The influence of the Slovak National Uprising on post-war development in Slovakia and the need to document and, above all, preserve the active participation of Slovaks in the fight against fascism and the suffering, sacrifices and losses inflicted on humanity by National Socialism in the years of the Second World War led to the establishment of the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in 1955.
In 1953, the Slovak Academy of Sciences organized a scientific conference on the history of the Slovak National Uprising. One of the conclusions of the conference was the call to establish a Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, which would carry out scientific research and documentation activities in the field of the history of the Slovak national liberation struggle and the history of the Slovak National Uprising. The efforts to establish the SNP Museum were also supported by the public interest in the exhibition dedicated to the Slovak National Uprising, which was visited by 10,000 people in 1953. The Museum of the Slovak National Uprising (Múzeum Slovenského národného povstania) in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, has always been a memorial and museum dedicated to the Slovak National Uprising of 1944. It documents the resistance against the German occupation during the Second World War and Slovakia's role in the fight against fascism. The striking building, which resembles an inverted pyramid, houses an extensive collection of artifacts, photographs and documents that shed light on the history and events of the uprising.
