Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana

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.

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). It manages the main municipal art galleries and museums including the Plečnik House and the Cukrarna Gallery.

Facilities

The merger was part of the Municipality of Ljubljana's cultural development plans for 2008–2011, endorsed in June 2008. Beside the City Museum of Ljubljana and its unit the Ščit - Conservatory Centre of the City Museum of Ljubljana the 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 three facilities which were previously managed by the City Art Gallery Ljubljana: the former City Art Gallery Ljubljana at Mestni trg 5 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. In 2021 MGML opened one of its most representative exhibition venues - the Cukrarna Gallery.

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

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.

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