Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana

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Muzej in galerije mesta Ljubljana (MGML)

Gosposka 15, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.mgml.si

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Phone386 (0) 1 241 2500

Founded byMunicipality of Ljubljana

Past events

7 Oct 2023

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7 Jan 2024

GermanyFrankfurt am MainFotografie Forum Frankfurt

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An exhibition "Paradise, Performance, Replica. Slovenian Photographic Art" in the scope of Slovenia – Guest of Honour Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023. Featuring the work of Vanja Bućan, Jošt Dolinšek, Bojan Radovič and Marija Skočir and curated by Andrea Horvat. Supported by Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.

31 May 2019

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23 Jul 2019

CroatiaVeliki Brijun

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Plečnik on Brioni exhibition produced by Plečnik House (Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana) and the National and University Library in Ljubljana, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Zagreb

28 Jun 2019

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7 Jul 2019

Vatican CityPinacoteca Vaticana

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Plečnik e il Sacro / Plečnik and the Sacred exhibition featuring 33 original sacred objects designed by Jože Plečnik and a video recording on Plečnik’s religious architecture, prepared by Tone Stojko. Curated by Peter Krečič and Ana Porok (Plečnik House). Produced by the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML) in close collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vatican City, and with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Archdiocese of Ljubljana, and the Vatican Museums.

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The City Museum of Ljubljana facade in the background, with the Križanke church facade on the right, 2006

In 2009 the City Museum of Ljubljana and the City Art Gallery Ljubljana merged into a new public institute called the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML). The merger was part of the Municipality of Ljubljana's cultural development plans for 2008–2011, endorsed in June 2008.

Facilities

Beside the City Museum of Ljubljana and its unit the Ščit - Conservatory Centre of the City Museum of Ljubljana the new institute manages its former 4 dislocated facilities (Match Gallery, Jakopič Gallery, the Tobacco Museum in the former Tobacco Factory complex on Tržaška cesta, and the Memorial Room of Writer Ivan Cankar on Rožnik Hill) as well as another 4 facilities which were previously managed by the City Art Gallery Ljubljana: two spaces of the former City Art Gallery Ljubljana, one at Mestni trg 5 (the main exhibiting space and former headquarters of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana) and the second at Cankarjevo nabrežje 11/1), and both spaces in Bežigrad, namely the Bežigrajska galerija 1 and 2. Since 2010 the MGML has managed also the Plečnik House where the famous architect lived from 1921 until his death in 1957.

Venues

A new venue of 350 m2 in the complex of Tobacco Factory opened in 2011 with a new permanent display of the Tobacco Museum Collection, and a new contemporary art space. The house offers also the very first residency for the visual artists in Ljubljana. As of 2012, RogLab is also run under the wing of MGML. The most recent venue under its management, however, is the Cukrarna Gallery that opened in the year 2021.

See also

• City Museum of Ljubljana
• Ščit - Conservatory Centre of the City Museum of Ljubljana
• Roman Emona
• Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre
  • Tobacco Museum
• Memorial Room of Writer Ivan Cankar
• Plečnik House
• RogLab
• Indigo Festival

Visual art galleries

• City Art Gallery Ljubljana
• Bežigrajska galerija 1 and 2
• Match Gallery
• Jakopič Gallery
• Cukrarna Gallery

External links

• Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana website

Gallery

The City Museum of Ljubljana facade in the background, with the Križanke church facade on the right, 2006

Ščit - Conservatory Centre of the City Museum of Ljubljana, 2006

Antoni Clavé's exhibition A World of Art. 1934-2002 in the Jakopič Gallery, 2010

A reading room and mediatheque on contemporary arts, architecture, and design set up in the Jakopič Gallery in Ljubljana, 2010

Contemporary Croatian Sculpture exhibition featuring 17 sculptors in Jakopič Gallery, 2010

Portrait of Jože Plečnik, 1933

Postcard of the Slovenski trg, a Ljubljana square designed by Maks Fabiani, 1907.

Maks Fabiani's sketch for his - now demolished - Jakopič Pavilion, 1908.

Maks Fabiani's sketch for the - now demolished - Jakopič Pavilion (studio of the famed impressionist painter Rihard Jakopič), 1908.

Maks Fabiani's plans for the so called Jakopič pavilion - the studio of the painter Rihard Jakopič, 1908.

A photo portrait of Maks Fabiani.

Memorial Room of Writer Ivan Cankar, 2009

Plečnik House in 2012, before the renovation works that were accomplished in September 2015, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana

The interior of Jože Plečnik's studio in the year of the master's death in 1957.

Plečnik Collection, work table in Jože Plečnik's master's studio, 1957. Photo from Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana documentation/Plečnik Collection.

Plečnik Collection, some objects from the master's studio, 2011.

Plečnik Collection, some objects from the master's studio, 2011.

Architectural design of the cylindrical extension of Plečnik House, Karunova street 4, Ljubljana, 1923

Jože Plečnik, standing in front of the cylindrical extension of his house in Trnovo, 1926. Photo by Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana documentation/Plečnik Collection.

Winter garden at Plečnik House, Karunova street 4, Ljubljana, 1923

Match Gallery in Ljubljana, 2009