Summer Museum Night

On 21st June, so on the first summer day all the museums and some galleries in Slovenia are opened until midnight. So was also this year. There are free guided tours around the exhibitions and several workshops for children and adults. I decided to visit some of them.
I visited Slovenian National Museum where young people were showing the way of life that was lived in the medieval times. I suppose guys and gals demonstrating were lots cleaner than people who really lived in Ljubljana in that period of time. :) I have learned how to make a rope and some basics in fighting with a sword! I hope I will never have to use any of those techniques...
I joined a guided tour in the City Museum of Ljubljana after that. 'Ghosts' of the exhibition showed us some interesting exhibits in the museum and we walked around a city center. I managed to see the ashes of burnt Emona houses (Ljubljana was called Emona in the Roman times) and I learned where Primož Trubar lived. Really, it is so interesting to get to know the history of a place where you live.Leaving ghosts strolling through the streets of Ljubljana, I went to see an exhibition on Pharaohs of Egypt. Some of the exhibits are very precious because they tell a lot about the history of Pharaohs. I found out that I am still lots more interested in Maya and Aztec culture.
It was almost midnight when I slowly went home. Probably those ghosts went to sleep at that hour as well.

A Culture Day

On Monday it was a Culture Day here in Slovenia. With it we celebrate each year the birth of our greatest poet France Prešeren. Also a text of our national anthem is written by him. I think that this sonnet tells a lot about our nation. Who we are. He was born in 1800. He was in love with a girl named Julija Primic but he couldn’t marry her because he was poor at that time. Later, when he had enough money and he was an ‘important’ person, she had already been married. He wrote great sonnets for her. He died in 1849, and funny enough, his date of death is a national holiday in Slovenia. Another day of culture.
So, on Monday there was a free entrance to most of the museums. I visited Slovenian Museum of National History. There was a new exhibition to be seen: The Secrets of the Woods. An interesting one but a lot of time is needed to read every piece of information written on the panels. I had some fun, as you can see on the photo above. My friend was a bit embarrassed but we live only once, so why not? (Perhaps wearing that disgusting mask is a cause that I am ill at the moment?)
There was also an exhibition on pieces of meteorites that fell on the Earth. I find it so special – something that was once up there, high in the sky, who knows how far away, could be seen from so close, you could almost touch it (sure, you are not allowed to).
I like visiting museums, especially if there are guided tours around as you can learn a lot of new things. The last time I was in the National Museum of Slovenia, we carried togas (Roman dresses) and went through an exhibition on Roman tombstones which had been found in Slovenia.
Well, I won’t bother you with all that museum stuff anymore but perhaps it is time that you visit an exhibition too? :)