The 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.

A wide collection of exhibits of European importance is the result of hard work of the museum. The rarest exhibits that can be found here are for example Palaeolithic Stone Industry, silver grave decorations, a Romanesque sword of 11th century, a collection of gold coins, guild distinctions, evidences of traditional clothing, a collection of paintings on glass and valuable jewellery coming from the region. European importance has also a collection of invertebrates and unique palaeontology findings of flora and fauna.
The most important problem of the museum is lack of proper exhibition rooms. Present rooms have only provisional character and they do not allow to organise a proper presentation of the wide collections. That is way exhibitions and other forms of presenting the exhibits are often organised outside the museum.

Zdroj: www. muzeum.sk