Museums and history in West Tatras

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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...

Not far from the village of Tatranská Javorina, surrounded by a wild forest and a vast meadow, there is a beautiful hunting lodge called Hohenlohe. This wooden lodge was ...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Poliankovo digital gallery and café represents the connection of art with modern digital technologies such as 3D projection, virtual reality, hologram and others. Usi...

We have been building a medieval village - Archeoskanzen under the Orava Castle for a long time. This place is the only one of its kind in Slovakia. It presents a museum ...

Let yourself be carried away by the allurement of the last century, when the** luxurious Landauers and Landaulets, the elegant Mylords** for gentlemen and Victorias for l...

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...

In a beautiful foothill village of Ždiar, which is a famous tourist center, there is a place where time seems to have stopped. This place is a complex of Ždiarsky dom (Ho...

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...

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...

If you've ever been to Dolny Kubin, you must have at least passed a nice craft house surrounded by beautiful greenery in a quiet location near Hviezdoslav Square. It is F...

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 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...

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...