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Narodni muzej Slovenije / National Museum of Slovenia
Muzejska ulica 1, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 (0)1 241 44 00
e: info@nms.si
w: http://www.nms.si

Schedule

Open: Daily from 10:00 to 18:00, Thursdays from 10:00-20:00, except 1 and 2 January, 27 April, 1 and 2 May, 25 June, 1 November, and 25 and 26 December.

Description

Being Slovenia's main museum of national history, the National Museum keeps a number of finds from Slovenia considered to be important treasures of the world's cultural heritage. One of the most outstanding is the 55,000 year old Neanderthal flute from the Divje Babe excavation site.

The National Museum of Slovenia is housed in a centrally located neo-Renaissance palace built between 1883 and 1885 to designs by Viljem Treo. The Museum's history goes back to 1821, to the foundation of its predecessor, the Provincial Museum of Carniola.

Permanent exhibitions:

The Treasures of the National Museum of Slovenia

The exhibition brings together a selection of the most important and valuable archaeological items from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times. Set up in two exhibition halls, it is comprised of 450 miscellaneous objects and two treasure troves of coins displayed in 23 showcases. Special attention is dedicated to the Ljubljanica river, which is an outstanding archaeological site in terms of the finds' quantity, nature and condition. The National Museum keeps as many as 5,500 finds from this site.

Slovenian Language – A Symbol And Identity (A Short History of the Slovenians)

TThe exhibition presents the history of the Slovenians from the early days of Slavic settlement to the present day. The common thread running through the exhibition is the Slovenian language, which survived the multitude of political systems and regimes that shaped the life in Slovenian inhabited areas, which were, until the 1848 Spring of Nations, mainly comprised of the regions of Štajerska (Styria), Koroška (Carinthia) and Kranjska (Carniola). The spirit of different periods in Slovenian history since the "formation" of the Slovenian nation to the present day are shown in four videos accompanied by a display of museum items.

The Roman Lapidarium

The Roman Lapidarium is a collection of more than 200 stone monuments bearing Roman Latin inscriptions and dating from the 1st to 4th centuries AD. Most of the monuments, displayed on the ground floor of the museum building and in a glass pavilion situated in the Museum's courtyard, were found on the site of Emona (Ljubljana in Roman times), the Ižanski kot area, the town of Trojane, and the regions of Zasavje and Dolenjska.

Egyptian Mummy

The National Museum also keeps Slovenia's only Old Egyptian human mummy. The inscription on its anthropomorphic coffin, found in a west Theban cemetery, indicates that the mummified body belonged to Isahta, a priest of the temple of Amun in Karnak in the Late Dynastic Period (25th-26th Dynasty, 7th-6th centuries BC).

Notes and additional information

Admission to the Museum

• Free admission for pre-schoolers, the disabled, journalists, and the members of the Slovenian Museum Society and the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
• €3.00 for adults
• €2.50 for seniors and secondary school and university students
• €2.50 for school groups and other groups of more than 10 people
• €1.00 surcharge per person for guided museum tours, available to groups of more than 15 people by prior arrangement
• €1.25 surcharge per person for museum tours guided in a foreign language, available to groups of more than 15 people by prior arrangement
• €0.70 surcharge per person for guided museum tours for school groups, available by prior arrangement

Admission to selected exhibitions

• €2.50 per person for temporary exhibitions
• €5.00 for adults visiting the permanent and the current temporary exhibition
• €4.00 for seniors and secondary and university students visiting the permanent and the current temporary exhibition
• €0.50 for viewing an ancient Egyptian mummy
• €1.00 surcharge per person for exhibition tours

Combined tickets for the Museum's two departments (one in the Prešernova cesta street and the other in the Metelkova ulica street)

• €5.00 for adults
• €4.00 for seniors and secondary school and university students
• €4.00 for temporary exhibitions
• €8.50 for adults visiting the permanent and the current temporary exhibition
• €7.00 for seniors and secondary school and university students visiting the permanent and the current temporary exhibition

Urbana - Ljubljana Tourist Card

The card entitles you to free admission to the museum.