SLOVAK NATIONAL LIBRARY

The Labyrinth of the World exhibition, which is dedicated to the life, work and legacy of Ján Amos Comenius (1592 - 1670), is open until October 22, 2023 in the Literary Museum of the Slovak National Library. During his lifetime, the Czech philosopher and thinker was a prominent figure among European scholars.

In 2022, the Slovak National Library was slowly getting back to life without the pandemic restrictions, although the times changed due to the war conflict in the Ukraine. Public events and conferences were held again. The library was active in international library structures and we managed to increase the number of digitised objects accessible online.

Sign in and you will find digital copies of books, newspapers, magazines, scientific proceedings, articles, which were published from the invention of printing until the beginning of the 21st century. All works in the public domain as well as the so-called out-of-commerce works are accessible in the member's area of the European Economic Area.

Dráma medzinárodnej sochy Martina Kukučína [The Drama of the International Statue of Martin Kukučín] aims at the history of the first Kukučín monuments in the world that were created abroad much earlier than those in his homeland. Martin Kukučín or Matej Bencúr (by his real name) was praised abroad not only during his life but also after his departure and death in 1928. And he is still respected and honoured even today. However, due to a lack of information and Kukučín’s modesty, people on Brač Island and in Latin America knew little or even nothing about his writings.