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Chateau At Kamenice Nad Lipou
Kamenice nad Lipou ( cs, zámek v Kamenici nad Lipou) lies in the northwestern region of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, some twenty kilometres north of Jindřichův Hradec, in Pelhřimov District. The chateau acquired its present Neo-classical appearance in the early 19th century. In 1580–1583, the original 13th-century castle was converted into a Renaissance mansion graced by a courtyard with arcades and a garden. The Baroque entrance tower was built in 1744. The chateau is surrounded by an English landscape garden featuring a linden tree estimated to be 700–800 years old. Kamenice nad Lipou derives its name from the tree. In 1998, the chateau came under the management of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (UPM). Following extensive restoration work carried out between 1998 and 2004, permanent collections were installed on the ground floor of the Renaissance north wing, where the Museum also holds short-term exhibitions. The south wing of the chateau houses exhibition ...
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Bohemian-Moravian Highlands
The Bohemian-Moravian Highlands ( cs, Českomoravská vrchovina or ''Vysočina''; german: Böhmisch-Mährische Höhe) is a geomorphological macroregion and mountain range in the Czech Republic. Its highest peaks are the Javořice at and Devět skal in the north (). Location The Bohemian-Moravian Highlands are an extensive and long range of hills and low mountains over long, which runs in a northeasterly direction across the central part of the Czech Republic from Bohemia to Moravia. This range roughly coincides with modern Vysočina Region. Characteristics The highlands form a big region of rolling hills and low mountains with heights between about 500 and 800 metres, whose lowlands are relatively densely settled. Its gentle hills are dotted with small farmsteads and also occasionally with holiday apartments and houses. The softly, rounded summits offer beautiful and stunning panoramic views of the surrounding countryside, valleys and castles to hikers Hiking is a long, ...
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Jindřichův Hradec
Jindřichův Hradec (; german: Neuhaus) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 21,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. Administrative parts Town parts of Jindřichův Hradec I–V and villages of Buk, Děbolín, Dolní Radouň, Dolní Skrýchov, Horní Žďár, Matná, Otín, Políkno and Radouňka are administrative parts of Jindřichův Hradec. Geography Jindřichův Hradec is located about northeast of České Budějovice. It lies in the Křemešník Highlands, which is part of Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. The highest point is the hill Rýdův kopec at above sea level. The town is situated on the Nežárka river, on the shore of Vajgar pond, which is one of the symbols of the town. It is a large fish pond established in 1399. There is a significant amount of other fish ponds in the municipal territory. History The predecessor of today's town was a Slavic gord. Th ...
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Pelhřimov District
Pelhřimov District ( cs, okres Pelhřimov) is a district in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Pelhřimov. Administrative division Pelhřimov District is divided into three administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Pelhřimov, Humpolec and Pacov. List of municipalities Towns are marked in bold and market towns in ''italics'': Arneštovice - Bácovice - Bělá - Bohdalín - Bořetice - Bořetín - '' Božejov'' - Bratřice - Budíkov - Buřenice - Bystrá - Čáslavsko - Častrov - Čejov - Čelistná - Černov - Černovice - Červená Řečice - Cetoraz - Chýstovice - Chyšná - Čížkov - Dehtáře - Dobrá Voda - Dobrá Voda u Pacova - Dubovice - Důl - Eš - Hojanovice - Hojovice - Horní Cerekev - Horní Rápotice - Horní Ves - Hořepník - Hořice - Humpolec - Jankov - Ježov - Jiřice - Kaliště - Kámen - Kamenice nad Lipou - Kejžlice - Koberovice - Kojčice - Komor ...
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Museum Of Decorative Arts In Prague
Founded in 1885, the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts ( cz, Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum v Praze or UPM) is housed in a Neo-Renaissance edifice built from 1897 to 1899 after the designs of architect Josef Schulz. It opened in 1900 with exhibitions on the first floor. The Museum's rich collections include decorative and applied arts and design work ranging from Late Antiquity to the present day with focus on European objects, particularly arts and crafts created in the Bohemian lands. The impressive interior of the permanent exhibition, “Stories of Materials,” offers visitors an excursion into the history and development of decorative arts in the disciplines of glass, ceramics, graphic art, design, metal, wood and other materials, as well as objects such as jewellery, clocks and watches, textiles, fashion, toys and furniture. Mission The museum in Prague collects and preserves for future generations examples of historical and contemporary crafts as well as applied arts and ...
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Museum Of Textile In Česká Skalice
The textile museum in Česká Skalice is the only Czech museum specialized in the history of textile production. Its displays and collections represent a unique body of work reflecting the development of the textile industry, especially cloth printing, in the Czech Republic and abroad. The museum, a branch of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, holds regular exhibitions. Textile exhibitions *Cotton-production in Eastern Bohemia *Collaboration of artists with textile printing *History of textile production in the Czech lands until the end of the 18th century *History of textile printing and auxiliary technologies in manufactories and factories See also * The Chateau at Klášterec nad Ohří * Josef Sudek Gallery *The Chateau at Kamenice nad Lipou Kamenice nad Lipou ( cs, zámek v Kamenici nad Lipou) lies in the northwestern region of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, some twenty kilometres north of Jindřichův Hradec, in Pelhřimov District. The chateau acquired its pre ...
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Josef Sudek Gallery
The Josef Sudek Gallery ( cs, Galerie Josefa Sudka) is near Hradčany (Úvoz 24) in Prague, in a house where Josef Sudek (b. 1896 Kolín, d. 1976 Prague) lived from 1959 until his death. Part of his photographic output was transferred to the MDA in Prague in the years 1978–1988. Since 1989 the MDA in Prague has also administered his flat, where the gallery opened in 1995. Sudek had also a studio in Prague, Na Újezdu 28, which he continued to use for his photographic work (namely the darkroom) after moving to Hradčany, and where his sister and assistant Božena Sudková lived. Sudek's flat was a popular place for friendly gatherings of many artists, among them the poet Jaroslav Seifert, painter Jan Zrzavý, architect Otto Rothmayer and many others. In the flat, which was gradually filled with numerous paintings, frames, goblets, boxes and photographic tools, originated many now renowned compositions in the series Aviatic Remembrances, Easter Remembrances, Labyrinths and Gla ...
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The Chateau At Klášterec Nad Ohří
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Museums In The Vysočina Region
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 count ...
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Art Museums And Galleries In The Czech Republic
Art is a diverse range of human behavior, human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imagination, imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative arts, decorative or applied arts. ...
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Decorative Arts Museums
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with ugliness as its negative counterpart. Along with truth and goodness it is one of the transcendentals, which are often considered the three fundamental concepts of human understanding. One difficulty in understanding beauty is because it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be "in the eye of the beholder". It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the "sense of taste", can be trained and that the verdicts of experts ...
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Toy Museums
A toy museum is a museum for toys. They typically showcase toys from a particular culture or period with their history. These are distinct from children's museums, which are museums for children, and are often interactive – toy museums may be aimed at children or adults, and may have interactive exhibits or be exclusively for display. Notable toy museums The following lists only museums specializing in toys, whose collections are open for public viewing. Some museums such as the American Museum of Natural History have toys on display in their permanent collection, but are not full-fledged toy museums and as such are not listed here. Also, organizations. such as The Doll and Toy "Museum" of New York City that hold toy collections but are not open for public viewing are not listed here. Africa *Toy and Miniature Museum, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa Americas ;North Canada *National Toy Museum of Canada, Victoria, British Columbia USA *The National Farm Toy Mu ...
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