City Museum of Ljubljana, Municipal museum in central Ljubljana, Slovenia
The City Museum of Ljubljana is housed in a historic palace downtown and displays objects spanning thousands of years of the city's history. The galleries contain archaeological finds and everyday items that document how people lived across different periods.
The institution was founded in 1935 to preserve materials about the city's past. Since then it has become the main place to learn about Roman settlements, medieval times, and how Ljubljana developed into a modern city.
The collections tell the story of how people lived and worked in this city across different periods. You can see everything from the tools they used to the way neighborhoods developed over time.
The museum sits in the heart of the city and is easy to reach on foot. Plan enough time to walk through the different levels and take in the various collections at a comfortable pace.
The collection holds the world's oldest wooden wheel with a wooden axle, along with a roughly 40,000-year-old wooden arrow. Both come from the museum's holdings of over 200,000 items documenting Ljubljana's multi-millennial past.
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