Characteristics:
The Museum of History is a major part of the system of specialized museums within the Slovak National Museum. It manages a diverse and precious collection which currently boasted nearly 250,000 individual items from national history, arts and culture, traditional and artistic crafts, political history, military history, economics and non-European cultures. The museum administers more than 100,000 numismatic items in its collection and other collections documenting the history and ethnic and cultural development of Slovaks outside of Slovakia (foreign Slovaks). The collections of folk art, portrait work, period furniture, city and folk clothing, military items, sacral art, textiles and ceramics are exceptionally valuable. In addition to Bratislava Castle, the museum uses other exhibition space in premises shared with the Slovak National Museum in its main building on Vajanského nábrežie in Bratislava and in other museums.
