Historic houses in Bratislava

The Bratislava City Museum (Múzeum mesta Bratislavy, MMB) is a museum in Bratislava. The museum was founded in 1868 and is the oldest surviving museum in Slovakia. The Bratislava City Museum documents the history of the capital from prehistoric times to the 20th century. The main exhibition is locat

The House of the Good Shepherd is a rococo house from the second half of the 18th century in Bratislava. It is one of the best Rococo buildings in the whole of Bratislava. The house was built for a Bratislava merchant in 1760-1765 and belongs to several preserved original buildings of the Bratislava

The Bratislava Castle (Bratislavský hrad) is the main castle of Bratislava. The Bratislava castle is a large rectangular building with four corner towers that stands on an isolated rocky hill of the Little Carpathians directly above the Danube river in the middle of the city. The Bratislava castle p

The Period Rooms Museum is located in the Palace of Aponi in Bratislava. The Palace of Aponi is a Rococo house and a national cultural monument in the Old Town of Bratislava, now part of the Old Town Hall. Count Juraj Aponi (from Oponice) built the palace between 1761 and 1762. In 1867 the palace wa

The Johann Nepomuk Hummel Museum is a museum in Bratislava that is dedicated to Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1770 - 1837). His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. The exhibition of the life and works of this composer is locat

The Museum of Pharmacy - Red Crayfish Pharmacy is housed in an original pharmacy "At the Red Crayfish" and much of its original interior was preserved. The pharmaceutical collection contains about 8,500 items and 2880 volumes of historical pharmaceutical literature, which makes it one of its kind in

The Police Museum Bratislava is a specialized museum that belongs to the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic. The Police Museum of the Slovak Republic focuses on documenting the origin, development and activities of security and police authorities in Slovakia. The museum's permanent expositi