The foundation stone in the center of Martin was laid on April 6, 1864, and its solemn tapping was performed by the then acting first vice-chairman of the Slovak Matica, Karol Kuzmány, an Evangelical priest and superintendent.

After the revival of Slovak Matica on Jan. 1, 1919, the original seat was restored by the Czechoslovak government through the Ministry with a power of attorney for the administration of Slovakia.

The Czechoslovak state authorities operated in it this time, and the capacity development plan of the maticas association was not sufficient.

The second building of Slovak Matica is currently the central seat of the institution on Pavel Mudroň Street in the wider centre of Martin.

A monument to the famous Slovak nationalist and writer Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský was unveiled in the courtyard in front of the building.

In 1965, he was replaced by the allegorical statue of Slovak Matica by the academic sculptor Ján Kulich, while the monument to Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský moved to the first mother building.

Characteristic elements of the building such as high columns, portico, tympanums and strict symmetry make it a work of neoclassical architecture.

In addition to the administrative part, this also applies to the fencing, the garden park and the memorial plaque to the 48 tortured participants in the Slovak National Uprising of 1944.

In the garden area, in the Park of St. Cyril and Methodius, there is a representative pantheon of busts of important national and mother actors.

The first bust was unveiled on October 2, 2012, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the codifier of standard Slovak, Anton Bernolák.