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Museums & Galleries

Thirty specialized museums and dozens of galleries are located in Bratislava. See the overview of the best of them.

Museums

Bratislava is home to 30 specialised museums. In the City History Museum, situated in the Old Town Hall, you can find out about the city history and the daily life of its inhabitants from prehistoric times until the end of the 1930s, while the Museum of History in Bratislava Castle documents history and the ethnocultural development of the Slovaks, It also houses an extensive numismatic collection from ancient times to the present. An authentic museum covering WWII and the  later Cold War can be found in museum B-S 4 alongside the Iron Curtain in Bratislava-Petržalka.

Galleries

Bratislava is the perfect destination for visual art lovers. Rich and unique collections ranging from medieval to contemporary art are on display in the Bratislava City Gallery and the Slovak National Gallery. Both galleries house permanent and temporary exhibitions including plaster and bronze casts of the character heads made by the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt during his stay in Bratislava. The only preserved original, the bust of the Capuchin, is exhibited in the Bratislava City Gallery in Mirbach Palace.

The best examples of Slovak modern art can be seen in the Nedbalka Gallery with the interior layout similar to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Less than 20 kilometres away from the city centre is the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, one of the youngest European museums of modern art, offering a unique symbiosis of works of art, modern architecture and surrounding nature.

Our tip: Every first Wednesday of the month, museums and galleries are free!

Museum of Slovak Crime
Dark times of Slovakia, the worst criminals from medieval times to the present, all in the city center.

Rudavsky’s Magic Garden
The unusual sculpture garden, which witnessed the meetings of the artistic legends of the Galanda Group, will today…

Atelier XIII
The scope of ATELIER XIII is to connect and present contemporary artists.

Kunsthalle Bratislava
Kunsthalle Bratislava is a gallery presenting exhibitions of current domestic and foreign visual artists. It makes visual art available…

Small Carpathian Museum
Small Carpathian Museum in Pezinok is a dynamic museum of the 21st century, presenting the history of viticulture…

Matej Krén passage
Don’t forget to visit the unique PASSAGE project by Matej Kren, installed in Palffy Palace (GMB), which achieves…

ÚĽUV Gallery
The ÚĽUV Gallery is a place where thematic exhibitions take place devoted to different aspects of traditional craft and…

Ancient Gerulata Rusovce
The grounds of the today´s museum were once part of the Limes Romanus as the museum is located…

DOT. Contemprary Art Gallery
Since its founding, the gallery has been systematically engaging in exhibiting and presenting of Slovak contemporary art, discovering…

Slovak National Museum
The Slovak National Museum is the top state institution in the field of museum activity in the Slovak Republic.…

tranzit.sk
"We believe in the liberty of the contemporary art institution to lead a risky, unframed, poetical and political…

LOM

LOM

LOM space is a sound laboratory of LOM, Bratislava-based label and audio equipment manufacturer. Along-side of manufacturing, it…

Viktoria’s Gallery
Viktoria's Gallery is a modern and contemporary art gallery located in the center of Bratislava.

Slovak National Gallery
The mission of the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) is not only to collect and preserve art, but also…

Atelier EM
Ateliér.EM was founded in 2009. It organizes the international SEM 1.–7. 2009–2015 symposium, whose results are presented in the…

Cit Gallery
The Gallery Cit enables professional graphic artists to present and sell their pieces of art in the form of…

Roman Fecik Gallery
The Roman Fecik Gallery is focused on modern and contemporary art. Its main purpose is to evoke a spirit…

Slovak National Museum-Music Museum
20% discount with Bratislava Card* The Music Museum is a national documentary, scientific research and methodological workplace with nationwide…

Slovak Gas Museum
Slovak Gas Museum maps the history, as well as current situation of the Slovak gas industry. The museum is…

UMELKA Gallery
The UMELKA Gallery is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Slovakia. It was established by the Arts Association…

GALLERY 19
“The gallery is to be,” Marian Mudroch wrote in the first annual catalogue of the gallery in 2011. Since…

Gallery Z
The gallery focuses on contemporary fine art exhibitions. The gallery’s key project is organizing the annual international Sculpture and…

Waterworks Museum
The exhibition is dedicated to the current and historical waterworks system of Bratislava and its surroundings. It is located…

FOG

FOG

The focus of the gallery, intended as a sister project to the photographic festival OFF Bratislava, is centred…

Apponyi House
Unique Roccoco house in the historical core of the city is one of the locations of the Bratislava…

Gallery Satelit
The spacious gallery Satelit represents the Mecca of Slovak design.

Medium Gallery
The well-known Medium gallery is predominantly an exhibition space of the Bratislava‘s Academy of Arts, but some of…

Exposition of Viticulture
The Museum of Viticulture is located on the ground floor of Apponyi House. The cultivation of vines and…

Nedbalka Gallery
The Nedbalka Gallery´s mission is to promote public understanding and enjoyment of art by the foremost artists working…

City history museum
The concept of the exposition held in the Old Town Hall concentrates on presentation of the history of…

Museum of Trade
Only three cities in Europe - Bratislava, Amsterdam and Budapest – can boast that they have museums with…

Natural Science Museum
The Natural Science Museum, focuses on the research, documentation and presentation of the natural environment, in particular within…

Archaeological Museum
The Arachaeological Museum is a branch with national influence and specializes in collecting, recording, restoring, preserving , presenting…

Red Stone Castle
Red Stone castle, named after the red colour of the quartzite on which was built, is situated nearby…

Bibiana
The International House of Art for Children is always full of entertaining and educational exhibitions, which appeal not…

Jewish Synagogue
The Heydukova Street Synagogue is the only synagogue in Bratislava. Constructed in 1923-1926, it is a Cubist building…

Transport Museum
One of Bratislava's most interesting museums, at least for the technically-inclined, is the Museum of Transport, adjacent to…

Chatam Sofer Memorial
This memorial was named after the main pressburg's Rabbi Moshe Schreiber, also known as Chatam Sofer, who was…

Bratislava Castle
The castle, on a hill above the old town, dominates the city of Bratislava. Enjoy also a beuatiful…

Zichy Palace
This neo-classical palace, formerly owned by Count Franz Zichy.

Old Town Hall
The history of the Old Town Hall dates back to the beginnings of the mediaeval town in the…

Primate’s Palace
The Primate’s Palace (1778-1781) was built on property originally belonging to the archbishop of Esztergom. The facade of…

Palffy Palace
This palace was built in the middle of the 19th century by Count Jan Pálffy, who was then…

Leopold de Pauli’s Palace
This palace was built for the main administrator of imperial property on the king’s estate, Leopold de Pauli,…

Mirbach Palace
The rococo Mirbach Palace was built in 1768-1770 by Bratislava brewer Michael Spech.

Michael’s Tower
The bulbous yet elegant copper roof of Michael's Gate is one of the symbols of Bratislava.

KUTSCHERFELD’S PALACE
The smallest rococo palace in Bratislava. It was owned by the administrator of the royal property in Magyaróvár,…

Kern House
Kern House stands on the corner of Rybárska brána (Fisherman's Gate) and Hviezdoslavovo Square. Fisherman's Gate was one…

Devín Castle
For the local people, the western part of Bratislava is one of the most popular venues for a…

Grassalkovich Palace
This rococo summer palace was built in 1760 for the chairman of the Hungarian Royal Chamber and advisor…

Gallery Multium
Immerse yourself in the world of mirrors and enjoy the illusion of an infinity. Inspired by the surrounding…

Budmerice Manor House
Budmerice, a little village between Bratislava and Trnava, situated in the shadow of the Small Carpathians, is big…

Elesko – Zoya Museum
ZOYA MUSEUM in Modra is a private institution that was first open to public on October 30, 2009.…

Slovak Design Center
SATELITE – the SCD design gallery is mainly an exhibition space for the presentation of graphical, industrial and creator…

Ján Cikker Museum
The Ján Cikker Museum was established in 2004 through the decision of the Ján Cikker Foundation, which is the…

Museum of the Theater Institute
The Theater Museum Institute collects, processes and provides for museum collections recording theater culture in Slovakia from the very…

Bratislava East Railway Museum
The museum presents collection items from the railway sector in Slovakia in exhibitions mainly involving operational as well as…

Čin Čin Gallery
The Čin Čin Gallery was established in 2010 with the aim of presenting and selling visual art. The gallery’s…

Gandy Gallery
Nadine Gardy, born in France, is particularly interested in the art of “New Europe” and its development after the…

MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Museum of Photography is located right in the historical centre of Bratislava in the building of Central European…

Jewish Community Museum
50% discount with Bratislava Card The Jewish Community Museum focuses on the history and culture of the Jewish…