Museums and history in Petkovce and surroundings

Anyone who would like to travel a little in time and experience a return to the oldest periods of human history should visit the Live Archeopark in Hanušovce nad Topľou. ...

The Museum in the Hanušovce Mansion is located in the picturesque town of Hanušovce nad Topľou. The Renaissance mansion stands in the middle of the city on a small hill s...

In the small village in the north-eastern part of Slovakia, there is the Memorial Room of Tokajík Tragedy entitled "Fascist reprisals in Eastern Slovakia". It was built a...

Since 2014, the small village of Fintice in East Slovakia has its own museum and gallery. The gallery and museum of folk art is housed in a historical building of a forme...

The Vihorlat Museum is housed in a 17th-century Renaissance mansion. The manor house was built on the site of a medieval water castle. Today, it is a national cultural mo...

Almost in the center of Humenné, on a rather rugged terrain, there is an open-air museum with an exposition of folk architecture and housing. The open-air museum in Humen...

The most important salt deposit in Slovakia is the site named Solivar - today the part of the city of Prešov. Right here, in the Leopold shaft, rock salt was mined in the...

The Museum of Ruthenian Culture in Prešov is one of the thematic branches of the Slovak National Museum. The museum is the youngest in Slovakia. The main activity of the ...

One of the most fascinating historical buildings not only in Prešov, but also in the whole of Slovakia is undoubtedly the Rakoczi Palace, as evidenced by its attribute - ...

There is a paradise for wine lovers in the premises of historical 500 - year - old cellars under the Town Hall of Prešov. Original underground spaces became the seat of t...

The Prešov Jewish Museum was founded in 1928 as the first of its kind in Slovakia. It is located in the beautiful premises of an orthodox synagogue built between 1897 - 1...

The charming 18th-century Baroque mansion in Svidník houses the Dezider Milly Gallery, which is part of the Museum of Ukrainian Culture in Svidník. The gallery was opened...

The Museum of Ukrainian Culture in Svidník is the oldest national institution and a branch of the Slovak National Museum Bratislava. It focuses on documenting the basic s...

The museum department of Svidník is a part of the Military History Museum in Piešťany. Its activities follow the traditions of the Dukla Museum, which was founded in 1965...

Among the rich tangle of Slovak open-air museums, we can also include the exposition of the Museum of Ukrainian Culture. After all, Ukrainian or Ruthenian culture is also...

Andy Warhol - king of pop art, whose roots reach to Slovakia. That is why the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art was founded in Medzilaborce in 1991, the first in the world...

Mini Open-Air Museum is situated near the amphitheater and the local railway in Medzilaborce. The whole area of this mini-museum is dedicated to the traditional life and ...

The medieval eastern bastion in Sabinov, which was part of the town fortifications for several centuries, became the seat of the City Museum in 2012. As part of its activ...

In the cultural center of "Na korze" in Sabinov you can see a permanent exhibition of the Oscar-winning film The Shop on Main Street and also a museum with works of Sabin...

One of the most interesting collecting institutions in Slovakia, the Museum of Eastern Slovakia, provides the visitors of all ages with a unique opportunity to cross the ...

Casemates of Košice are made up of late Gothic and early Renaissance loopholes, built on late Gothic foundations, and an extension and superstructure from the later perio...

An interesting building in the city of Košice is the building, which houses the museum - House of Crafts. It attracts people by its external architecture, which combines ...

The Memorial House of Francis II Rákoczi, the so-called Rodošto, is open to the public in the area of Executioner bastion in the courtyard of Hrnčiarska Street in Košice....

In the heart of the historical part of Košice, there is probably the most attractive exposition Museum of Eastern Slovakia. It is Mikluš's prison and Executioner's apartm...

At the corner of Mlynská and Štefánikova streets in Košice, there is a beautiful historic building built in the neo-Gothic style. It is the Jacob's Palace, also known as ...

The Slovak Technical Museum in Košice is the only technical museum with nationwide scope. The museum manages a rich collection fund in which it is represented by mining, ...

The literary giant Sándor Márai was one of Europe's most read authors of his time. His roots reach back to Košice, where he was born, spent his childhood and later starte...

The Šariš Museum in Bardejov offers for its visitors three permanent expositions - one of them is the Natural History Exposition. A remarkable exhibition brings visitors ...

The city of Košice is the metropolis of Eastern Slovakia. Like our capital of Bratislava, Košice attracts many domestic and foreign tourists every year.

One of the histo...

The Exposition of Icons, which is one of the permanent expositions of the Šariš Museum in Bardejov, is the only independent specialized exposition of iconographic monumen...