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Men's part of the house was situated on the opposite side from the women's part. The master of the house performed his work here - he handled correspondence, met with partners and friends, with whom he also spent time smoking pipes. Smoking was widespread in the past, and the pipes themselves have become the subject of artistic creation and collecting.
In the corner, on the right at the entrance to the room, there is a special, now completely unknown type of furniture - a stand for storing pipes - the so-called pipatory (first third of the 19th century).
On the table from the same period, there are pipes from the 17th - 20th century, made of ceramics, wood, porcelain, metal and sea foam - magnesium silicate hydrate. The material´s name comes from the fact that people sometimes believed that it was petrified sea foam.
Above the pipes there is a portrait of Ignatius Alexander, doctor Vojtech Alexander´s father, painted according to a small business card photo.
In the side display you can see calamari, a knife for opening leaves, weights, a table bell for servants in the shape of the head of an oriental deity and a Dutch figural stand for stationery and seals (17th - 20th century).
Above the display case there is a lithograph depicting the Zelené Pleso Tarn (József Molnár, the last third of the 19th century).
To the right of the display case, on the Biedermeier table, you can see an Empire-style column gazebo with figural mechanics on the dial (Osthalder, Vienna, early 19th century). In addition to the rich antique decoration, there are figures from ancient mythology - the Sphinx, the head of Medusa, Cupid and Psyche, Muses; there are two Cupids on the dial at work - one on the anvil of the arrowhead and the other with his foot set in motion a disc grinder with which he sharpened the arrowhead.
The round relief by the famous Bratislava sculptor, Alois Riegele, depicts the high school profesor, Friedrich Scholz of Kežmarok (around 1910). It served as a model for his tombstone, which was built by grateful students at the old cemetery.
The back part of the room is adapted to the men's study. The Neo-Rococo men's desk is made of walnut wood (third quarter of the 19th century). On the desk there is an ashtray made of turtle armor.
There is a rare 19th-century Persian rug on the ground. The Empire wall clock (circa 1810) is carved from linden wood, while mythological monsters - griffins were used here as symbols of Napoleon's power.
Next to the tile stove from the end of the 19th century, there are Baroque floor clocks from the 18th century with painted clock-face made in Spiš.
