THE PERMANENT EXPOSITION

The Permanent Exposition presents the development of the literature and book culture of Slovakia from ancient history to the present day.

Links: detail of the event at the institution's website

The exposition, which presents to visitors centuries of Slovak literary history, is chronologically divided into 9 parts:
I.      The National Hall - Seat of Matica slovenská /1863 - 1875/
II.     The Great Moravian Empire /800 - 1000 AD/ - the cradle of Slavonic literature
III.    The New Constitution of the Medieval Literature after the rise of the Hungarian state /1000 - 1500/
IV.   Renaissance and Humanistic Literature /1500 - 1650/
V.    Literature of the Baroque Period in Slovakia /1650 - 1780/
VI.   Enlightenment and Beginnings of the National Awakening /1780 - 1820/
VII.  Classicism /1820 - 1840/
VIII.  Romanticism /1840 - 1880/ and Matica slovenská years /1863 - 1875/
IX.   Realism and Slovak Modernism /1870 - 1918/