{"id":624,"date":"2019-01-07T15:20:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icom-czechia.icom.cust.oxymium.net\/clenove\/region-museums\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:45:55","slug":"region-museums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/members\/region-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional museums"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brno Region Museum<\/b>
\nPorta coeli 1001, 666 02 Pre-monastery
\nwww.muzeumbrnenska.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum was established in the 1960s by merging several separate institutions. Today it consists of: the Podhor\u00e1ck\u00e9 Museum in P\u0159edkl\u00e1\u0161te\u0159\u00ed (since 1929); the Museum in \u0160lapanice (since 1934); the memorial Mound of Peace commemorating the Battle of the Three Emperors led by Napoleon near Austerlitz on 2nd December 1805 (since 1914\/1923 designed by architect Josef Fanta); the Museum in Ivan\u010dice (since 1894 with a collection of works by Alfons Mucha); the Monument of Literature in Moravia (since 2005) in the Benedictine Monastery in Rajhrad; and the Villa L\u00f6w-Beer in Brno (since 2015), which belonged to Greta Tugendhat\u2019s parents.
\nVirtual tours:\u00a0http:\/\/muzeumbrnenska.pano3d.cz\/<\/a>
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Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky u Prahy<\/b>
\nZ\u00e1mek 1
\n252 63 Roztoky
\nwww.muzeum-roztoky.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum’s expositions are held in the castle building and on the grounds of nearby Brauner\u2019s Mill. The castle expositions emphasize the period when the domain was in possession of the Liechtenstein family (1623-1803), and the phenomenon of villa summer resorts by Prague in the second half of the 19th century. Zdenka Braunerov\u00e1 Studio (1858-1934) features her personality and work as a painter, graphic artist, and book artist. The upcoming exhibition \u2018In the Footsteps of Ages\u2019 will show archaeological collections and offer a walk through prehistory added by holographic projections, computer perspectives, and videomapping.
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East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice
\n<\/b>Z\u00e1mek 2, 530 02 Pardubice
\nwww.vcm.cz<\/a>
\nThe origin of the Museum goes back to 1880. The full development The origin of the Museum goes back to 1880. The full development occurred after 1920, when the museum moved to a Renaissance castle built by the Pern\u0161tejn family. At present, it is possible to visit knights\u2019 halls with mural paintings, eight expositions and exhibitions. Among the most valuable fonds is 20th-centrury Czech studio glass, historical weapons, postcards and toys. The numismatic collection includes a unique find – some hundred Czech denar coins from the last third of the 10th century.
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Jind\u0159ich\u016fv Hradec Museum<\/b>
\nBalb\u00ednovo n\u00e1m. 19\/I, 377 01 Jind\u0159ich\u016fv Hradec
\nwww.mjh.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum was founded in 1882. It operates unique former monastic complexes of Jesuits and minorities in Jind\u0159ich\u016fv Hradec. The Jind\u0159ich\u016fv Hradec Museum houses over 70,000 items in its collection, which comprises over 100,000 collection objects of extraordinary historical, artistic and documentary value. The most famous exhibit of the Museum is Kr\u00fdza’s Nativity Scene. This movable Christmas crib containing almost 1,400 figures has been part of the collections since 1935. The collection that is unique is that of Lada sewing machines. The expositions of textile artist and designer Marie Hoppe-Teinitzer, and opera singer Ema Destinov\u00e1 are of international importance.
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Museum of Beskydy in Fr\u00fddek-M\u00edstek<\/b>
\nHlubok\u00e1 66, 738 01 Fr\u00fddek-M\u00edstek
\nwww.muzeumbeskyd.com<\/a>
\nThe Museum Beskyd Fr\u00fddek-M\u00edstek is a contribution organization established by the Moravian-Silesian Region. Its headquarters and exhibitions are situated in Fr\u00fddek Chateau. It is open all year round and offers visitors two permanent expositions, short-term exhibitions, a study library, educational activities (Senior Gymnasium, lessons for schools), and a rich cultural program in the form of concerts, theater performances, festivals, and events for families with children. There are two permanent expositions in the museum. One of them is a guided tour route through the chateau and the second is dedicated to the history and ethnography of the Beskydy region. The museum also administrates Hukvaldy Castle.
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Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9
\n<\/b>Eli\u0161\u010dino n\u00e1b\u0159e\u017e\u00ed 465, 500 01 Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 1
\nwww.muzeumhk.cz<\/a>
\nSituated on the bank of the Labe River (Elbe) in Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 and created with loving care dances the most attractive building designed by outstanding architect Jan Kot\u011bra. The institution of the Museum founded no later but in 1880 is permanently developing and collecting East Bohemia\u2019s memories with professional interest and youthful enthusiasm. Among natural sciences, historical and archaeological conserved memoirs are the War of 1866 Museum at Chlum, the memento of a conflict that belongs to the bitterest 19th century battles in Europe. Defeated Austria lost its position in the region, and Prussia embarked on the journey to form a united state of Germans.
\nOn-line museum: https:\/\/muzeumhk.cz\/program\/vystavy-online.html
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Museum of T. G. M. in Rakovn\u00edk<\/b>
\nVysok\u00e1 95, 269 01 Rakovn\u00edk
\nwww.muzeumtgm.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum’s core collection fond covers Central Bohemia and is on display in Rakovn\u00edk. Other expositions in L\u00e1ny are dedicated to the first Czechoslovak president T. G. Masaryk and his daughter Alice G. Masaryk. The Museum in Nov\u00e9 Stra\u0161ec\u00ed boasts an interesting Celtic exposition. The Joachim Barrand Memorial in Skryje exhibits trilobites and features that important paleontologist. The Jesenice Museum shows the least populated area in the Central Bohemian Region in the former Sudetenland. The hall in Nezabudice is devoted to the personality of Jaroslav Fran\u011bk.
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Museum of T\u011b\u0161\u00edn region<\/b>
\nMasarykovy sady 103\/19, 737 01 \u010cesk\u00fd T\u011b\u0161\u00edn
\nwww.muzeumct.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum of the T\u011b\u0161\u00edn Region documents the rich history, natural science and ethnography of the Czech part of T\u011b\u0161\u00edn Silesia. The Museum houses the Silesian Museum Library and the Study Room, the Club of the Museum of the T\u011b\u0161\u00edn Region, Chot\u011bbuz-Podobora Archeopark, Kotul’s Wooden House in Hav\u00ed\u0159ov, the Memorial to the Life Tragedy in Hav\u00ed\u0159ov-\u017divotice and the newly built Trojmez\u00ed Museum in Jablunkov. The museum publishes regularly a peer-reviewed non-impact magazine T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsko, a number of publications, organizes accompanying programs and public\u00a0events.
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Museum of the Vyso\u010dina in T\u0159eb\u00ed\u010d
\n<\/b>Z\u00e1mek 1, 674 01 T\u0159eb\u00ed\u010d
\nwww.zamek-trebic.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum established in 1898 displays the history and nature of the T\u0159eb\u00ed\u010d region. It is famous for collections of pipes, Moravian moldavites, minerals, and rocks, as well as the collection of nativity scenes. It annually stages events such as The Czech Republic Trade Fair of Museums or Pipe Smoking in T\u0159eb\u00ed\u010d. The former Monastery and Basilica of St. Procopius and Jewish Quarter have been inscribed on UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.
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Museum of the Wallachian Region<\/b>
\nHorn\u00ed n\u00e1m\u011bst\u00ed 2, 775 01 Vset\u00edn
\nwww.muzeumvalassko.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum profiles itself as a multidisciplinary organization in the fields of social sciences, natural sciences and technology. It educates visitors on the basis of a multidisciplinary approach through exhibitions, expositions, events and publishing activities, and educates children and youth in the environmental field. It holds a unique collection of furniture made of bent beech wood, tapestries and lighting glass; the collection of old prints is supraregionally valuable. The Museum operates the observatory that popularizes astronomy and other natural sciences.
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North Bohemian Museum in Liberec<\/b>
\nMasarykova 11, 460 01 Liberec 1
\nwww.muzeumlb.cz<\/a>
\nThe North Bohemian Museum in Liberec is a successor to the Museum of Applied Arts established in 1873. Its collection was built up with respect to the local glass and textile manufacture tradition in the European context. The core collection containing over 2,500 art objects was donated by textile industrialist and patron Heinrich von Liebieg in 1904. Regional museums closed down after 1945 and were incorporated as part of the North Bohemian Museum, therefore the Museum would begin to expand and include natural science and national history and geography fields.
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Postal Museum<\/b>
\nNov\u00e9 Ml\u00fdny 2, 110 00 Praha
\nwww.postovnimuzeum.cz<\/a>
\nThe Postal Museum was the first museum founded in the newly established state, Czechoslovakia. It was on 18 December 1918 when the first Czechoslovak postage stamps \u2013 the famous Hrad\u010dany Castle designed by Alphons Mucha were issued. In addition to an extensive collection of Czechoslovak, Czech and foreign stamps it boasts a collection of objects from the history of the postal administration (especially horse-drawn vehicles, letter boxes, signboards, uniforms, and means of telecommunication) which is on view in the Cistercian Monastery in Vy\u0161\u0161\u00ed Brod.
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Regional Museum and Gallery in Most<\/b>
\n\u010csl. arm\u00e1dy 1360\/35,\u00a0434 01 Most
\nwww.muzeummost.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum in Most was established in 1888. Since the beginning, it has been assembling historical, scientific and artistic collections with emphasis on the wider Most region, represented by three geomorphological units – the Most Basin, the Ore Mountains and the Bohemian Central Mountains. Historically, the most important part of the collections is the personal estate of Ulrika von Levetzow, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\u2019s last love, which is on display on the permanent exhibition. Collections of insects, fossils, weapons, textile, arts (including folk) and handicrafts are also extremely rare and rich.
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Regional Museum in \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov<\/b>
\nHorn\u00ed ulice 152
\n381 01 \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov
\nwww.muzeumck.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum is housed in the building of a former Jesuit seminary. It gives a comprehensive picture of the history of the city and the region through its expositions. Extensive collections from the fields of archeology, art history, ethnography or pharmacy are dominated by a ceramic model of the city \u2013 the largest of its kind in the world. The Museum branch \u2013 the writer Adalbert Stifter\u2019s Natal Home in Horn\u00ed Plan\u00e1 opens the door to the world of the historical and literary Bohemian Forest (\u0160umava). Across the river Vltava lies a castle inscribed on the UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.
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Regional museum and Gallery in Ji\u010d\u00edn<\/b>
\nVald\u0161tejnovo n\u00e1m\u011bst\u00ed 1, 506 01 Ji\u010d\u00edn
\nwww.muzeumhry.cz<\/a>
\nSince the end of the nineteenth century, the Regional Museum and Gallery in Ji\u010d\u00edn has been trying to acquire, preserve and make accessible material evidence about the development of man and the environment in which he lives. Its collections and exhibitions capture the development and history of the entire wider region of Ji\u010d\u00edn and the southern part of The Bohemian Paradise Geopark. The museum is strongly visitor-oriented and is trying to create such an environment where\u00a0 the visitors can feel comfortable and the absorption of information is not a boring one, , but an unusual and extraordinary experience. The institution is profiled as a “Museum of the Game”, which is understood primarily that the visit to the museum should be like a game for the visitor. A game of discovering information, a game of perception, a game of cognition.
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Regional Museum in J\u00edlov\u00e9 by Prague<\/b>
\nMasarykovo n\u00e1m\u011bsti 16, 254 01, Jilov\u00e9 u Prahy
\nwww.muzeumjilove.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum specializes in one of the most precious materials \u2013 gold. It was founded in 1891 by local patriot and researcher Leopold \u010cih\u00e1k. The Museum is housed in a historical house called Mince (Coins) built in the mid-14th century, which was the mining authority for Ius Regale Monanorum office until 1420 so administrated mining in the western Pos\u00e1zav\u00ed (the lower S\u00e1zava basin) and the St\u0159edn\u00ed Povltav\u00ed (the central Vltava basin). At present, the Museum has four permanent exhibitions: Gold Mining and Processing, Ora et labora (focusing on the Benedictine Monastery in Ostrov u Davle), History of the Region, and Tramping Pos\u00e1zav\u00ed. The museum operates three gold mine galleries: St. Joseph, St. Anthony of Padua and Hal\u00ed\u0159e. They are included in marked walking trails within the educational trail \u2018J\u00edlovsk\u00e9 zlat\u00e9 doly\u2019 (J\u00edlov\u00e9\u2019s Gold Mines), except for the latter.
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Regional Museum in Litomy\u0161l
\n<\/b>Jir\u00e1skova 9, 570 01 Litomy\u0161l
\nwww.rml.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum of the local history and geography was established in 1891. It is devoted to the history of the region; the permanent exhibition shows medieval archaeological finds in situ, as well as a lot of unique objects. The Museum also operates the famous composer Bed\u0159ich Smetana\u2019s Natal House and the Portmoneum that houses the museum of painter Josef V\u00e1chal. The Museum is situated in the neighborhood of the Renaissance castle inscribed on UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.
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Museum of Moravian Slovakia<\/b>
\nSmetanovy sady 179, 686 01 Uhersk\u00e9 Hradi\u0161t\u011b
\nwww.slovackemuzeum.cz<\/a>
\nSince the establishment in 1914, the Museum of Moravian Slovakia in Uhersk\u00e9 Hradi\u0161t\u011b has been dedicated to ethnography and archaeology added to by visual arts and history. The scope of research and collecting covers the whole ethnographic area of Slov\u00e1cko (Moravian Slovakia). As to the field of archaeology and history, the institution pays attention to one important era – Great Moravia, the first stable princedom of West Slavs. The Museum\u2019s branch – the Museum of Folk Distilleries in Vl\u010dnov shows the domestic production of distillates in the Moravian-Slovak borderland. The international cultural trail of St. Cyril and Methodius includes the Great Moravia Empire Monument in Star\u00e9 M\u011bsto with a newly built research and presentation center dedicated to these Slavic Missionaries.
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South Moravian Museum in Znojmo<\/b>
\nP\u0159emyslovc\u016f 129\/8, 669 02 Znojmo
\nwww.muzeumznojmo.cz<\/a>
\nThe Museum is one of the oldest museums in South Moravia. It was established in 1878 and opened the first exhibition in 1889. Today, it houses 400,000 collection items gathered through research and acquisition activities performed by the Museum\u2019s natural history and social science workplaces. The Museum operates six buildings \u2013 the Minorite Monastery; the House of Arts; Znojmo Castle with the Rotunda of St. Catherine dating from 11th to 12th century; the monument to the inventor of the lightning rod Prokop Divi\u0161 in P\u0159\u00edm\u011btice (constructed between 1750 and 1754 before Benjamin Franklin) and the ruins of Castle Corn\u0161tejn near B\u00edtov. Among others, the Museum Library has rare old prints from the office of the Premonstratensian Monastery in Louka.On-line collections: https:\/\/www.muzeumznojmo.cz\/O-muzeu\/Sb%C3%ADrky-on-line, and other activities: <\/a>https:\/\/www.muzeumznojmo.cz\/Vystavy-Aktivity-online_235<\/a>
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Vyso\u010dina Regional Gallery in Jihlava<\/b>
\nKomensk\u00e9ho 10 and Masarykovo n\u00e1m\u011bst\u00ed 24, 586 01 Jihlava
\nwww.ogv.cz<\/a>
\nThe Vyso\u010dina Regional Gallery is housed in two valuable Renaissance burgher houses in the historical center in Jihlava. Its exhibition, collection, research and publishing activities primarily focus on art from the 19th century to the present times. It holds more than 6,000 art objects.http:\/\/www.ogv.cz\/vyzva_deti_c<\/a>
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West Bohemian Museum in Plze\u0148
\n<\/b>Kopeck\u00e9ho sady 357\/2, 301 00 Plze\u0148 3
\nwww.zcm.cz<\/a>
\nBeing among the largest museum institutions in the Czech Republic, the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen was established in 1878. It houses seven permanent exhibitions in four Museum\u2019s buildings in Pilsen; additionally, it has a detached building in Rokycany: the Museum of Dr. Bohuslav Hor\u00e1k. The unique Municipal Armoury in Plze\u0148 is the largest conserved one in the Czech Republic. It was founded by Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, in 1363.
\nOn-line museum: https:\/\/www.zcm.cz\/o-muzeu\/novinky\/muzeum-virtualne
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Brno Region Museum Porta coeli 1001, 666 02 Pre-monastery www.muzeumbrnenska.cz The Museum was established in the 1960s by merging several separate institutions. Today it consists of: the Podhor\u00e1ck\u00e9 Museum in P\u0159edkl\u00e1\u0161te\u0159\u00ed (since 1929); the Museum in \u0160lapanice (since 1934); the memorial Mound of Peace commemorating the Battle of the Three Emperors led by Napoleon near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":134,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624\/revisions\/5350"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-czech.mini.icom.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}