Museums and Galleries

Banska Stiavnica

Slovak Mining Museum in Banska Stiavnica

The Slovak Mining Museum was formed in 1964 through a fusion of the Municipal Museum founded in 1900, with the State Mining Museum of Dionýz Štúr set up in 1927. Since its beginnings it builds up mineral-deposit, mining-technology, ethnography, art history, archaeology and numismatic funds and collections of general history. It specializes in documenting the history of mining industry in the Slovak Republic. It belongs to the museum system of an all-Slovakian competence and within the framework of region it also documents the history of Banská Štiavnica and its environs.

The central building is the Kammerhof - a national cultural monument, the largest building complex in the town, whose origin reaches back to the 13th century. It is the former seat of the socalled Chamber Counts and mining board of management.

Open-Air Mining Museum in Banska Stiavnica

The Open - Air Mining Museum was opened to the public in 1974 on original mining parts of the pit Ondrej from the 16th century and the gallery Bartolomej from the 16th and 17th century. It is two kilometers from Banská Štiavnica along the road to the Štiavnica mines, below the lake Klinger. It is made up of a surface and an underground exhibition. On the surface are original mining buildings and machinery, e.g. a unique water-column hauling engine engine from 1881, a head-frame Žofia, etc. The underground exhibition comprises two depth horizons in the Ondrej pit (the Bartolomej and the Ján horizons) 33 m and 45 m deep respectively. The length of the underground track measures some 1300 m. Samples of mining workspaces, equipment and methods of extraction from the 16th century down to the present times are installed in a typical mining environment.

Jozef Kollar Art Gallery in Banska Stiavnica

The museum’s collections are located in three renovated buildings in Holy Trinity Square, built in the middle of the 16th century. The most valuable works of art from the Slovak Mining Museum collections, originating from the Banska Stiavnica region. Exhibits from other mining regions are also found here. Besides interesting and frequently changing exhibits of contemporary and modern art are two permanent exhibits: Art of the 13th-19th Centuries, Art of the 20th Century with the works of Jozef Kollar, Edmund Gwerk and Jaroslav Augusta.

Banska Bystrica

Central - Slovakian Museum Banska Bystrica

Námestie SNP ?. 4, 974 00 Banská Bystrica

State gallery Banská Bystrica

Dolná 8, 975 90 Banská Bystrica

Museum of the Slovak national uprising in Banská Bystrica

Kapitulská 23, 975 59 Banská Bystrica

Literary and Music Museum SVK (LHM) Banska Bystrica

Lazovná ?. 9, 975 58 Banská Bystrica

Slovak Post museum in Banská Bystrica

Partizánska cesta 9, 975 99 Banská Bystrica

The Culture and Entertainment Park

Námestie SNP 14, 974 01 Banská Bystrica

Central Slovakia Cultural Centre

Námestie SNP 23, 975 41 Banská Bystrica

The Culture House SKC

Nám. Slobody 3, 974 01 Banská Bystrica

Poprad

Podtatranske Museum in Poprad

Podtatranske muzeum - Museum in Poprad was founded by the Hungarian Carpathian Society in 1876. Due to the disagreements concerning to the localisation of the museum in 1882, was open the Tatran museum in Velka and in 1886 the Carpathian museum in Poprad. In 1945 both of them were joined into one, named the Tatran museum of the district of Poprad, since 1961 the Podtatranske Museum. In 1978 the museum was given the building in Spisska Sobota and today it serves to the exposition purpose.

Tatran Gallery in Poprad

The Tatran Gallery was founded in 1960 with headquarters at Stary Smokovec. Today is has its seat at Poprad.

The gallery is building up its collection of works of art with the topic of the High Tatras, a collection of regional art of the subtatran and Spis region and a collection of 20th century Slovak art, with stress on art of east-Slovak provenience.

Liptovsky Mikulas

Peter Michal Bohun Gallery in Liptovsky Mikulas

The Gallery was founded in 1955 with the aim to collect, protect, manage and scientifically process works of ancient and modern art and make them accesible to the public, taking in also ongoing events in the domain of art. Besides contemporary art, the core of its activity also includes 19th century works of art where the axtensive collection of P.M. Bohú? takes pride of place. The gallery's collecting activity covers the entire Slovakia, but particularly focuses on the region of Liptov and its environs.

The gallery building, originally from the end of the 18th century reconstructed in its present appearance and rebuild specially for the needs of the gallery in the seventies, 20th century.