Museums in Bratislava

The Old Town Hall is a complex of medieval buildings on the Main Square, featuring a distinctive corner tower and housing the Bratislava City Museum—one of the oldest museums in Slovakia, founded in 1868.

The Slovak National Museum is Slovakia's principal natural history and ethnographic institution, housed in a grand Historicist building on the Danube embankment. The collections cover natural history, archaeology, and Slovak folk culture.

The Slovak National Gallery is the country's most important art institution, occupying an 18th-century Water Barracks on the Danube waterfront. The gallery's collections span Gothic panel paintings to contemporary Slovak art.

The Museum of Transport is housed in a former locomotive depot near Bratislava's main station, displaying vintage trains, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles from Slovakia's transport history.

Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum occupies an extraordinary location on a narrow peninsula jutting into the Danube south of Bratislava. The striking modern building is surrounded by a sculpture park, making it one of Europe's most uniquely sited art museums.