Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
The Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Čunovo , a district of Bratislava , is the first private museum of modern art in Slovakia .
It is located about 15 kilometers from the city center on the peninsular end of a dam of the Gabčíkovo reservoir on the southern bank of the Danube . The opening took place on September 9, 2000.
The museum was created on the initiative of the Slovak gallery owner Vincent Polakovič, who was financially supported by the Dutch art collector and entrepreneur Gerard Meulensteen . The blueprints for the museum come from the architect Peter Žalman, who shared the vision of Vincent Polakovič and the painter Peter Pollág, who saw the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum as “a ship moved by oars”, “that overcomes distances and distant countries and different cultures connects ”and implemented it in an oval structure (50 meters long, 20 meters wide and a maximum of 12 meters high) with two levels.
Around the building is the sculpture garden with an area of around 8,000 square meters, where around 40 different sculptures are presented.
Since its inception, works by Corneille , Constant , Kiro Urdin, Martín Chirino , Miguel Ybanez, Manuel Salinas, Tommaso Cascella, Ad Snijders, Robert Combas and the Slovak artists Jozef Jankovic , Peter Pollág, Milan Lukác and Oto Bachorík have been presented.
The most prominent visitor in May 2007 was Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on a state visit to Slovakia.
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.danubiana.eu/ger/index.html
- ↑ Bratislava - Information on Slovakia ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Queen Beatrix in the sculpture garden
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 6.6 " N , 17 ° 13 ′ 53.8" E