The museum, which is supposed to commemorate the Slovak National Uprising and the period II. World War
In 1953, the Slovak Academy of Sciences organised a scientific conference that dealt with the issues of processing the history of the Slovak National Uprising. The conclusion of this conference was the request to create a separate Museum of the Slovak National Uprising (hereinafter the SNP Museum). The museum was supposed to have a scientific-research and documentation character in the area of the history of the Slovak National Uprising and the national liberation struggle of the Slovaks.
On 8 May 1955, the SNP Museum was established, but it did not have a clear profile, organisation, or concept. These questions only began to be addressed in 1956. Since July 1957, when the Slovak Academy of Sciences granted the SNP Museum a scientific character, the museum has been a national museum and scientific institute.
There are 66,956 pieces of museum collections, almost 140,000 pieces of archival collections, and a library with 20,000 book units available. The museum also includes the SNP Memorial, which was completed in 1969 and is one of the most important monuments in Slovakia. The monument should remind people of the Slovak National Uprising and the period of World War II. World War. The architect is Dušan Kuzma. The museum has a permanent exhibition on Slovakia in the antifascist resistance movement of Europe in the years 1939-1945.
The museum is the professional guarantor of the Slovak National Exhibition in Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. In Slovakia, he also manages other exhibitions in Kalište, Nemecká and Tokajík.
There is a depository and storage areas in the basement of the building. In the lower part of the building, there are workspaces of a scientific nature. There is a park near the museum that houses an open-air museum of heavy combat equipment (historical tanks, infantry vehicles, howitzers, a machine gun carriage from the Hurban armoured train). At the entrance to the area, there is the most interesting exhibit, the Li 2 plane, which was used to transport people and material during the Slovak National Uprising.
