One of the ways the Nation’s Memory Institute spreads knowledge about non-democratic regimes is also through education and enlightenment activities – lectures, discussions, exhibitions, information leaflets, documentary films and the Festival of Freedom.

Furthermore, the ÚPN annually publishes information leaflets, which are thematically focused on selected chapters of the period of non-freedom and are a suitable addition to the curriculum.

The exhibitions pursue important topics aimed at the period of non-democratic regimes in Slovakia.

The most requested are exhibitions:

Top Secret! (2011; mapping the history of the State Security in Slovakia);

Candle Manifestation on 25th March 1988 (2013);

August 1968: Hopes and Disenchantment (2018);

We Want Freedom! The Fall of the Communist Regime in Slovakia in 1989 (2019);

Injustice Enacted. Holocaust and Anti-Jewish Legislation in Slovakia (2021) and

Victims of the Communist Regime in Slovakia (2022).

In cooperation with the Slovak National Museum, the ÚPN prepared an exhibition N89. The Path to Freedom. It is located in Bratislava Castle within the exposition of the Slovak National Museum.
Since 2010, the Nation’s Memory Institute has been organising a multi-genre Festival of Freedom, annually taking place in November in Bratislava. Under the title Festival of Freedom in Your City, it is carried out also in other Slovak regions. The most important part of the festival is the film presentation of feature films and documentaries focused on the reality of non-democratic regimes. It also includes theatre performances, exhibitions, concerts, discussions and morning workshops for pupils of elementary and secondary schools.
So far, the Nation’s Memory Institute has prepared 15 documentary films and participated in dozens of others in the form of expert cooperation or providing materials from the Archive of ÚPN and the audiovisual fund of ÚPN.