The Slovak National Museum

The Slovak National Museum

Establishment of the Slovak National Museum in St. Turčiansky. Martin is associated with the development of the Slovak Museum Society, which laid the foundations of systematic collecting and scientific activities in all disciplines homeland. Thanks to its chairman Andrej Kmet and small contributions of Slovaks at home and abroad, was built the first purpose-built building of the SNM in the years 1906 -1907 in St. Turčiansky. Martin (designer Harminc MM, 1994, declared a national monument). In 1908 it was made ​​available on an area of ​​780 m2 first exposure.

After World War I began promoting the idea of building a national museum in the capital. Thus was established in Bratislava, Slovak History Museum founded in 1924 by Slovak national history museum. In the same year was added in Bratislava and Agricultural Museum - a branch of the Czechoslovak Agricultural Museum in Prague.
Museum exhibitions were inaugurated in the fourth May 1930 as the Slovak National múzeumvýsledok work together Slovak Agricultural Museum and the Heritage Museum, built by the building of garages.
In 1940, the Slovak National History Museum and the Museum of Agriculture merged into Slovak Museum in 1961 by SNR merged into one organizational unit Slovak Museum in Bratislava and the Slovak National Museum in Martin - was uniform nationwide Slovak National Museum in Bratislava.