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

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 of management came a new name, the Museum of Architecture and Design (Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO)), and a central role as the main repository for documents and materials pertaining to architecture, town planning, industrial and graphic design, and photography in Slovenia. MAO has been located at Fužine Castle since 1992.

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

Activities

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 a specialised library.

The departments systematically collect, store, study, and present materials pertaining to their fields. The Architecture Department collects sketches, models, blueprints, photographs and films documenting the extensive history of architecture in Slovenia; the Design Department houses a range of industrial design objects in a wide range of materials that trace the history of industrial design in Slovenia, with an emphasis on consumer goods manufactured by Slovenian firms; the Photography Department contains over 12,000 photographs from over 400 authors, some dating as far back as 1850.

A special collection curated by the museum is the Plečnik Collection. Housed separately at the Plečnik House, the exhaustive collection features over 17,000 drafts, sketches, models and letters from both Plečnik himself and the great architect's students.

Future Architecture 2018 CREATIVE EXCHANGE by MAO Slovenia on YouTube

Programme

Materials and documents collected and studied at the Museum of Architecture and Design are displayed in the framework of various themed exhibitions. The exhibition The Architect Jože Plečnik 1872–1957 was based on a major exhibition with the same title at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1986. Special themed historical exhibitions focus on specific time periods and spaces: 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.

MAO is also active in calling attention to the surprisingly rich history of industrial and consumer design in Slovenia. The exhibition Niko Kralj: The Unknown Famous Designer set a new standard for exhibitions of this kind: it showcased the archives, sketches, photographs, prototypes and final products of 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, only entered into regular production in 2012.

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

Education

Educational activities, including creative workshops, take place regularly at the museum. Pedagogical events for groups of various ages are available throughout the week with a prior appointment, while the Sunday at MAO event series opens the museum's doors twice a month to children of all ages, presenting them with a range of fun, interactive activities through which they can learn about how architecture and design are made and the huge role they have in shaping our day-to-day lives.

The museum also organises a number of different walking tours that provide interested guests with in-depth overviews of Ljubljana's rich architectural past and present. Tours are available by appointment and in Slovene, German, and English languages.

edu.arh: Prakse arhitekturnega izobraževanja / Practices in Architectural Education by MAO Slovenia on YouTube

Cooperation

In line with its central role in documenting, presenting and promoting historical and current architecture and design in Slovenia, the Museum of Architecture and Design is very active in its cooperation with other institutions, both in Slovenia and abroad. To take just one example, in 2009, the museum, together with the ARK - Institute for Architecture and Culture, organised the Architectural Epicentres lecture series, in the framework of which it hosted some of the world's most prominent architectural thinkers. MAO is also in charge of planning and curating Slovenia's pavilion and general presence at the prestigious Venice Biennale event.

Since 2015, it has played a central role in the Future Architecture Platform, with then museum head Matevž Čelik leading the organisation. This trans-European platform seeks to connect emerging architects with key players in the field, such as museums, galleries, publishing houses, and festivals. Through its multi-faceted approach, which involves both tenders, conferences, and hybrid digital/analogue publishing activities, it actively seeks out the most groundbreaking, progressive thinkers in architecture and related fields and offers them an opportunity to have their voices heard at some of the most important institutions on the continent.

In 2019, the museum's active involvement with the Centre for Creativity led to cooperation with Ljubljana Fashion Week. The museum hosted the runway and showroom portions of the fashion industry event, and also co-organised the two-day Fashion System Conference, which brought together a number of experts for a series of panel discussions and round tables on the particular problems and opportunities facing creatives in the field of fashion.

Awards

In 2020, alongside the celebration of MAO's first decade since becoming a national museum, its director, Matevž Čelik, received the Plečnik Medal for his contribution to enriching the field of architecture and bringing the museum to international importance, namely, through the Future Architecture Platform. The same year, the Biennial of Design (BIO) garnered a single achievement Valvasor Award, the highest national award in the field of museum activities, for its 26th edition entitled Common Knowledge and its conceptual leap in the understanding of contemporary museums as well as for its promotion of and care for the Slovenian design heritage.

External links

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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-The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana was established in [[Established::1972]] by the [[Municipality of Ljubljana]]. In April 2010 the management of the museum was transferred from the city to the state. Under the new name the [[Museum of Architecture and Design|Museum of Architecture and Design]] is the central Slovene museum for architecture, town planning, industrial and graphic design, and photography. Since 1992 the Museum is located at [[Fužine Castle]].
+The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana was established in [[Established::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 of management came a new name, the [[Museum of Architecture and Design]] (Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO)), and a central role as the main repository for documents and materials pertaining to architecture, town planning, industrial and graphic design, and photography in Slovenia. MAO has been located at [[Fužine Castle]] since 1992.
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-Since 1972 the Secretariat of the [[Biennial of Design (BIO)]] (formerly known as Biennial of Industrial Design) operates under the aegis of the museum. In 2014, for its 50th anniversary, a completely new curatorial practice was implemented: the 24th Biennial of Design (BIO 50) has taken a collaborative approach, considering actual changes in the way people nowadays co-work and co-create. The international design exhibition was curated by Jan Boelen.
+Since 1972, the administration of the [[Biennial of Design (BIO)]] (formerly known as the Biennial of Industrial Design) has operated under the aegis of the museum. Since 2017, MAO has additionally provided the operational framework for the [[Centre for Creativity]], a broadly-oriented project intended to provide support to Slovenia's cultural and creative sector (CCS).
-In 2015 the MAO launched the ''Future Architecture Platform'', with an aim of communicating the social, environmental, economic and design potentials of architecture to the widest possible audiences across Europe. The open call was open to architects as well as to urban planners, curators, landscape architects, designers, artists, filmmakers, etc. First the selected applicants presented 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&ndash;2017 across Europe.
+== Activities ==
+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 a specialised [[Museum of Architecture and Design Library|library]].
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+The departments systematically collect, store, study, and present materials pertaining to their fields. The Architecture Department collects sketches, models, blueprints, photographs and films documenting the extensive history of architecture in Slovenia; the Design Department houses a range of industrial design objects in a wide range of materials that trace the history of industrial design in Slovenia, with an emphasis on consumer goods manufactured by Slovenian firms; the Photography Department contains over 12,000 photographs from over 400 authors, some dating as far back as 1850.
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+A special collection curated by the museum is the Plečnik Collection. Housed separately at the Plečnik House, the exhaustive collection features over 17,000 drafts, sketches, models and letters from both Plečnik himself and the great architect's students.
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+== Programme ==
+Materials and documents collected and studied at the Museum of Architecture and Design are displayed in the framework of various themed exhibitions. The exhibition ''The Architect Jože Plečnik 1872&ndash;1957'' was based on a major exhibition with the same title at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1986. Special themed historical exhibitions focus on specific time periods and spaces: ''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.
-== Departments ==
+MAO is also active in calling attention to the surprisingly rich history of industrial and consumer design in Slovenia. The exhibition ''Niko Kralj: The Unknown Famous Designer'' set a new standard for exhibitions of this kind: it showcased the archives, sketches, photographs, prototypes and final products of world-renowned Slovenian industrial designer [[Niko Kralj]] (1921&ndash;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, only entered into regular production in 2012.
-The activities of the Museum of Architecture and Design have expanded since the move to the [[Fužine Castle]]. The museum now incorporates 6 departments: the Department of Historical Architecture in Slovenia, the Department of Contemporary Slovene Architecture, the Department of Industrial Design, the Department of Visual Communications, the Department of Photography, and the Department of Educational Activities. The museum also houses a specialised [[Museum of Architecture and Design Library|library]].
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-== Programme ==
+== Education ==
+Educational activities, including creative workshops, take place regularly at the museum. Pedagogical events for groups of various ages are available throughout the week with a prior appointment, while the Sunday at MAO event series opens the museum's doors twice a month to children of all ages, presenting them with a range of fun, interactive activities through which they can learn about how architecture and design are made and the huge role they have in shaping our day-to-day lives.
-The Museum of Architecture and Design systematically collects, stores, studies, and presents material at various exhibitions. The display ''The Architect Jože Plečnik 1872&ndash;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&ndash;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.
+The museum also organises a number of different walking tours that provide interested guests with in-depth overviews of Ljubljana's rich architectural past and present. Tours are available by appointment and in Slovene, German, and English languages.
-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&ndash;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.
+{{YouTube|0xvCw_CJEX4}}
-{{Vimeo|32418855}}
+==Cooperation==
+In line with its central role in documenting, presenting and promoting historical and current architecture and design in Slovenia, the Museum of Architecture and Design is very active in its cooperation with other institutions, both in Slovenia and abroad. To take just one example, in 2009, the museum, together with the [[ARK - Institute for Architecture and Culture]], organised the Architectural Epicentres lecture series, in the framework of which it hosted some of the world's most prominent architectural thinkers. MAO is also in charge of planning and curating Slovenia's pavilion and general presence at the prestigious Venice Biennale event.
-== Education ==
+Since 2015, it has played a central role in the Future Architecture Platform, with then museum head [[Matevž Čelik]] leading the organisation. This trans-European platform seeks to connect emerging architects with key players in the field, such as museums, galleries, publishing houses, and festivals. Through its multi-faceted approach, which involves both tenders, conferences, and hybrid digital/analogue publishing activities, it actively seeks out the most groundbreaking, progressive thinkers in architecture and related fields and offers them an opportunity to have their voices heard at some of the most important institutions on the continent.
-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&ndash;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 &ndash; 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 2019, the museum's active involvement with the Centre for Creativity led to cooperation with Ljubljana Fashion Week. The museum hosted the runway and showroom portions of the fashion industry event, and also co-organised the two-day Fashion System Conference, which brought together a number of experts for a series of panel discussions and round tables on the particular problems and opportunities facing creatives in the field of fashion.
-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.
+==Awards==
+In 2020, alongside the celebration of MAO's first decade since becoming a national museum, its director, [[Matevž Čelik]], received the [[Plečnik Award|Plečnik Medal]] for his contribution to enriching the field of architecture and bringing the museum to international importance, namely, through the Future Architecture Platform. The same year, the [[Biennial of Design (BIO)]] garnered a single achievement [[Valvasor Award]], the highest national award in the field of museum activities, for its 26th edition entitled ''Common Knowledge'' and its conceptual leap in the understanding of contemporary museums as well as for its promotion of and care for the Slovenian design heritage.
-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.
-{{YouTube|3kzHLyJsIVY}}
 == See also ==
 * [[Museum of Architecture and Design Library]]
 * [[Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO)]]
+* [[Centre for Creativity]]
 == External links ==
 * [http://www.mao.si/ Museum of Architecture and Design website]
 * [http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/ Future Architecture Platform website]
-* [http://videolectures.net/futurearchitecture2015_ljubljana/?q=future%20architecture  Future of Architecture lectures on [[VideoLectures.Net]] ]
+* [https://www.czk.si/dogodek/2019-10-25/Sistem_mode Fashion System Conference]
-* [http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/projects/32a151aa-d1bc-4418-98ed-75018e3e06bb/ Architecture for Refugees - Open Source Online Platform, FAP]
+* [https://www.delo.si/kultura/razno/priznanje-direktorju-in-bienalu-oblikovanja-354889.html Article about the award to the director and the biennial] (in Slovenian)
-* [http://videolectures.net/maodebates2011_ljubljana/ MAO debates] on [[VideoLectures.Net]]
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