Narodna Galerija / National Gallery Of Slovenia

Narodna galerija (National Gallery of Slovenia) is the main art museum in Slovenia containing the largest visual arts collection from the late medieval period to the end of twentieth century. The National Gallery Society was founded in 1918, although the endeavors to found a home of Slovene art had already been initiated towards the end of the 19th century. The Initiative to establish a national gallery was undertaken by the aristocratic polymath and correspondent Peter Radics and the mayor of Ljubljana, Dr. Ivan Hribar, followed by the Christian Art Society which, in 1907, compiled a collection of older Slovene art. In short, throughout the decades there had been kept alive the irrepressible desire of the Slovenes to have their own arts institution - a desire that was ultimately fulfilled in 1925, with the acquisition of the Narodni dom (National Home).