Museums and history in Žehra and surroundings

Levoča is a royal town with a rich and famous history, which is presently presented not only by Gothic and Renaissance architecture, but also by specialized centers docum...

The House of Master Paul is located on the historic square in Levoča. The foundations of the house originated in the 14th century as a ground floor building with a cellar...

One of the landmarks of Master Paul Square in Levoča is the historic building of the Renaissance town hall. The town hall was probably built around the middle of the 15th...

If you are not a fan of contemporary modern museums, try visiting a museum that breathes and embodies history just by the appearance of the building. The Spiš Museum in L...

One of the architectural gems of Spišská Nová Ves is the Art Nouveau building dating from 1899 - 1902. It is a beautiful reduta building built by architect Kálmán Gerster...

The architecturally most interesting and most beautiful monument of the town of Spišská Nová Ves is situated on the longest lenticular square in Europe. It is called the ...

The Artists' Gallery of Spiš is one of the youngest collecting institutions not only in the region but also in Slovakia. It is located in the representative premises of a...

Mining history enthusiasts can view rare exhibits as well as photographs and documents from the time of active mining activity in Spiš through the extended exhibition fro...

A charming architectural building in the historic center of Gelnica is the Old Town Hall with its majestic Baroque tower, which now houses the Mining Museum of Gelnica. T...

Folk Museum in Brezovica (Sabinov district) is a mirror of life in the village in the last hundred years. Among other things, the museum captures the entire process of ma...

Birth house Cpt. Nálepka in Smižany was opened to the public in 1971. Since then visitors and new generations can recognize the personality of Cpt. John Nálepka and his a...

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The Ethnographic Museum in the village of Smižany is an external exhibition of the Spiš Museum in Spi...

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...

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...

Ľutinská hora is not only for believers, but also for the general public, a well-known place of revelation of St. Nicholas to a poor girl Zuzana Fekete. Today, Ľutinská h...

The eastern Slovak town of Medzev and its close surroundings was one of the most productive areas in metal processing in the past. The tradition of ironmongery and smithe...

On the main square in the historical center of Kežmarok, there is an originally Gothic-Renaissance house, which now houses an exhibition of burgher housing culture in Spi...

The historical color of the town of Kežmarok is completed not only by the charming Kežmarok Castle, but also the Town Hall, which stands out on the Main Square. The very ...

In the Renaissance mansion of Strážky, the Slovak National Gallery has the following permanent exhibitions:

• Portrait of the 17th - 19th centuries in the Spiš region - c...

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...

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...

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 - ...

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 ...

The historic Late Renaissance building of the school in Spišská Belá is now the seat of the J.M Petzval Museum. The museum is named after a prominent mathematician, physi...

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 beginnings of today's Sub-Tatran Museum in Poprad date back to the second half of the 19th century. It was at this time that the Sub-Tatran Museum was founded by the ...

On the outskirts of the village of Vlachovo, in the local forest, preserved the historically valuable area of the former Andrássy mansion with the rest of the otherwise l...

The House approaches the life of the middle class in Stará Ľubovňa. The house is furnished with period furniture mostly from the 19th century. A unique feature of the Hou...

One of the most important buildings in Stará Ľubovňa is the Provincial House, which completes its historical color. The former headquarters of the administrator of backed...

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...