The TANAP Museum continues the traditions dating back to 1883, when the Hungarian Carpathian Association founded the Carpathian Museum in Poprad. In 1949, the Tatra National Park Act was adopted. One of the tasks of the park administration was to create a Research Station and Museum. The TANAP Museum was located in the Podtatranské Museum in Poprad from its establishment in 1957 until 1959. After moving to Tatranská Lomnica, the first exposition was created in the so-called Sečéniov Summer Palace. The new exposition was installed in the new building, one of the first purpose-built museum buildings in Slovakia. The museum's collections contain many objects from the fields of botany, zoology, history, cartography, geology and ethnography.