A Pioneering Private Museum (Perched On The Danube) In The Former Soviet Bloc

“Danubiana, a small contemporary art museum that rose up in 2000, on the barren tip of a narrow peninsula in the Danube River, near Bratislava, Slovakia. It was the idea of a Dutch businessman and a Slovak gallery owner whose chance encounter in 1994 led to the opening of one of the first private museums in the formerly Communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.”

Leonard Slatkin Comes Out The Other End Of A Year Of Trouble

“It’s a great life. I’ve been able to get up and do something few others have a chance to do. I’ve done it OK, could always do better. In that sense, I’m one of the least egotistical people — and here I am making an egotistical remark! But no one can ever say or write about you as scathingly as what your inner self believes to be true.”