Museums and history in Liptovský Ján and surroundings

In Liptovsky Jan, in the underground bowels under the local old monument buildings, you have a unique opportunity to experience the story of the coin's life from concepti...

In 1955, District Museum of National History of the Upper Liptov people was founded in Liptovský Hrádok, which was a kind of predecessor of the current Ethnographic Museu...

The Museum of Nature Conservation and Speleology is the most modern museum in Slovakia and also the only specialized museum of its kind. It offers a unique experience for...

The Black Eagle Museum (orig. "Múzeum Čierny orol") is located in Liptovský Mikuláš, in the historical building of a former trip inn (a facility with accommodation and ov...

In 1955, the third oldest gallery in Slovakia - the Liptov Gallery of P. M. Bohúň - was founded. The gallery is located in the historical and cultural center of Liptovský...

A unique complex of historic buildings is built in Liptovský Mikuláš on the Square of the Demands of the Slovak Nation. They are connected to the Evangelical Church datin...

Koloman Sokol Gallery is located in the center of Liptovský Mikuláš, in the oldest secular building from the 15th century, the former seat of the family of feudal noblema...

The most striking and beautiful historical building of the main square in Liptovský Mikuláš is undoubtedly the building of the First County House. Today, it houses the Ja...

Liptovský Hrádok is a beautiful town in the heart of the charming Liptov countryside, but it also has a rich history and many cultural monuments that remember the past ti...

If you want to go back to the ancient times of our ancestors and get to know their way of life as well as folk architecture, the right place is the Museum of the Liptov v...

If you want to see with your own eyes and feel for yourself what kind of way of life and living was led by traditional mining family, head straight to the village Vyšná B...

You can follow the footsteps of the Celts in the archaeological museum of Havránok. This location is one of the oldest cultural monuments in Liptov. It is a site of a set...

The Liptov village of Važec is one of the few that can boast their own museum. But this one in Važec is truly something special. The Museum of Folk Traditions originated ...

The Orava Village Museum is probably the most famous Slovak open-air museum. It lies in the bosom of a beautiful Orava nature surrounded by the peaks of Roháče. You can f...

The Museum of Horehronie in Brezno is one of the younger museums in Slovakia. Its collection consists of more than 30,000 objects, as well as a number of written and pict...

The Museum of Horehronie in Brezno is one of the younger museums in Slovakia. Its permanent exhibition Literary Brezno is located in the renovated premises of the old gra...

Location on the outskirts of the Sub-Tatran village of Štrba offers a mysterious way to the Middle Ages. In 1951-52 the foundations of the extinct medieval settlement of ...

In Ružomberok, directly below the Church of St. Ondrej, you can find Andrej Hlinka Mausoleum, also known as the Andrej Hlinka Memorial. The construction of the mausoleum ...

If you desire to know the complex history of Liptov, learn more about living and inanimate nature, as well as important archaeological finds and localities, visit the Lip...

The Ľudovít Fulla Gallery is a part of the Slovak National Gallery. It is located in Ružomberok in a building that is interesting in architectural design and thanks to th...

If you are interested in the topic of scouting and you are curious about its origin and development from the past to the present, the Scout Museum of Vaclav Rubeš in Ružo...

The region of Horehronie is known for its rich metallurgical production, the center of which is the village of Podbrezová. This is where the Metallurgical Museum of Želez...

Vlkolínec is one of the jewels of Slovak folk architecture. Its origins date back to the 14th century. Today, this picturesque submontane settlement is an administrative ...

One of the extended expositions of the Liptov Museum in Ružomberok is the exposition called "Peasant house and Courtyard Vlkolínec", which presents the way of life and li...

Chalet of Štrba is a unique ethnographic museum in the village of Štrba, which offers a view of the authentic environment of the foothill village with the original, prese...

In the idyllic environment of the Orava Highlands and Choč Mountains, nearthe municipality of Vyšný Kubín, there is a large meadow with a prehistoric settlement called M...

Rafting - today's romance, once it meant hard calluses of our old fathers. For centuries, rafts have been mainly used to carry constructional timber and various other goo...

When it is said "Martin Kukučín", his significant literary works such as Dom v stráni, Rysavá jalovica or Keď báčik z Chochoľova umrie come to our mind. But do you know w...

The largest preserved complex of original folk architecture in Central Europe can be found in the Orava village of Podbieľ. This village surrounded by beautiful alpine na...

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was one of the leading figures of Slovak literature and Slovak culture at the turn of the 19th century and the 20th century. His extensive and i...