OFIS Arhitekti renovate and extends The City Museum of Ljubljana was established in 1935 and has been housed in the Auersperg Palace, the most important fragments of pre-baroque architecture in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The architects built a continuous spiral that connects the exhibition areas through the building and holds all infrastructures for modern museums in the same way. The existing palace renovation kept the original of the bourgeois feudal palace, with its connected rooms and internal stone elements such as original columns, frames, fences, staircases and wooden carvings on the windows, doors and parquet floors. The completed thematic complex consist an archaeology exhibition in situ, in the palace basement, and a permanent exhibition, also Power and Authority of the City. It’s presenting the history of Ljubljana and its inhabitants from the lake-dwelling settlement in 4500 BC to the modern urban city that is the capital of Slovenia.
