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Museums & Galleries in Ljubljana

Museums & Galleries in Ljubljana
While Ljubljana's museums and galleries are likely not the top reason for most visitors coming to the city, the breadth and scope of what's on offer is more than enough to keep you busy for days on end.


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Brewery Museum

Brewery Museum
The Union Brewery has been providing quality beer to the masses for almost 150 years. The brewery’s museum, inside the same Read_on (No Comments)

City Museum

City Museum
A magnificent museum run by a team of historians who know how to show people a good time, showcasing Ljubljana in all its good and bad colours throughout history. Read_on (No Comments)

Contemporary History Museum

Contemporary History Museum
If you needed a reason to visit Tivoli Park, it's here. This fascinating museum inside a wonderful 18th-century mansion presents the history of Slovenia from the period around the start of WWI until independence in 1991. Read_on (No Comments)

Exhibition of Slovenian History

Exhibition of Slovenian History
This beautifully presented exhibition takes visitors on a whirlwind tour of Slovenia's long and fascinating history, from prehistoric times through independence and the present day. Read_on (No Comments)

House of Experiments

House of Experiments
Based on similar wacky, fun and educational places around the globe, the extraordinary House of Experiments features three rooms of purpose-built experiments for the ultimate hands-on experience. Read_on (2 Comments)

International Centre of Graphic Arts

International Centre of Graphic Arts
Located inside the gorgeous 17th-century Tivoli Mansion, this must-see attraction for anyone with even a passing interesting Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of Architecture and Design

Museum of Architecture and Design
Located in Fužine Castle in the far east of the city, the Museum of Architecture and Design ( or MAO for short) is the main Slovenian institution operating in the fields of architecture, urban planning, industrial and graphic design and photography. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Art
Along with the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and a branch of the National Museum, the recently opened Museum of Contemporary Art rounds out Ljubljana's newly christened Museum Quarter located between Metelkova and Tabor in the centre of the city. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art
Following a lengthy renovation, the doors of Edvard Ravnikar's Plečnik-inspired building have finally reopened to the public. Read_on (No Comments)

National Gallery

National Gallery
Inside Czech architect František Edmund Škabrout’s fabulous late 19th-century neo-Renaissance masterpiece Read_on (No Comments)

National Museum of Slovenia

National Museum of Slovenia
Found lurking inside another of the city’s fine, late 19th-century neo-Renaissance buildings complete with fine painted ceilings and elaborate sculptures on the stairs, this is the oldest museum in country, founded way back in 1821. Read_on (No Comments)

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum
Attached to Ljubljana’s National Museum, the Natural History Museum isn’t the best in the world by a long way but it does offer an assortment of oddities to beat the rainy blues away or to simply keep the children amused for a while. Read_on (No Comments)

Plečnik House

Plečnik House
The Slovenian visionary architect Jože Plečnik lived in this house from 1921 until his death in 1957, making this brilliant Read_on (No Comments)

Railway Museum

Railway Museum
Housed primarily in a wonderful semicircular brick locomotive shed, the current incarnation of this excellent museum dates from 2004 and offers an exceptional glimpse behind the history of the technology, culture and people of the nation’s railway heritage. Read_on (No Comments)

Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Slovene Ethnographic Museum
The Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) - a museum "about people, for people", prides itself as being the link between the past and the present, between our own and other cultures, between nature and civilisation. Read_on (1 Comment)

Technical Museum

Technical Museum
A bit of a drive to get to this one, but if tractors, fishing rods, tools of every possible size, shape and application, guns, Read_on (No Comments)

Tobacco Museum

Tobacco Museum
The small and intriguing Tobacco Museum traces the origins of the deadly weed in Europe from the 16th century onwards. Exhibits Read_on (No Comments)