Museum of History, Bratislava

The Historical Museum forms an important part of the complex of specialised museums of the Slovak National Museum. Its basic mission is to purposefully acquire, preserve, scientifically and professionally process, use and make available the museum collections, documenting the development of society in Slovakia from the Middle Ages until the present. In this context of the museum’s specialisation, it has a nationwide scope. It also builds up, administers and processes a numismatic collection from the oldest times until the present, collections documenting history and the ethno-cultural development of Slovaks living abroad. The Historical Museum administers and looks after a rich collection of objects. The Historical Museum is seated in Bratislava Castle.

The Historical Museum administers almost 250 000 objects from the field of national history, arts, sculpture and painting, and culture, traditional and artistic crafts, numismatics, ethnography, warfare, economy, the history of Slovaks living abroad, Croatian culture in Slovakia and cultures outside Europe. Several collections of the museum are the largest in Slovakia (numismatics, historic and folklore textile, glass and ceramics, militaria, crafts, historical press, sacral and folklore plastic arts and painting). Objects in the collections have over the past years been stored in specialised collection depositaries according to the type of material.