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!
A typical white cube with an unusual selection of exhibitions, worth a visit. In the former industrial heart…
The unusual sculpture garden, which witnessed the meetings of the artistic legends of the Galanda Group, will today…
The scope of ATELIER XIII is to connect and present contemporary artists.
This interactive science center is not your typical museum, come and touch the science
Kunsthalle Bratislava is a gallery presenting exhibitions of current domestic and foreign visual artists. It makes visual art available…
The A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture is a multi-functional non-commercial center in the center of Bratislava
The Collection includes 60,000 art pieces of domestic and foreign origin. The Slovak National Gallery organizes exhibitions and…
Small Carpathian Museum in Pezinok is a dynamic museum of the 21st century, presenting the history of viticulture…
100% discount with Bratislava Card (*2024) This museum has nationwide operation focusing on the history and culture of…
Exhibition about the life and work of Bratislava-born and composer Johan N. Hummel (1778 – 1837) is located in…
Don’t forget to visit the unique PASSAGE project by Matej Kren, installed in Palffy Palace (GMB), which achieves…
In one of the oldest streets of Bratislava, you will find the Central European House of Photography, which…
On one of the off the beat tracks to the Bratislava Castle, this small space offers abundance of…
The gallery brings together some thirty artists, mostly from former Soviet countries whose work addresses issues related to…
The ÚĽUV Gallery is a place where thematic exhibitions take place devoted to different aspects of traditional craft and…
The last owner, Count Emil Mirbach, bequeathed the palace to the city with the wish to establish the…
The grounds of the today´s museum were once part of the Limes Romanus as the museum is located…
100% Discount with Bratislava Card (*2024) The mission of the museum is to preserve and promote Jewish culture…
100% discount with Bratislava Card* The museum focuses on the collection, protection, processing and presentation of articles demonstrating the…
Since its founding, the gallery has been systematically engaging in exhibiting and presenting of Slovak contemporary art, discovering…
100% discount with Bratislava Card The museum focuses on the collection, registration, restoration, maintenance, presentation, and publication of archeological…
Bunker B-S 8 Hřbitov (The Cemetery) dates from the 1930s, it was built as a part of the…
The Slovak National Museum is the top state institution in the field of museum activity in the Slovak Republic.…
Bunker B-S 6 Vrba is one of the preserved buildings of the Bratislava section of the Czechoslovak fortifications,…
"We believe in the liberty of the contemporary art institution to lead a risky, unframed, poetical and political…
LOM space is a sound laboratory of LOM, Bratislava-based label and audio equipment manufacturer. Along-side of manufacturing, it…
3dland Gallery is the museum of optical illusions and 3D tricks in the center of Bratislava (SNP 474/15).…
Viktoria's Gallery is a modern and contemporary art gallery located in the center of Bratislava.
The mission of the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) is not only to collect and preserve art, but also…
Ateliér.EM was founded in 2009. It organizes the international SEM 1.–7. 2009–2015 symposium, whose results are presented in the…
The Gallery Cit enables professional graphic artists to present and sell their pieces of art in the form of…
The Roman Fecik Gallery is focused on modern and contemporary art. Its main purpose is to evoke a spirit…
20% discount with Bratislava Card* The Music Museum is a national documentary, scientific research and methodological workplace with nationwide…
Slovak Gas Museum maps the history, as well as current situation of the Slovak gas industry. The museum is…
The Museum of Education and Pedagogy is a nationally specialized facility, the only one of its kind in the…
The museum is in the early stage of its existence and is based on the voluntary work of professionals.…
The ÚĽUV shop located on Nám. SNP is enriched with a presentation part. We gradually introduce the selected particularities…
The UMELKA Gallery is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Slovakia. It was established by the Arts Association…
Flatgallery has been opened since December 2012 as a private contemporary fine art gallery in the intimate environment of…
“The gallery is to be,” Marian Mudroch wrote in the first annual catalogue of the gallery in 2011. Since…
The gallery focuses on contemporary fine art exhibitions. The gallery’s key project is organizing the annual international Sculpture and…
Exhibition place for young Slovak designers oriented on traditional crafts and folk production. The philosophy of this Center is…
The exhibition is dedicated to the current and historical waterworks system of Bratislava and its surroundings. It is located…
The Červený Kameň Museum is situated in the historical buildings of Červený Kameň Castle, which is a dominant structure…
The museum specializes in the presentation of the material and spiritual heritage of the Croatian ethnic minority in Slovakia,…
Baroque pharmacy with impressive murals on the ceilings serves as a ticket office for Michalská Tower and an…
The focus of the gallery, intended as a sister project to the photographic festival OFF Bratislava, is centred…
Unique Roccoco house in the historical core of the city is one of the locations of the Bratislava…
The Museum of Viticulture is located on the ground floor and basement of Apponyi House. The museum traces the…
The Natural History Museum in Bratislava is a fascinating place where the history of the Earth, nature and…
The Museum of the Police Force of the Slovak Republic is a specialized museum focused on the documentation of…
The bunker B-S 4 Lány is a remnant of the Bratislava Section of the Czechoslovak Fortification System from…
The spacious gallery Satelit represents the Mecca of Slovak design.
The well-known Medium gallery is predominantly an exhibition space of the Bratislava‘s Academy of Arts, but some of…
The Museum of Viticulture is located on the ground floor of Apponyi House. The cultivation of vines and…
The Nedbalka Gallery´s mission is to promote public understanding and enjoyment of art by the foremost artists working…
The concept of the exposition held in the Old Town Hall concentrates on presentation of the history of…
Only three cities in Europe - Bratislava, Amsterdam and Budapest – can boast that they have museums with…
The Natural Science Museum, focuses on the research, documentation and presentation of the natural environment, in particular within…
Former pharmacy serves as an exposition of pharmacy and mainly as a visitor center for Michalska tower.
The Arachaeological Museum is a branch with national influence and specializes in collecting, recording, restoring, preserving , presenting…
Gallery of modern and contemporary Slovak and international art at a peninsula surrounded by Danube.
Red Stone castle, named after the red colour of the quartzite on which was built, is situated nearby…
The International House of Art for Children is always full of entertaining and educational exhibitions, which appeal not…
The Heydukova Street Synagogue is the only synagogue in Bratislava. Constructed in 1923-1926, it is a Cubist building…
One of Bratislava's most interesting museums, at least for the technically-inclined, is the Museum of Transport, adjacent to…
Housed within one of Bratislava's finest rococo buildings, this exhibition of antique timepieces covers clockmaking from the late…
This memorial was named after the main pressburg's Rabbi Moshe Schreiber, also known as Chatam Sofer, who was…
The castle, on a hill above the old town, dominates the city of Bratislava. Enjoy also a beuatiful…
This neo-classical palace, formerly owned by Count Franz Zichy.
The history of the Old Town Hall dates back to the beginnings of the mediaeval town in the…
The Primate’s Palace (1778-1781) was built on property originally belonging to the archbishop of Esztergom. The facade of…
This palace was built in the middle of the 19th century by Count Jan Pálffy, who was then…
This palace was built for the main administrator of imperial property on the king’s estate, Leopold de Pauli,…
The rococo Mirbach Palace was built in 1768-1770 by Bratislava brewer Michael Spech.
The bulbous yet elegant copper roof of Michael's Gate is one of the symbols of Bratislava.
The smallest rococo palace in Bratislava. It was owned by the administrator of the royal property in Magyaróvár,…
Kern House stands on the corner of Rybárska brána (Fisherman's Gate) and Hviezdoslavovo Square. Fisherman's Gate was one…
For the local people, the western part of Bratislava is one of the most popular venues for a…
This rococo summer palace was built in 1760 for the chairman of the Hungarian Royal Chamber and advisor…
Immerse yourself in the world of mirrors and enjoy the illusion of an infinity. Inspired by the surrounding…
You are invited to visit a Hutterite house dating from 1717 where you will learn a lot from…
Schaubmar´s Mill is part of the Slovak National Gallery.
Budmerice, a little village between Bratislava and Trnava, situated in the shadow of the Small Carpathians, is big…
ZOYA MUSEUM in Modra is a private institution that was first open to public on October 30, 2009.…
SATELITE – the SCD design gallery is mainly an exhibition space for the presentation of graphical, industrial and creator…
The Ján Cikker Museum was established in 2004 through the decision of the Ján Cikker Foundation, which is the…
The Theater Museum Institute collects, processes and provides for museum collections recording theater culture in Slovakia from the very…
The museum presents collection items from the railway sector in Slovakia in exhibitions mainly involving operational as well as…
Museum of Photography is located right in the historical centre of Bratislava in the building of Central European…
50% discount with Bratislava Card The Jewish Community Museum focuses on the history and culture of the Jewish…
