Victims Warn
The period of Normalisation was also reflected in the activities of the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising. The decisions of the Normalisation committees already at the end of 1969 changed the content and artistic design of the recently opened museum exhibition. The Reverence Hall of the Memorial to the Slovak National Uprising also changed in appearance as the sculpture Victims Warn, by sculptor Jozef Jankovič, was dismantled in 1972. It was replaced by the grave of an unknown warrior with a five-pointed star. In 1974, the sculpture was placed in the area of the National Cultural Monument Kalište. For the 30th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising, the museum opened a new permanent exhibition. The exhibition did not stand out from the framework of the emerging museum exhibitions in Czechoslovakia at that time. The 1970s and 1980s were also years of intensive accumulation of archival material and collection creation development at the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising. This fact led to the establishment of a specialised Archive of the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising and a special institutional library in 1980.