Museum of Prehistoric Slovakia
Museum of Prehistoric Slovakia was established in the area of “Prepost Cave“ in 2007. It is an open-air educational exposition displayed directly on the spot valuable for having been occupied by Neanderthal Man. Visitors can become familiar with the time period he lived in, his way of life inside the community, tools he made, tools that were discovered, animals that lived in the territory of Bojnice, the way he hunted these animals, animal bones found here and many other interesting facts about the time when every day was meant to be a fight for life... There is a diorama featuring the life of prehistoric people in front of the massive travertine overhang.... -
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Bojnice castleBojnice castle is a national cultural monument and museum at the same time. It is one of the most beautiful monuments in Slovakia and is visited by visitors from all over the world.
It is also one of the oldest and most distinguished of Slovak fortresses, standing on a travertine hill above the town. The first written records of its existence come from 1113 in a document from the Zobor abbey. In this Latin written document King Koloman confirmed the property as belonging to the Benedictine monastery of St. Hypolita in the upper Nitra.
Originally the fortress was made from wood and grew out of the older fortress. Gradually over the 13th century it was built up from stone as property of the Poznanovec family. The outer walls of the fortress were shaped according to the uneven rocky terrain, so creating the irregular outline with extended fortification... -
The Upper-Nitra MuseumThe Upper-Nitra Museum is one of the latest museums in Slovakia because it was open in 1985 and was originally a branch of the Slovak National Museum in Bojnice. It functioned as the first museum on the land of the Upper-Nitra region.
The most influential persons had tried to open a museum since 1924, and the first museum collected exhibits that became the beginnings of many other museum collections. Over many years the Upper-Nitra Museum has become the most important centre of cultural and social activities of not only the city of Prievidza, but also the whole region...