The Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology in Liptovský Mikuláš
The museum occupies with the protection of nature and caves in Slovakia.
It has the fixed exhibitions: The minerals, Caves in Slovakia,The nature under the protection.The exposition of minerals - you can admire about 400 minerals from the Slovak areas and foreign areas as well.
The exposition about caves - is about the lifestyle in the past when people were connected with the caves.
The Jezuits settled in Liptovsky Mikulas in 1722. They built a monkery with the large garden. This baroque house with one stage did not serve for their objects for a long time because Jozef II. closed The Jezuits baroque house in 1773.
The Slovak amateur theatre of G. F. Belopotocky performed their plays in this house from the 1832 – 1835 and 1840 – 1843. The district people´s committee was in the building until 1955 when this building was taken by the Slovak museum of Caves, the only museum of this type in Slovakia.
The national district archive was removed to the west part of the building in 1961.
Admission fee:
Adults 1,49 €
Children 0,66 €
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