Events September 2016

Exhibitions

Festivals

contemporary applications and multiple dimensions of their use is shown. Among others, there is a collection of laces presented of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, which is one of the largest in Slovenia Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - 14:00 Plečnik Collection The new permanent exhibition at the Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the most important projects of the late architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes to life through the plans, models and photographs of his creations such as the Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, the National and University Library in Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous other masterpieces. Several plans of Plečnik’s never realized visions are also on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, the master’s vision of the Slovenian parliament, is especially worthy of our attention. Guided tours: every hour, on the hour (the last guided tour at 17:00). Groups must not contain more than seven people. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays Puppet Museum at Ljubljana Castle Slovenia is a country with a rich tradition of puppeteering. The Puppet Museum’s permanent exhibition, set up by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, introduces you to the history of puppeteering in Slovenia and the creativity of contemporary Slovenian puppeteers, presents the most popular puppet characters, and gives you an insight into puppeteering techniques and the process of creating a puppet show. After viewing the exhibition, you can try your hand at puppeteering skills. Open: 9:00 - 18:00 daily

Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) Permanent exhibition at the National Gallery

Zoran Mušič, the best known 20th century Slovenian-born painter and a man with more than one homeland, spent most of his life between Venice and Paris. He mostly painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, Dalmatian donkeys and horses, trees, views of Venice, double portraits with his wife Ida, and poignant self-portraits depicting him as an old man. His visual motifs were always related to the Slovenian region of Kras and its typical scenes. He became world famous with his series of paintings We Are Not the Last, in which he relived the scenes he experienced in the Dachau concentration camp. Ljubljana’s National Gallery displays the world’s only permanent survey exhibition of Mušič’s work. The majority of exhibited works come from the Ljuban, Milada and Vanda Mušič Collection, owned by the family of the artist’s brother. Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00- 20:00. Closed: Mondays

of Wireless Transmission of Electrical Energy, The Bladeless Turbine, Energy - The Main Subject of Tesla’s Research, Tesla’s Doctrine, and Tesla - A Modern Subcultural Hero. Exhibits include multimedia information boards, models of inventions, working interactive 3D digital models, and much more. Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - 14:00. Closed: Mondays InterLACEd 21 Jun - Dec Slovene Ethnographic Museum Temporary exhibition by SEM Lace is a perforated fabric made of textile or similar threads with patterns of holes. It conveys messages of its manufacturing techniques and structure, use, temporal and spatial changes, and diverse meanings. It also symbolizes the invisible links between different time periods, places, and people. The exhibition presents a great variety of museum laces and others by which

the basic typology of ornamental techniques, traditional and other

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