Student: Adriana Marikova
Balneological Museum Piestany
This museum in Piestany was founded in 1931 thanks to the Piestany Museum Society and the Winter family, lessors of the Piestany spa. It was of local-history character, but since 1966 specializes in balneology and the history of Slovak watering places and climatic spa. The museum is located in the spa Hall, built in 1893, where also exhibitions of balneohistory, mineral waters in Slovakia, ethnography and archeology are installed. This museum exposed the unique statuette of a woman carved from a mammoth tusk and known as the "Venus of Moravany" was found close to the springs in 1938. It is considered to be the oldest example of fine art currently found in Slovakia, an estimated 22,500 years old.
Main exposition in Spa Hall expose archaeology, history and ethnography of Piestany's region. There is also remarkable ethnographic exposition - folk costume, sculptures, ceramics, original village house of West Slovakian farmer.
There are also external museum expositions. There is Memory room of poet Ivan Krasko who lived and worked in Piestany in 1945 - 1958. The exposition is established in his flat, where you can see original furniture, papers, books and photographs. Memory room of poet Ivan Krasko is situated in Nabrezie Ivana Kraska Street 2. Then you can find here a new exposition "History of the Slovak Spas". This exposition presents the history of both existing and vanished Slovak spas. Villa Dr. Liska is situated in Stefanikova Street 1, close to the lutheran church.
