecture focused on Slovenia and the (im)possibility of its becoming one of the next architectural epicentres. The lecturers were Keith L. Eggener, Hugo Segawa, Harri Kalha, Bart Lootsma, Nott Chaviezel, Mary McLeod, Jose Luis Echeverre, Yasushi Zenno, Rado Riha and Boštjan Vuga of SADAR + VUGA Architects. The book of essays presenting the lecture series was published by the Museum in 2008.

In 2008 in collaboration with the Pekinpah Association, the museum prepared a series of lectures in design theory about sustainable alternatives in design with international lecturers. In 2010 they published a book of lectures Sustainable alternatives in design: It's high time we start losing time featuring texts by: Dieter Rams, Ezio Manzini, Jonathan Chapman, Clive Dilnot, Per Mollerup, Victor Margolin, Cvetka Požar, and Barbara Predan. In 2010 followed a series of lectures in visual communications theory On Information Design, in collaboration with Petra Černe Oven and Pekinpah Association, featuring among other lecturers also Yuri Engelhardt, Rob Waller, and Karel van der Waarde.

The MAO educational programme related to architecture, design and photography has developed into a regular and attractive practice adapted for different target groups and ages.

MAO Mala šola arhitekture 2014/15 by MAO Slovenia on YouTube

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Gallery

The 2010 edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana. Biennial of Design (BIO) is one of the few international biennial exhibitions dedicated to showcasing industrial, product, and graphic design work selected by professional design institutions.

The 2010 edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design. Since the first biennial in 1964 the BIO biennial in Ljubljana has presented exhibitions surveying the state of international design.

The 22th edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO) at the Museum of Architecture and Design in 2010. The Biennial of Design (BIO) in Ljubljana is one of the worldâs oldest international design events with a tradition of fifty years.

One of the Biennial of Design exhibitions, held at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019

Marko Brumen at event organised by Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2017.

Matevž Čelik at event organised by Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2017.

2 Reels presentation at event organised by Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2017

Redesigning Our Future / Cities, government, innovation, an open lecture by Marc Steinberg at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2015

Tapio Wirkkala, one of the most influential Finnish designers of the 20th century, Exhibition, held at Museum of Architecture and Design, 2005

Eight Slovene designers – (OLoOP Design, Bevk Perović Arhitekti, AKSL Arhitekti, AlmiraSadar, BelaBela, Pleksimanija, Studio Drevo, and Janez Suhadolc presented at the exhibition Common Roots – Design Map of Central Europe at the Design Museum in Holon, 2012

The Renaissance Fužine Castle, 2006.

Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar, 2011

Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011

The exhibition Beyond Everydayness – Theatre Architecture in Central Europe, which toured Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava, was hosted by the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana in 2011, summarizing the results of an extensive multiannual research.

Eminent guest speakers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Catalonia presented various theoretical and practical approaches in the development of business models in culture at Beyond the Cultural Model Conference organised by Motovila Institute and Center for Creativity, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2018.

Beyond the Cultural Model Conference organised by Center for Creativity and Motovila Institute, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2018.

Creative Europe Desk Slovenia event at Museum of Architecture and Design, 2018.

The courtyard of the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019.

One of the permanent exhibitions at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019.

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Museum of Architecture and Design

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Education

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