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Bratislava – Slovak National Museum

The beginnings of the Slovak National Museum (SNM) are connected with the endeavour of the Slovak nation for national emancipation and self-determination. The SNM is connected to the tradition of the Matica Slovenská Museum and the Museum of the National House in Martin, which developed the Slovak Museology Society. These endeavours reached a peak in 1908 with the opening of the first permanent exhibition in Martin in a building built from a national collection. From the beginning the museum built up archaeological, ethnographic, historical, numismatic, art-historical, creative art and natural-science collections. In 1924 the Society of the Slovak National Geographic and History Museum founded the Slovak National Geographic and History Museum, to which in the same year was added the Agricultural Museum as a branch of the Czechoslovak Agricultural Museum in Prague. In 1940 these two museums were merged into the Slovak Museum seated in Bratislava. In 1961 the Slovak National Museum in Martin was joined with the Slovak Museum in Bratislava under the joint title of the Slovak National Museum Seated in Bratislava. Today the Slovak National Museum is the top state collection, scientific-research and cultural-education establishment in the field of museological activity in the Slovak Republic. Its mission is to, on the basis of research and scientific analysis, gather, preserve, scientifically evaluate, professionally process, make available and in the public interest to use collection objects as evidence of the development of the natural environment and society in Slovakia, the Slovak nation and ethnic societies. In the framework of its mission it fulfils tasks related to the creation of collections as a part of national cultural heritage, their recording and protection. In the field of its cultural-education function it presents the collections by means of permanent exhibitions at home and abroad and also realises other forms of museological communication. It resolves scientific-research tasks and makes available the results of this work by means of publishing activities. The SNM is at the same time a coordination, methodological, professional advisory, statistical, educational and information centre for the whole field of museology in the Slovak Republic. The SNM carries out all these and other tasks by means of its directorate and 16 specialised museums, which are documentary, scientific-research and methodological workplaces for the field of museological documentation in the framework of their specialisation.

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