Museum was founded in 1912 by a group of enthusiasts led by Arthur and Julius Kűrthi grouped into Liptov Museum Society. The original seat of the museum was in an old vicarage from the 15th century, where the mausoleum of Andrej Hlinka is situated now. Since 1937, the museum resides in a representative building built in 1930s, and designed by a significant architect from Ružomberok, Wojciech Donner (1901-1945). The town of Ružomberok is a patron of this new museum building, one of the first purpose-built buildings of its kind in Slovakia. Building was conducted by a local builder Július Záchenský.
Museum exhibitions offer a comprehensive overview of animate and inanimate nature of the region Liptov, important archaeological findings and sites, history of the region Liptov dated from ancient times to present times, and an opportunity to enjoy the jewels of local art-historical monuments exhibited in the Gallery of Sacred Art and Exposure of Štefan Šovánka. Special attention is devoted to the history of paper production in Slovakia and a personality of Andrej Hlinka. The offer also includes a number of cultural and educational events, exhibition projects, including national and international shows of art photography, traditionally associated with the creative background of authors in Ružomberok, and with the institution of Liptov Museum. The seat of the Liptov Museum in Ružomberok holds a newly opened exhibition called Poklady spod Likavy (The treasure from under Likava), which displays the collection of 1868 silver denarii and 2 golden ducats.
Permanent exhibitions:
- guilds and crafts of the Liptov region
- the history and paper production
- archaeology and many more
There is an exposition of housing and lifestyles of different social classes of the population in Liptov in the past.
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Permanent exhibitions of hunting, fishing and culture in Liptov.
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People‘s blueprint in Liptov, sheep-keeping, history of the town Liptovsky Hradok, Gallery of bobbin lace Farmer‘s house in Vlkolinec – Exhibition of traditional housing and way of life.
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Exhibition of traditional housing and way of life
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Weight point and miner‘s knocker Masa Liptovsky Hradok – Traditions of upper Liptov mining and metallurgy
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Nook – Country colonization church, built in the last third of the 13th century in the space between Ruzomberok and Liptovská Štiavnica.
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The Castle gradually decayed in ruins. After a thorough reconstruction in recent year the tower Hunyadyho veža was opened to public. It contains the exhibition of the Castle history.
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Exposure to traditional ways of life and living mining families in the house with the original original equipment, which for museum purposes donated last owner Daniel Böhmer.
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Havránok is among the most important archaeological sites in Slovakia. It demonstrates the presence of Celts in region Liptov in time between the 4th and 1st century BC.
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Demänová SKI Center, as a part of Demänová Rezort, offers its visitors safe skiing for beginners and advanced skiers on the easy and medium slopes. Well-groomed track also offers night skiing for all ages. For greater safety, a closed ski area with instructors has been built for children.
In Demänová SKI Center you can enjoy unusual running on special inflatable wheels SNOWTUBING and have fun all day. It is driven in a modified snow trough 50m long with steeper starting and gradual roll-off on the opposite slope. Snowtubing fun is suitable for children and adults.Ski center also offers a cross-country track with a length of 550m. The circuit is permanently illuminated, artificially snowed and daily treated with special ratrak.
At Ski School Smile, they focus on all categories of clients, from complete beginners to improving sports skiers and snowboarders. For advanced skiers and snowboarders, we provide lessons in the Snow Park or freeride lessons, under the supervision of our most experienced instructors, who know the terrain well and are ready to show you Jasná even off the slopes.
There are extensive FREE car parks for trouble-free parking and three gastronomic operations of different styles.
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Come to Winter Ski-center OPALISKO located in the hearth of Liptov-region, Low Tatras close to Závažná Poruba – in the bottom of Poludnica mountaine (1 548 m n.m.). It’s 5 km from the city of Liptovský Mikuláš. It lays 640 meters above the sea-level up to 1030 m.
SERVICES IN THE CENTER
- Artificial show all ski-slops
- The daily reform of the ski-slops
- Rescue servis NON-STOP
- Toilets on ski-slops
- Free parking – 500 cars capacity
SKIING POSSIBILITIES
Five ski-slops, four ski-tows and cable-way help us to ski confortably without waitin in lines. There are a Children area, blade paths and natural ice-ring avalable. In the Ski-center there are also illuminatedd cross-country ski-paths with full lenght over 30 km. We organise night-skiing and many more interesting sport-events.
SKIRESORT EQUIPMENT
- Night-illumination of Fajka a Kücbiel ski-slops
- Children area – fenced
- Illuminated cross-country skiing (15, 5, 4, 3km)
- Ski-school and Snowboard school and kindergarden
- Ski-rent-full servis
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Mining house Vyšná Boca
Exposition of the traditional way of life and living of a mining family in a house with the original equipment. It was donated for museum purposes by the last owner, Daniel Böhmer. The mining house has a five-room layout with the original heating system. The entrance area functions as a communication area and also served to prepare food. The front room was only an occasional living room. In the backroom, which in the past was used for sleeping and daily life, there is an exhibition on the history of mining in the vicinity of Vyšná Boca. There are two storerooms in the house, one serves for occasional sleeping and storage of duvets and clothes, the second one was used to store household utensils and food. In the farm building, the “stable”, which is part of the farm, there is an exhibition of cattle, sheep and meadow farming, which has characteristic features in Bocianská valley and after the suppression of mining activities became one of the main jobs of the local population.
In the summer, demonstrations of traditional forms of hay transport “Bocké batohy” and occasional events dedicated to the mining traditions of the Bocianská valley are being held. Part of the Mining Route – a cognitive and experiential product from the portfolio of the Liptov Museum in Ružomberok. National cultural monument.
Liptov Museum Ružomberok – geology, palaeontology and botany, zoology, Feudalism, Guilds and crafts in Liptov, Ethnography, Gallery of Sacred Art of Liptov, Life and work of Andrej Hlinka, History of paper production, From the history of Ružomberok.
Museum of the Liptov village in Pribylina – exposition of housing and way of life of various social and social strata of the population of Liptov in the past.
Black Eagle Museum Liptovský Mikuláš – From the history of hunting and fishing in Liptov.
Ethnographic Museum Liptovský Hrádok – Exposition of sheepfolds and a gallery of folk art, Folk blueprint in Liptov, Gallery of bobbin lace. Comorian Office of the Likavian-Hrádok Estate, Historic Salt Road, From the History of Liptovský Hrádok.
Farmer’s house and yard Vlkolínec – Exposition of traditional housing and way of life.
Exposition of mining Maša – Liptovský Hrádok – Traditions of Hornoliptov mining and metallurgy.
Church of All Saints Ludrová – Rural colonization church, built in the last third of the 13th century in the area between Ružomberok and Liptovská Štiavnica.
Likava Castle – Its construction began due to the guarding of the passage through Váh and an important trade route that led from Považie to Orava and further to Poland.
Archaeological Museum Liptovská Mara – Havránok – one of the most important archaeological sites in Slovakia.
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Museum of Liptov Village is the most attractive landmark of the Liptov region. It displays the typical folk architecture. The impetus behind the establishing of the museum was the extensive flooding caused by the construction of the Liptovská Mara dam.
The most important cultural monuments were moved from eleven flooded communities. They now constitute the main exhibits of the museum. Entire original buildings were dismantled and moved to the museum, which was opened to public in 1991. It is the most recently opened out-door museum of Slovakia.
Precious samples of sacral and secular folk architecture are the Gothic-Renaissance manor house of Parížovce and an Early-Gothic church of the Virgin Mary from Liptovská Mara. The manor house is a fine example of some of the oldest landowners’ architecture of the Liptov region and various architectural details including the Late-Gothic wall paintings will certainly attract the attention of the tourist. The church itself is much older, its foundations were constructed in the Romanesque style and laid down probably in the 12th century. It was rebuilt in the second half of the 13th century, later expanded, and in the 17th century the tower was added to it. The village school comprising also the teacher’s apartment of Valaská Dubová and exhibition of old beehives in the orchard next to the local school will also intrigue the visitor.
Within the museum complex there is a training centre for folk crafts offering samples of folk craft and arts (weaving, bobbin-lacing, wood, metal and leather-working, the manufacturing of wicker or straw baskets, etc)., as well as the typical folk costumes.
Regular events organised in the museum are the Sunday of Shepherd-Ovenálie held last Sunday of May, Sunday of Children held in June, the Sunday of Compatriots in July, the Sunday of Bee-Keepers in August, the Day of St. Hubert in September, and Harvest Thanksgiving in October, as well as Liptov Christmas in December.
The museum also has a zoo that concentrates on farm animals and poultry including horse breeding where horse riding is possible.
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Exposition of shepherding – Wandering around Liptov, you may run into several shepherd´s houses. Those are the places where you can listen to the sound of bells of sheep, and experience the nice smell and flavours of the products of their milk. In a specialized and a unique exposition about the traditional culture of the region, you can have a look into shepherds’ lives. You will get to know their working tools, clothes, jewellery, belts and the unique shepherd´s woodcarving art.
Please note that this exhibition is only in the Slovak language. Translate the text on information boards using the text translator from photos. Download the Google translate Android or iOS app, click on Camera button and take a picture of the info board.
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In premises of the national cultural monument Čierny orol (Black Eagle) you can nowadays find the exhibition hall of Museum of Liptov and permanent exposition Dejiny poľovníctva a rybárstva v Liptove (History of hunting and fishing in Liptov).
In the time flow from the Middle Ages up to present it provides us the basic information about fauna of the region, fish and game species, you can find here many interesting zoological, historical and ethnographical exhibits. The exposition contains the hunting-fishing saloon for higher social classes and imitation of kitchen of the same type, too.
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Historic buildings Vážnica Klopačka demonstrate a tradition Hornoliptovská mining and metallurgy, which are kept in an active form until the second half of the 19th century. The premises Klopačka is selected gallery of reproductions of old mining works woodcuts from George Agricola “De re metallica libri XII” that illustrate the development of mining the 16th century technological elements and extraction procedures typical for the Liptov region. In prisons is an exposition of the history of mining and metallurgy in Liptove clothing by miners collection of mining lamps and working tools. In the form of two-dimensional panels with a text part and an extensive visual material presents the history of mining and metal processing in Bocianska and Lupcianska valley and Magurke, in Liptovský Hrádok, Krivan, Western Tatras and the Black Vah, in the central part of the Low Tatras and space Dúbravy and Liptovské Kľačany, as well as the history dolnoliptovského mining and metallurgy in Revúcka valley on the outskirts of White Creek Liptovskej floodplain Korytnice valley and insightful. Part of the journey Mining – cognitive and experiential product portfolio of the Liptov Museum. National Historic Landmark.