National Gallery of Slovenia

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The main building of the National Gallery of Slovenia in Ljubljana.
The main building of the National Gallery of Slovenia in Ljubljana.

The National Gallery of Slovenia (Slovene: Narodna galerija) is the national art gallery of Slovenia. It is located in the capital Ljubljana.

The Slovenian National Gallery was founded in 1918, after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary and the establishment of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Initially, it was hosted in the Kresija Palace of Ljubljana, but moved to the present location in 1919.

[edit] The building

The present building was built in 1896, during the administration of the mayor Ivan Hribar, whose ambition was to transform Ljubljana into a representative capital of all the Slovene Lands. It was designed by the Czech architect František Škabrout and was first used as a so-called "National Home" or "People's House" (Narodni dom), i.e. the central seat of various cultural associations of national importance. The building stands near the Tivoli Park.

In the early 1990s, an extension to the main building was built by the Slovene architect Edvard Ravnikar. In 2001, a large transparetnt glass gallery, designed by the architects Jurij Sadar and Boštjan Vuga, was built to connect the two wings of the building.

[edit] The exhibits

The gallery hosts a permanent art collection from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The original of the Baroque Robba fountain can also be seen in the central glass gallery of the building, where it was moved after an extensive restoration in 2006.

Among the notable Slovene and European artists whose works are exhibited in the gallery are:

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