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This pretty yellow chalet (with brown trim and a red roof, at Prešernova cesta 31) wins my
vote for quaintest embassy building in the world. Resist the urge to snap a photo...those
guards are all business.
• Just up Prešernova cesta from the embassy are two decent but skippable art museums.
This museum has three parts: European artists (in the new building), Slovenian artists (in
the old building), and temporary exhibits. Find the work of Ivana Kobilca, a late 19th-cen-
tury Slovenian Impressionist. Art-lovers enjoy her self-portrait in
Summer.
If you're going
to Bled, you can get a sneak preview with Marko Pernhart's huge panorama of the Julian
Alps.
Cost and Hours
: €5, special exhibits typically cost extra, permanent collection free first
Sun of the month, open Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, closed Mon; if main entrance at Cankarjeva
20 is closed for renovation, use the other entrance at the big glass box between two older
buildings at Prešernova 24; tel. 01/241-5418,
www.ng-slo.si
.
Newly renovated, this museum has a permanent collection of modern and contemporary
Slovenianartists,aswellastemporaryexhibitsbybothhomegrownandinternationalartists.
To explore the “Continuities and Ruptures” permanent collection (aptly named for a place
with such a fractured, up-and-down recent history), borrow the English floor plan and take
a chronological spin through the 20th century. Unusual for a “modern” art museum is the
room with Partisan art, with stiff, improvised, communist-style posters from the days when
Tito and his crew were just a ragtag militia movement.
Cost and Hours:
€5, ask about combo-ticket with contemporary branch at
• By the busy road near the art museums, look for the distinctive Neo-Byzantine design (tall
domes with narrow slits) of the...
Ljubljana'smoststrikingchurchinteriorisn'tCatholic,butOrthodox.Thischurchwasbuilt
in 1936, soon after the Slovenes joined a political union with the Serbs. Wealthy Slovenia
attracted its poorer neighbors from the south—so it built this church for that community.
Since 1991, the Serb population continues to grow, as people from the struggling corners
of the former Yugoslavia flock to prosperous Slovenia. Its gorgeous interior—which feels
closer to Moscow than to Rome—offers visitors a taste of this important faith.
