The article addresses memorials that were intended for or put up in the lobby of the University of Ljubljana’s Rectorate at Kongresni trg. Universities are supposed to be non-political institutions; however, memorials with political connotation are often found on their premises, which holds true also for the university at hand. As the main area of the Slovene central higher education institution, the lobby was fi tted with politically appropriate memorials that suited the respective authorities and most of which did not survive the change of regime. On the other hand, no unveiling ceremonies were held for a surprisingly substantial portion of memorials.V prispevku so obravnavana spominska obeležja, ki so jih postavili oz. nameravali postaviti v vhodni avli rektorata Univerze v Ljubljani na Kongresnem trgu. Univerze naj bi bile nepolitične ustanove, vendar se v njihovih prostorih pogosto znajdejo spomeniki s politično konotacijo, kar velja tudi za obravnavani primer. Pod vsako oblastjo je bila avla kot glavni prostor osrednje slovenske visokošolske ustanove opremljena s politično ustreznimi obeležji, od katerih jih večina ni preživela menjave režima. Po drugi strani presenetljivo velik delež obeležij ni bil deležen slavnostnega odkritja
