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rENovatED muSEum oPENED IN blED
caStlE
A renovated museum was opened in Bled Castle at the end of
April. The museum now has wider content, as it became the
museum for the ancient history of the entire region of Bled. This
is probably the most frequently visited museum in Slovenia, as it
is visited, also of course due to the attraction of Bled and Bled
Castle itself, by over 200,000 guests annually. The museum was
opened after a fairly lengthy disagreement between the Ministry
of Culture and the Municipality of Bled, during which the
Municipality first opposed state ownership rights to the castle,
having invested large funds into its renovation decades ago. The
dispute later centered around the management of the grounds.
Two years ago, both parties found a satisfactory solution when
it was decided that the management of the grounds would
be entrusted to the Bled Tourist Association. Both parties then
invested in the renovation of the building, while the National
Museum of Slovenia placed a new museum collection in the
space.
The rooms and exhibits of the museum portion of the castle
which, given the length of time that passed from its last
renovation over thirty years ago, had looked quite sad, now shine
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in a completely new light. The remaining portion of the castle,
which does not look as terrible as the old museum section once
did, will be renovated in 2011, when the castle will celebrate its
millennial.
SEcoNDary ScHool GraDuatES
PErform a QuaDrIllE
On 16 May, the Slovenian secondary school graduates together
with their colleagues from five other European countries
synchronously danced a quadrille in order to achieve a new
Guinness world record in mass quadrille dancing. In addition,
dancers from the Dance Association of Slovenia also competed
for the record.
The Secondary School Graduation Parade, organised by Urška
Dance School, brought young people together to dance in a
street quadrille for the eighth year now. The secondary school
graduates danced in more than 40 cities in Slovenia, Croatia,
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro.
This year's number of dancers was 26,924, which should suffice
for the new record. Therefore, the condition to set a new world
record, which is 23,628 dancers, was probably fulfilled. All the
cities were connected by a satellite signal and that the dance
was synchronised. The secondary school graduates from other
countries had to learn the dance, because it has to be identical
in all countries.
Now, all the documentation will have to be prepared and
submitted to London, where it will be checked to see if a new
Guinness world record has been set, which will take at least a
month.
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