Past events

27 jan Sat
27. 1. 2024 @ 11:00

Create your own self-portrait!

Museum painting workshop for children and families

Free entry

Join us for the first museum workshop for children in the new year! This time, we’ll have fun with the colors and the brushes! We will focus on portrait painting and look for inspiration at different types of portraits from the Art History Collection of the Škofja Loka Museum, and then we will try to paint ourselves.

27 jan Sat
4–6 EUR

Join us for a Castle Matinee! Every last Saturday of the month, you take a guided tour of our permanent collections and get to know the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Škofja Loka area, and afterwards have a cup of coffee (with a coupon) at the Škofja Loka Castle Cafe while enjoying an excellent view of the medieval town.

25 jan Thu
25. 1. 2024 @ 18:00

Jata izkušenih ptic Škofja Loka

Art workshops for seniors at the Škofja Loka Museum

Free entry

You are invited to the presentation of a series of art workshops, where we will tell our own stories and stories from the museum collections, enter the world of Loka stories and learn through them artistic expression through the body, compose dance and theatre compositions and much more.

30 dec Sat
Free entry

You are invited to spend the penultimate day of the year in the company of the Škofja Loka Museum!

Together we will say goodbye to this year and talk about all the good, happy, perhaps sad or interesting things we have experienced. We will reflect on our hidden wishes for 2024 and depict them on a New Year's greeting card in graphic technique.

20 dec Wed
Free entry

On Wednesday, 20 December 2023, at 6 pm, you are invited to the Round Tower of the Škofja Loka Museum for a guided tour of the exhibition Ophélie Exploring Škofja Loka Through the Eyes of Tone Mlakar, An Exhibition of Škofja Loka Photos Taken Between 1950 and 1970 and in 2022 with curator Anja Zver.

13 dec Wed
Free entry

We planned that the central and final event of the year would be the opening of a new permanent collection of old books from the Ivan and Franja Tavčar Library in December, but the old books had their own plans. What kind of plans, we will reveal to you at the presentation of preventive procedures and necessary restoration and conservation interventions.

3 dec Sun
Free entry

On This merry day of culture, we invite you to visit the Škofja Loka Museum, Škopar's House, France Mihelič Gallery, Ivan Grohar Gallery, Brode Beekeepers' House, and Visoko Mansion. Entry is free.