Topics that are traditionally ignored in museums.

The series of community events Spicy Depository will strive for self-reflection within contemporary museology and bring new approaches to how collections are processed, how to expand the boundaries of the museum, and how to create a more inclusive and engaging museum today.

In the new series, the MMB depository will be open to topics that are traditionally silenced in museum spaces. Sexuality, migration, and the origin of collection items acquired under unclear circumstances are addressed in the form of panel discussions, informal meetings, and joint readings of archival materials with curators, historians, and, above all, the communities directly affected by these stories.

The Bratislava City Museum offers visitors a tour of the Apponyi palace.

The rococo palace in the historic center of the city hides preserved rare architectural elements of the interior on the first and second floors. It was built by Count Juraj Apponyi in 1761-1762. The palace is named after the owner Juraj Apponyi. Thanks to him, the originally older Baroque building underwent a fundamental reconstruction in 1761-1762, which gave the building its present appearance with the preserved original interior decoration.

In 1867, the building was bought by the city for the needs of the municipality and the cartouche above the gate was added with the city coat of arms. Already on the plan of the building from 1904, the rooms on the ground floor are marked as the premises of the City Museum. In 1926, the museum opened an exhibition here in the representative halls on the first floor, in 1930 a picture gallery on the second floor, and the following year it opened the Bratislava Winery Museum on the ground floor. In the following decades, the first floor connected to the Old Town Hall was used for exhibition purposes. On the second floor, there were first offices, later a depository, and the Regional Library was located here.

In the years 2004-2008, an extensive reconstruction of the palace was carried out, and after its completion, the museum set up exhibitions of historical interiors and viticulture, and in the attic a study depository of ceramics, porcelain and glass. The palace became an independent object without a communication connection with the Old Town Hall.

The Bratislava City Museum offers visitors a tour of the Old Town Hall.

The Old Town Hall in Bratislava is a historic building on the Main Square in Bratislava and is one of the oldest buildings in Bratislava. It consists of several buildings, namely Jacob’s House, Pawer’s House, Unger’s House, and Apponyi’s Palace, which were built in various artistic styles. The original part of the town hall is a house with its own tower on the eastern edge of the square. The building currently houses the Bratislava City Museum.

The Bratislava City Museum offers visitors a tour of the Town Hall Tower, which is part of the Old Town Hall and Apponyi Palace complex in the very centre of Bratislava.

While climbing the eighty-eight stairs and four floors, visitors will see the historic tower bells or the original office of Ovidius Faust, the important Bratislava city archivist, which was located in the tower, and read interesting information about the history of the tower. After climbing the observation tower, they will enjoy a panoramic view of the landmarks of the historical centre of Bratislava and the outskirts of the new part, also known as Bratislava’s Manhattan.

Entrance to the Town Hall Tower is included in the ticket to the Old Town Hall and Apponyi Palace complex or can be purchased separately.

The Bratislava City Museum offers visitors a tour of the Old Town Hall and Apponyi palace.

The Old Town Hall in Bratislava is a historic building on the Main Square in Bratislava and is one of the oldest buildings in Bratislava. It consists of several buildings, namely Jacob’s House, Pawer’s House, Unger’s House, and Apponyi’s Palace, which were built in various artistic styles. The original part of the town hall is a house with its own tower on the eastern edge of the square. The building currently houses the Bratislava City Museum.

The Bratislava City Gallery offers visitors a complete tour of Mirbach and Palffy Palace.

The impulse and inspiration behind it was an effort to preserve a big collection of books of the Slovak writer and his wife. However, it wasn’t only about books and library but also about a collecting, or more precisely about a collector’s obsession.

The Kornel and Naďa Földvári Library is one of the unusual projects of the national gallery by which they go beyond or rather extend the usual borders of the gallery world. Maybe because its initiator was a writer and director Peter Krištúfek with who the gallery had started to prepare it.

Location: SNG, Esterházy palace. More information HERE.