Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic, Kremnica Office

The Kremnica branch office of the Banská Bystrica Regional Centre of the Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic is a field department which carries out the state supervision of the protection of monuments on the territory of the districts of Žiar nad Hronom and Žarnovica. The town of Kremnica is its seat.

The main activity of the office is to direct the activities of citizens in saving, renovating, restoring and correctly using 244 immovable and 532 movable cultural monuments and conservation areas in the districts of Žiar nad Hronom and Žarnovica. The Office adopts measures to eliminate shortcomings in the protection of monuments and provides professional and methodological assistance to 49 municipalities and four towns (Kremnica, Nová Baňa, Žarnovica, Žiar nad Hronom) in registering their historical monuments. It also elaborates materials for territorial planning documentation of the state administration authorities and if necessary it provides for the temporary storage of movable cultural monuments. It participates in research projects targeted on the cultural heritage on the territory in its care, in which the town of Kremnica is noteworthy. Editorial, promotional and educational activities constitute a significant part of its work.