TRAIN IN THE CITY

Authors: Ľubomír Deák, Martin Entner, Michal Jajcaj

Expert cooperation: The exhibition used information, photographs and materials from the following authors and from the collections of the following persons and institutions:

Archives of the City of Bratislava, Monuments Office of the Slovak Republic, State Archives in Bratislava, OZ Bratislava and its Transformations, Press Agency of the Slovak Republic, Railways of the Slovak Republic / Railway Museum of the Slovak Republic, Július Cmorej, Ľubomír Deák, Martin Entner, Richard Halfar, Jan Horník, Vladimír Janák, Dušan Kelo, Jiří Kubáček, Štefan Magula, Peter Martinko, Viktor Ozábal, Milan Pavlovič, Marián Peciar, Ladislav Pompoš, Ľudovít Sedílek, Eva Szakalová, Ladislav Szojka, Anton Šmotlák, Zuzana Tajek - Piešová, Ivan Václavík

Year of realization: 2025

Language: Slovak, English

Presentations realized: STM - Museum of Transport in Bratislava, 27. 5. 2025 - 30. 4. 2026

Area: approx. 15 m2

Design: introductory panel (50 cm x 70 cm), 40x image panels (50 cm x 70 cm), video (approx. 4.5 min.) on a TV screen, 2x free-standing exhibit (railway signals)

Variability: yes

Annotation:

The Slovak Technical Museum - Museum of Transport in Bratislava has prepared a new image exhibition entitled "Train in the City" for the public in cooperation with the civic association Bratislava and its transformations.

The exhibition reminds visitors of two anniversaries related to the now-defunct railway lines in the capital – the 185th anniversary of the start of operation of the first horse-drawn railway in Hungary between Bratislava and Svätý Jur (October 4, 1840) and the 40th anniversary of the cessation of passenger rail transport to the Bratislava-Filiálka station and the Bratislava-Slovany stop (July 1985).

The once industrial part of Bratislava on the eastern edge of the city center, known to residents as Nivy, has changed its face beyond recognition. While older generations of Bratislava residents only nostalgically remember the original appearance of this city district, the youngest generations have no idea that trains once ran on the streets of Karadžičova, Metodova or Trnavská cesta. Trains used to run on the lines that no longer exist, providing passenger transport to Petržalka, Trnava or Komárno, but mainly freight trains heading to the railway sidings of important industrial enterprises, including the Bratislava port. The picture exhibition will introduce visitors to the historical appearance of this part of the city and its subsequent extensive transformation in recent decades by comparing period and contemporary photographs.

Loan conditions: possibility to borrow picture panels after the presentation at the STM - Museum of Transport in Bratislava, based on mutual agreement

Exhibition guarantor: Mgr. Michal Jajcaj, michal.jajcaj@stm-ke.sk, +421 918 965 706