Bratislava City Museum

Most of the museum’s highly- prized artistic and historic artefacts are to be found within the collection of artisanal crafts.

The most numerous is the collection of ceramics (Haban, Holíč and western-Slovak folk faience, Slovak and German stoneware, earthenware and china from various European china producers, as well as modern ceramics from the 20^th century including masterworks of painters); functional and decorative glass objects from the 18^th to the 20^th centuries and sacred items (especially sculpts, textile, reliquary and works from monasteries) originating mainly from Bratislava churches and monasteries. There is a smaller collection of stone statues of saints from Bratislava Calvary from the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

In the typologically varied collection of historic clocks from the 17^th to the 20^th centuries, products made by local clock makers predominate, supplemented with the collection of clock-making tools and aids used in clock-workshops. Also highly-prized are paintings on glass, engraved honey-bread and blueprint-moulds, items made from precious metals and jewels.

The collection of furniture predominantly from the 19^th century is augmented with the collection of historical lighting devices – chandeliers, lamps and candle posts. There is a smaller collection of paintings and drawings mainly of a documentary character with motifs of Bratislava.