City Museum of Ljubljana

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Mestni muzej Ljubljana

Gosposka 15, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.mestnimuzej.si

info@mestnimuzej.si

Phone386 (0) 1 241 2500

Founded byLjubljana Urban Municipality

Managed byCity Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana

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. In recent years it has been completely renovated and a stunning new extension built to a design by the award-winning Ofis Arhitekti team (Rok Oman & Spela Videčnik). In situ archaeology in the palace basement, a permanent exhibition and the completed thematic complex, Power and Authority of the City were inaugurated in Spring 2005. In 2007 trademark permanent exhibition The Faces of Ljubljana opened. It offers three chapters: stories about Ljubljana, the people and the city as a political, economical, scientific and cultural centre. Since January 1st, 2009 it has been operating under the umbrella organisation City Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana.

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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.

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The City Museum of Ljubljana research and protection field are collection, preservation, documentation and research of the Ljubljana city and their inhabitants through history of several thousands of years until today. The museum has collected materials, documents, invested in knowledge, exhibitions and events that represent Slovene capital and its inhabitants.

In recording, collecting, keeping, protecting, researching and presenting the Ljubljana past, the City Museum of Ljubljana has done its best to consider the new role of modern museums, which have become cultural hot spots and the promoters of identity in their local environments. It promotes and strengthens relations with the users through its programmes, as it wishes to realise their interests. With them, it creates a modern, open and visitor-friendly museum.

See also

• Roman Emona
• Tobacco Museum
• Memorial Room of Writer Ivan Cankar
• Ščit - Conservatory Centre of the City Museum of Ljubljana
• City Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
• Bežigrajska galerija
• City Gallery, Ljubljana
• Vžigalica - Gallery of the City Museum of Ljubljana
• Šentjakobska 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)