Culture & Arts
Banská Štiavnica is a town where history meets a rich cultural and artistic scene.
Its lanes breathe history, yet pulse with contemporary life. The town has plenty of museums and galleries that bring its rich history and art closer to visitors – from the Open-air Mining Museum, where you can experience the authentic atmosphere of mining life, to modern galleries showcasing contemporary art. Throughout the year, Banská Štiavnica hosts numerous festivals celebrating music, theatre, literature and film.
The historic town centre is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is home to many monuments, such as the Old Castle and the New Castle, St Catherine’s Church and the Calvary. Each of these buildings tells its own story and adds to the town’s unique atmosphere. If you’re looking for interactive experiences, there are exhibitions such as the Bank of Love, where you can discover the longest love poem in the world, or the Glanzenberg Hereditary Adit, which takes you underground right beneath the town. Banská Štiavnica is a place where everyone finds something to enjoy – whether you are a history or art lover, or just looking for new experiences.
Right in the town centre you can explore one of the oldest adits in the region. Generations of miners cut it by hand, and it was […]
This Baroque town palace was once the seat of the Mining Court. Today the Slovak Mining Museum displays its exceptional mineralogical collection here. The collection of […]
The Kammerhof is the largest historic building complex in town. As early as the 16th century it was the seat of the mining administration, headed by […]
This was the first mining academy and one of the first technical academies in the world. It was founded by Maria Theresa in 1762, building on […]
Miners were once called to work by the knocks of a wooden mallet on a wooden board. Five mining knocking towers survive in Slovakia, and two […]
Miners believed in supernatural beings that they did not want to anger under any circumstances. That is why they were not allowed to kill any living […]
One of the most visited attractions in Banská Štiavnica. The underground exhibition in the Bartolomej Adit offers an extraordinary experience: a real descent into the mine. […]
In the past, almost every burgher house in Štiavnica had its own adit. Just 75 metres long, the Michal Adit in the Berggericht is the shortest […]
This interactive exhibition uses modern technology to take you back to the 18th century. With the help of virtual reality you can see what Banská Štiavnica […]