High schools and colleges

Educational Programme UGM 2025/26
for high schools 

The Maribor Art Gallery is the second largest institution in Slovenia dedicated to 20th and 21st century art. Each year, we host around 20 exhibitions of Slovenian artists and numerous international presentations. The exhibition programme is accompanied by a varied educational programme, which helps visitors to get to know, understand and experience fine art. For school groups, we organise short creative guided tours and more extensive cultural days based on the participant’s own experience of art making. The gallery space is regularly enlivened by our young subscribers, who actively follow the exhibition programme and co-create the lively art scene at UGM.

The 2025-2026 school year will start with an exhibition of works from the UGM Collection, titled Spekter. In December, we will invite you to an exhibition in our central exhibition space with the meaningful title I won't come down. And every month you will be able to see a new exhibition in the UGM Kabinet. You can find out more about the exhibitions here.

PROGRAMME:

• Guided tour / duration: 45–60 min / price: 3 € per person
• Guided tour + creative workshop / duration: 80–90 min / price: 3.50 € per person
• Guided tour – Discovering public sculpture in Maribor / duration: 60 min / price: 3 € per person
• Gallery on the go / duration: by arrangement / price: free of chargeThis program is intended for all groups with special needs who are unable to visit us due to various obstacles. Upon agreement, we can also organize an activity remotely.
• UGM Subscription / duration: 3 or 4 visits of 80–90 min / price: 8.50 € or 11 € per person

 

UGM FOR ART STUDENTS

With your support, we aim to bring UGM—the central institution for modern and contemporary visual art in Maribor—closer to students of art disciplines. We want to present UGM as a space of vibrant, authentic art, as well as a place for enriching academic content, spending free time, and socializing. To this end, we are preparing special benefits for students, either for independent visits or as part of their studies, and we kindly ask you to inform them about these opportunities. We would also like to highlight the possibility of conducting part of your academic activities directly in the exhibition spaces, surrounded by original artworks.

Conducting academic activities in UGM spaces
At UGM, you can carry out part of your academic program (e.g. drawing or painting from original works, lectures, etc.). The exhibitions can serve as a practical demonstration of the topics you cover in your courses. Give students the opportunity to create in an environment of living art. We can support you with available equipment such as drawing boards, a projector + computer + screen, monitors, and more.

Free admission to UGM for students of art-related fields:

• Academia, Maribor
• Fine Arts Education, Faculty of Education, University of Maribor
• Department of Architecture + Department of Spatial Planning – Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor
• Material Design, Higher Vocational College for Wood and Design, Maribor
• Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor
• Department of Media Communications, FERI, University of Maribor

Free first visit for first-year students of art-related fields
Students will be introduced to the exhibition program and accompanying events. They will be invited to visit the library and the archive department, where they can find a wealth of materials relevant to their field of study throughout the course of their studies. We will encourage them to subscribe to the UGM newsletter and follow us on social media. They will learn that with a student ID, they have free admission to all UGM exhibitions throughout their studies, and they will be guided through the current exhibition.
Duration: 60–90 minutes

Guided tours of UGM exhibitions with a discount
In addition to the standard guided tour, we can arrange a specific thematic focus or have the tour led by the curator or the artist of the exhibition.

We kindly ask you to register your group at least one week in advance by contacting the Head of the Education Department, Brigita Strnad, at: brigita.strnadping@ugmpong.si
Tour duration: 50–60 minutes
Price with 30% discount: €2 per person

Free tours for Erasmus students
Once per semester, in collaboration with Maribor students, we organize a guided tour for international (Erasmus) students. During the tour, they will get to know the culture and art of the city they currently live in. The tour is also a social event where new friendships can be made.