Night in the national museum

The Night of Museums and Galleries is a celebration of museology and shows what otherwise remains hidden. Eight museums of the Slovak National Museum will therefore open their doors to all curious and enthusiasts on Saturday, May 18. See what the Natural History Museum, the Historical Museum at Bratislava Castle, the Archaeological Museum, the Music Museum and the cluster of museums on charming Žižkova Street have prepared – the Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, the Museum of Culture of Carpathian Germans in Slovakia, the Museum of Jewish Culture and the Museum of Croatian Culture in Slovakia.

For easier orientation:

🗣️ guided tours
🍭 program for children
🆓 free
🤩 top program

In the premises of the Archaeological Museum

You can look forward to a creative program for families with children, and during the entire event archaeologists answer visitors’ questions and provide explanations for the exhibitions.

The program:
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Archaeological literature exchange
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Sale of archaeological souvenirs (copies of archaeological finds from Slovakia – jewelry and memorabilia, manufacturer František Engel)
🍭10.00 – 15.00 Archeologists game in the archaeological sandbox
🍭10.00 – 15.00 Game of Roman legionnaires and medieval knights
🗣️10.15 Accompanying the exhibition Life in castles and castles for families with children
🍭10.30 – 15.00 Creative workshops and activities for families with children in the courtyard with the theme Play about castles
🗣️15.00 Accompanying the exhibition Longinus – In the footsteps of legionnaires and rich Germanic graves
16.00 – 18.00 Moments from our exhibitions, four lectures approximating the topics of our exhibitions
16.00 Noble clothing and its symbolism in the early modern era, lecture by Lucie Pilková
16.30 In flames – funeral rites and cremation in the Roman era in SW Slovakia, lecture by Katarína Hladíková and Barbara Ritterová
17.00 Roman military diplomas, or how a barbarian became a Roman, lecture by Igor Bazovský
17.30 Life of medieval monks in Ludanice, lecture by Martin Hanuš
🗣️18.00 Accompanying the new exhibition Benedictine Monastery of St. Cosmas and Damian
🗣️19.00 Commented tour of the exhibition Cabinet Collection of the Evangelical Lyceum in Bratislava
🗣️21.00 Commented tour of the Life in Castles and Castles exhibition

Permanent exhibitions:
Cabinet collection of the Evangelical Lyceum in Bratislava
Laterarius – History of brickmaking in Slovakia
Lapidary
Column of Marcus Aurelius and Slovakia

Exhibitions:
Life in Castles and Manors
Longinus – In the Footsteps of the Legionnaires
Benedictine monastery of St. Cosmas and Damian

At the Bratislava Castle in the premises of the Historical Museum

The theme of this year’s program is behind the scenes of the museum, “what we do in the museum”.

The program:
16.00 – 17.00 Storage of collection items. Why do only some objects make it to the museum? Museum director Peter Barta will explain what a depository is and care for collection funds. Zuzana Luprichová, Eduard Belušák and Lenka Lubušká will lead the depositories. Register at the museum, capacity is limited. Meeting: 4th floor virtual exhibition.
🗣️16.30 – 17.00 From the history of Bratislava Castle – stone artifacts. Juraj Kucharík and Katarína Harmadyová will lead the depository. Must register at the museum, capacity is limited. Meeting: basement, Celts from Bratislava exhibition.
17.00 – 18.00 New acquisitions of the museum – How and why objects get to the museum will be presented by: Martina Vyskupová, Alena Piatrová and Lenka Lubušká. Meeting: 1st floor, New Museum Acquisitions exhibition.
18.00 – 19.30 Canapes from the museum – lectures by museum experts. Vojtech Hami: Faleristic collection, Boris Stoklas: History hidden in ancient coins, Juraj Kucharík, Katarína Harmadyová: About the oldest bells in Slovakia, Eva Hasalová: Fashion in the museum, Jasna Paličková: Ethnographic collections in the Historical Museum, Miroslava Maurery: Diskoguľa – a collection item , Ľubomír Morbacher: Posters from 1968 from France. Hosted by Andrea Litváková. Meeting on the 3rd floor, in front of the museum cafe.
20.00 – 21.00 Storage of collection items
20.30 – 21.00 From the history of Bratislava Castle – stone artifacts
🗣️22.00 Night tour of the Celti z Bratislava exhibition with co-author Juraj Kucharík. Meeting: basement, Celts from Bratislava exhibition.
🤩17.00 to 20.00 Interactive stations from behind the scenes of the museum:
1. Tomáš Malečka will present the documentation of collection objects in the past and in the present, including new technologies. Meeting: 4th floor, virtual exhibition.
2. Conservation and restoration of works of art. Demonstration of painting restoration with restorer Ruženka Škúciová. Meeting: 2nd floor, exhibition For glory and praise.
3. Education in the museum with Žig the fox. Draw your fox Žig together with Katarína Bašteková and Jana Hutťanova. Meeting: 3rd floor, U lišiak.

Permanent exhiábitions:
The altar as an object
Castle chapel of the Sevenfold Virgin Mary
North representative rooms
Jewelry store
History of Slovakia

Exhibitions:
Acquisitions for 2023
Martin Jonáš – painter from the white house
Czech and Slovak architecture. Panorama of architecture 1918-2023
Double cross
Heroes of the resistance
The story of the barber shop
For glory and praise
Christian motifs from the fine art collections of the SNM – Historical Museum
Celts from Bratislava

Last entry: 23:00

In the Natural History Museum

During the entire program, you can choose from various natural science activities.

The program:

anthropology
18.00 – 22.00 You are dust, but you will not always turn to dust. Visit to the anthropological depository, on the 4th floor. 8.00 – 22.00 (every 30 – 45 min.), registration on the 3rd floor. at the lift from 17.30 and from 20.00.
botany
15.00 – 23.30 The wonderful world of seeds. Demonstration of the diversity of seeds and activities aimed at getting to know them,
Location: 3rd floor: Meeting room.
🤩 Getting to know the herbarium of the important botanist Father Cyprián, the oldest herbarium preserved in Slovakia from the 18th century, one of the museum’s most valuable collection items. Electronic installation and facsimile demonstration. In the Biodiversity of Slovakia exhibition, 2nd floor.
mycology
🍭15.00 – 23.30 From the life of mushrooms. The mysterious world of fungal spores under a microscope, in illustrations, and children can draw them on balloons, just as light and carried by the wind.
paleontology
🍭15.00 – 19.00 Colorful petrified world. Creative workshops for children, they paint their fossil cast according to their own ideas. Location: paleontological exhibition Miracle of Nature – The Story of Life on Earth, 2nd floor.
20.00 – 23.30 Stories hidden in fossils. Secrets that can be read from different types of fossils and find out information about the past of our planet. Location: paleontological exhibition Miracle of Nature – The Story of Life on Earth, 2nd floor.
zoology
15.00 – 23.30 Sexual dimorphism in the animal kingdom. Curiosities and new additions to the zoological department of the museum. Location: 3rd floor; Meeting room.
mineralogy – petrography
15.00 – 23.30 Geology and its importance in everyday life. We will introduce the work of a geologist with the help of thematic posters and videos. Microscopic corner available, samples of minerals from Slovak deposits, mineralogical-themed coloring books for younger children. Location: 3rd floor; Meeting room.
🤩astronomy
15.00 – 17.00 Observation of solar activity with astronomical telescopes (in case of favorable weather) in front of the museum building.
20.00 – 23.30 Earth in space. Location: 3rd floor; Meeting room.
21.00 – 23.30 Observation of the evening sky with astronomical telescopes

Permanent exhibitions:
A miracle of nature – Jewels of the Earth
A miracle of nature – Man in time and space
A miracle of nature – The story of life on Earth
A miracle of nature – Biodiversity of the Earth
Miracle of nature – Biodiversity of Slovakia

Exhibitions:

Ashot Haas. Insight
Tailored for children. Author’s work for children in socialist Czechoslovakia
Lectures: Discovery Room, 3rd floor.
15.30 New information from the history of the Michalská veža obtained by researching written sources, lecture by Patrik Baxa, Municipal Institute for the Protection of Monuments in Bratislava
17.30 Planetary systems in space, lecture by Zdeněk Urban, Europlanet Society, Poprad

Last entry: 23:30

Program subject to change, thank you for your understanding.