Slovenia and sites in the capital, Ljubljana

Slovenia 

Slovenia is surrounded by Italy, Austria, Hungary, Croatia. The Slovenians speak more languages than residents of other European countries.  

To the west are the cave complexes of Postojna and Skocjan. The letter j is pronounced like an i or y. 

Towards the centre, Central Slovenia, is the capital city, Ljubljana. 

The capital is Ljubljana.

One landmark is the triple bridge.

A notable landmark is the Valentin Volnik square. See the statue of the poet, his house, and his tombstone. The tombstone and a coin bear his words

Collections[edit]

The Academy holds more than 13 million objects including costumes, costume sketches, film reels, posters, props, and screenplays dating back to 1927.^[1] In May 2020, the museum purchased the May Queen dress worn by Florence Pugh in Midsommar (2019) for $65,000, as part of a charity auction held by A24 to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts.^[16]

Some key objects in the Museum's collection include:^{[citation needed]}

• Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Shirley Temple's tap shoes from The Little Colonel (1935)
• Typewriter used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)
• The only surviving shark mold from Jaws (1975)^[17]
• Tablets from The Ten Commandments (1956)
• The Aries 1B spaceship model and a space suit worn by Keir Dullea from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The costume of the amphibian man from the Guillermo del Toro’s’The Shape of Water (2017)’’
• From the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial an E.T. Prop is displayed.
• A cape used by Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)^[18]
• The yellow dress worn by Emma Stone in La La Land (2016)
• Pillars named for historical significance in motion picture history including Rita Moreno, Cher, Barbra Streisand, and Hattie McDaniel.

Exhibitions[edit]

The second and third floors of the museum will feature the opening exhibition "Stories of Cinema".^[19] The inaugural temporary collection of the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery is devoted to Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.^[2][20] The exhibition opened on September 30, 2021, and was on view until June 5, 2022. This was the first time Miyazaki’s work was featured in a major retrospective in the United States. The collection also displayed pieces on public view for the first time outside of Japan.^[21] The 11,000-square-foot exhibition features more than 300 objects, including original image boards, character designs, storyboards, layouts, backgrounds, posters, and cels. The exhibition’s curators, Jessica Niebel and assistant curator J. Raúl Guzmán worked with Studio Ghibli and the Ghibli Museum in Japan to gather all the materials. There are also interactive installations displayed throughout the exhibit, the “Mother Tree,” Skyview, and Magical Forest, to name a few, each inspired by a different Miyazaki Film.^[22]

Following that will be an exploration of the history of black cinema through 1971.^[1]

Galleries in the museum will be dedicated to a variety of topics. Inaugural galleries will cover:^[1]

• Pedro Almodóvar
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Climate change
• Black Lives Matter
• Blackface, redface, and yellowface
• Labor relations
• Bruce Lee
• Spike Lee
• #MeToo
• Oscar Micheaux
• Racism and sexism in animation
• Real Women Have Curves (2002)
• Thelma Schoonmakeroet

Valentin Volnik, 

Statue of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ljublina, Slovenia.

Hryhoriy Skovoroda also has a statue in Washington DC outside Ukraine House. His statue in Ukraine remained when the museum surrounding it was destroyed by Russian warfare recently. He wrote an epitaph for his grave, They wanted to capture me but could not. 

Food and Drink

The country has the oldest vine, 400 years old.

Useful Websites

Slovenia

Ljubljana

Poet Valentin Vodnik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Vodnik

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