The Building
The current building, designed in a Neo-Renaissance style by the Viennese architect Wilhelm Rezori and the master builder Wilhelm Treo from Ljubljana, was built between 1881 and 1885. The interior decorations were made by the painters Janez and Jurij Šubic. A monument to the Carniolan polyhistor Janez Vajkard Valvasor, designed by the sculptor Alojz Gangl, was placed in front of the Museum in 1904. The National Museum is located close to the Slovenian Parliament building and the Slovenian Foreign Ministry, while the Ljubljana Opera House stands just opposite to it on the same square.
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Famous quotes containing the word building:
“Our civilization is characterized by the word “progress.” Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“I am not building here a statue to erect at the town crossroads, or in a church or a public square.... This is for a nook in a library, and to amuse a neighbor, a relative, a friend, who may take pleasure in associating and conversing with me.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)