Cekin Mansion

It houses the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia (Muzej novejše zgodovine Slovenije).

[2] The mansion is named after Lőrincz (or Laurenz) Szőgyény[3] (1741–1805),[4] the husband of Ivana Lamberg, who was given the building.

[5][7] The mansion was commissioned in 1720 by Leopold Lamberg based on plans by the Viennese Baroque architect Fischer von Erlach.

[2] During the last years of the French administration of Ljubljana from 1812 to 1813, it was used as a temporary residence by Eugène de Beauharnais, the viceroy of Italy and the commander of the Napoleonic armies in the Illyrian Provinces.

After World War II, the mansion was nationalized by the communist authorities of the People's Republic of Slovenia.