The prince's grave
A fourth-century timber chamber fully reassembled.
Andrzej Otrębski — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ing.Mgr.Jozef Kotulič — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ing.Mgr.Jozef Kotulič — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ladislav Luppa — CC BY-SA 3.0
Poprad's regional museum, and the oldest cultural institution in the town — founded in **1876**, decades before Poprad became a place of any consequence. The collection covers the **Spiš region** and the Tatra foothills: Stone and Bronze Age archaeology, the history of the German towns that settled the region in the Middle Ages, and crafts, dress and mountain farming tools. The object the museum is known for was found in **2005** during building work in the town: the **grave of a Germanic prince** of about the fourth century, whose timber chamber was found intact underground. The wood has survived sixteen hundred years — very rare in central Europe — along with furniture and grave goods. The chamber has been reassembled in the museum. There is also a section on the **history of climbing in the Tatras** and the local mountain guides who became well known in the nineteenth century. Note: it is a small regional museum needing no more than an hour — and a good option for a wet day in Poprad.
A fourth-century timber chamber fully reassembled.
A section on the nineteenth-century mountain guides.
The story of the German towns that built the region.
Vajanského 72/4, Poprad
Poprad is a **base rather than a destination**: most visitors sleep here because it is the gateway to the High Tatras, with an airport and a main railway station. Half a day covers the town: the historic **Spišská Sobota** quarter — a complete Spiš town with its square, coloured houses and Gothic church, by far the best thing in Poprad and the thing most visitors miss. Then **this museum**, the **art gallery**, and **AquaCity**, a large thermal bath complex open all year. Otherwise Poprad is a starting point: the Tatras north, the Slovak Paradise south, and Spiš Castle east.
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