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:
“History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
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—David Hume (1711–1776)