Mestni muzej Ljubljana
Gosposka 15, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 241 2500
Founded byLjubljana Urban Municipality
Managed byCity Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
City Museum of Ljubljana
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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. Interesting museum offer for those who like to explore city on their own is GPS Guide to Emona that enables you to make your own guided tour through the remains of the Roman city according to your interest and time availability.
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. Restoration and conservation experts of the museum are forming Ščit - Conservatory Centre of the City Museum of Ljubljana who's duties are to survey and improve condition of museum items in collections and exhibitions.
Exhibitions
In The City Museum of Ljubljana temporary exhibitions are prepared apart from permanent exhibitions in main building in Auersperg palace. Temporary exhibitions tend to be blockbuster exhibitions with big names names Museums permanent exhibition is The Faces of Ljubljana
Branches
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)
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The City Museum of Ljubljana was established in 1935 and has been housed in the Auersperg palace (built in 1642) in the centre of Ljubljana. +
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