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− | The [[City Museum of Ljubljana]] research and protection field are collection, preservation, documentation and research of the Ljubljana city | + | The [[City Museum of Ljubljana]] research and protection field are collection, preservation, documentation and research of the Ljubljana city has collected materials, documents, invested in knowledge, exhibitions and events that represent Slovene capital and its inhabitants. |
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Revision as of 11:40, 21 February 2010
Featured artifact
One of its most interesting artifacts is the world's oldest wooden wheel with the axle (3350 to 3100 BC). It was excavated from the remains of the pile-dwelling settlement in the Ljubljana marshes and has a radius of 70 centimeters. It is technologically advanced, made of two ashen panels of the same tree. The axle is 120 centimeters long and made of oak. Most probably the findings belonged to a single-axle cart.
Collections
The City Museum of Ljubljana research and protection field are collection, preservation, documentation and research of the Ljubljana city has collected materials, documents, invested in knowledge, exhibitions and events that represent Slovene capital and its inhabitants.
Exhibitions
Branches
The employees of City Museum of Ljubljana are doing their best to create a modern, open and visitor-friendly museum, that becomes a cultural hot spot and the promoter of city's identity.
See also
- City Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
- Roman Emona
- Tobacco Museum
- Memorial Room of Writer Ivan Cankar
- Ščit - Conservatory Centre of the City Museum of Ljubljana
- Bežigrajska galerija
- City Gallery, Ljubljana
- Vžigalica - Gallery of the City Museum of Ljubljana
- Jakopič Gallery
External links
- City Museum of Ljubljana website
- The Faces of Ljubljana exhibition in City Museum Ljubljana
- The world's oldest wheel - dendroarchaeological web page
- Article on the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's Illyrian Provinces project (pdf), Sinfo Magazine (pp. 6-9)