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Entrance to the complex from Masarykova cesta
AKC Metelkova mesto (also just Metelkova) is an autonomous cultural centre located in the center of Ljubljana in the northern part of the former barracks complex from the Austro-Hungarian period along Metelkova cesta. Metelkova is considered one of the most important centres of alternative culture in Slovenia. It consists of various clubs, bars and galleries, and Hostel Celica, which has premises in the building of the former military prison. The entire barracks complex, which also houses the premises of the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, the Slovenian National Museum and the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, is entered in the register of immovable cultural heritage.

The Centre was created in 1993, when a group of volunteers and activists connected in the so-called Metelkova Network occupied the buildings of the complex, from which the soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army had withdrawn two years earlier and were intended for demolition. Since then, the project has also been characterised by an unregulated legal status (the official owner of the land is the City of Ljubljana), which occasionally leads to more or less concrete threats to its existence by the current authorities, despite its principled tolerance.

The construction of the Austro-Hungarian Barracks began in 1882 and completed in 1911. Until June 1991, the premises were owned by the Yugoslav People's Army. Part of the barracks' buildings were later transferred to the property of the Ministry of Culture and were intended for museum activities.

In 1990, the Metelkova Network was established, the initiators of which proposed a new creative way of using the premises of an abandoned barracks on Metelkova Street. In 1991, the Network officially submitted an initiative to the new government of the independent Republic of Slovenia to transfer ownership of the building.

In 1992, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, as the owner of the abandoned barracks premises, handed over to the initiators of the project Network za Metelkova, which was organized by about 300 artists and members of various subcultures who wanted to create a cultural centre in the area. At the General Meeting of the City of Ljubljana in March 1993, the municipality promised to regulate the handover of the barracks for use by the Network, but despite the signing of two agreements, the transfer stopped handover. At the beginning of September, the network announced that it would occupy barracks at the end of the month, even if the legal aspects were not finally regulated. In preparing for a possible takeover, the Metelkova Network was assisted by experienced squatters from Utrecht.

On 9 September 1993, a seminar on the promising rearrangement of barracks premises was organized at the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture. In preparation for the seminar on the roof of the building, participants noticed the workers and then found that the demolition of the building was under cover and informed the activists of the Network. The demolition took place only on the buildings allocated to the Network and was commissioned by the Ljubljana City Government. To prevent demolition, activists and supporters occupied the premises. Due to the occupation, the Network was later sued unsuccessfully by the city government.

In 2006, the State Inspectorate for the Environment and Spatial Planning demolished the urban art sculpture Small School as a building built without proper permits

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