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Housed in the Muza hotel-restaurant, the Mihal Gallery is a unique project that seeks to showcase the life and work of world-renowned artist Andy Warhol in an interesting way. Among the twenty-five works is the famous, oft-reproduced painting of Marilyn Monroe, but this one is an unpublished work that Warhol created by hand. It's the most precious work to be seen in the country by this pop-art icon, originally from Eastern Slovakia.

Not far from the confluence of the Slatina and Hron rivers, in the old town of Zvolen, there is an urban castle, built between 1370 and 1382 under the reign of King Louis the Great of Hungary. It was then renovated during the 16th century and more recently in the 1960s. Today, it houses a beautiful collection of Renaissance paintings belonging to the national gallery as well as temporary exhibitions of artists or young art students.

The exhibition, which was opened to the public in 1983, is located in a baroque manor in the eighteenth century. It presents the development of popular art of Ukrainians and ruins in Slovakia from the sixteenth century to the present. The two dominant points of the exhibition are a rare collection of icons and the works of the national artist Dezider Milly (1906-1971). His paintings describe and paint rural man from inside, a beautiful historical testimony.

The region's largest gallery hosts exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art, as well as symposia. Housed in the former county seat of Košice, the classical architecture creates an interesting dialogue with the most contemporary works. In April 1945, the first Czechoslovak government met here, during the few weeks when Košice was the capital of the new Republic proclaimed after the fall of Nazism.

This is undoubtedly one of Bratislava's most interesting galleries, thanks to its fine collections of European paintings from the ^16th to ^18th centuries: Dutch, Italian, German, Spanish and English. But it also boasts some splendid paintings by Slovak masters of the ^19th century, notably Ladislav Nedňansky and his superb landscapes and popular scenes painted in the manner of the Impressionists, or Dominik Skutecký, with his working-class scenes.