Lazisko, open air museums and folk architecture

Museum of Liptov Village in Pribylina, the youngest museum in Slovakia was opened in 1991. The open-air museum differs from other museums in Slovakia by the fact that in addition to objects of wooden folk architecture, there are built homes of higher social classes of the this region in the past. The settlement structure is similar to larger Liptov municipalities with town privileges and prerogatives. In the middle of the village there is a large open space called rínok where residents gathered...

Orava Village Museum in Zuberec located in beautiful natural surroundings of Rohace Mountains tries to illustrate a living of people in Orava region in the past. Visitors can see more than 50 houses and several other buildings of folk architecture. Houses are decorated and there are kept pets here and in the summer typical crops are grown here, too. The museum is divided into five parts, which the form of settlements and villages are presented in. Towering above the whole village, the wooden Gothic...

Museum of the Slovak Village is the largest ethnographic exhibition in nature in Slovakia. The open-air museum offers a comprehensive picture of traditional building culture and housing throughout Slovakia with the various types and regional building specifics. It shows the way of life in the Northwest Slovakia during the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Museum of Slovak village is located in the southeastern part of Martin in Jahodnícke háje. Opening hours May...