Top museums and galleries
Museums
Bratislava City Museum
Old Town Hall – Primaciálne námestie 3 – closed for reconstruction
Museum of Viticulture in Apponyi House – Radničná
The museum traces the history of viticulture, growing vines, harvesting and the process of winemaking within the territory of the city from antiquity up to the present day. The other floors accommodate the Period Rooms Museum with the examples of furniture in the interior of a town house at the end of the 18th and the end of the 19th centuries. Opening hours: daily except Mondays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
weekends 11 a.m. – 6 p.m
St. Michael´s Tower – Michalská 24
A museum of arms and medieval fortification. The balcony of the Tower offers great view of the Old Town.
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
weekends 11 a.m. – 6 p.m
Museum of History – Bratislava Castle – closed for the reconstruction
Ars Liturgica – Goldsmithery in the Service of Liturgy
An exhibition on the occasion of the Year of Christian Culture presents sacral objects made from precious metals used in the liturgy of the Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches in Slovakia.
from 15. 5. 2010 to 30. 4. 2011
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m
Natural History Museum – Vajanského nábrežie 2
Mineralogical collections and international explorations and variety of fauna in Slovakia.
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Culture – Zsigray Mansion, Židovská 17
A museum presents the development of the material and spiritual Jewish culture.
Opening hours: daily except Saturdays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Galleries
Slovak National Gallery – Rázusovo nábrežie 2,
Permanent exhibitions : 16th – 18th Century European Art, Gothic Art in Slovakia, Baroque Art in Slovakia, 19th Century Art in Slovakia
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m
Primate´s Palace – Primaciálna ul. 1
Tapestries from England
During reconstruction, a series of six unknown tapestries was found folded behind wallpaper, depicting the ancient legend of tragic love of Hero and Leander.
Exhibition of 17th century Dutch and Flemish genre painting and of 16th and 17th century Italian painting.
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 11 a.m. – 5 p.m
Mirbach Palace – Františkánske námestie 11
The permanent exhibition of Baroque paintings and sculptures. Prominent exhibitions of contemporary Slovak and international artists.
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 11 a.m. – 5 p.m
Pálffy Palace –Pánska ul. 19
Permanent exhibitions of gothic panel painting and sculpture and 20th century art in Slovakia
Opening hours: daily except Mondays 11 a.m. – 5 p.m
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum – Čuňovo – Vodné dielo
Museum of modern contemporary art situated on the edge of a peninsilu where the mighty Danube flows.
Opening hours: daily except Mondays
summer season : 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.(May – September)
winter season 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (October – April)