Vysoké Mýto Regional Museum () covers history of the area around the town

Vysoké Mýto Vysoké Mýto (; , also ''Hohenmauth'') is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. Its town square is the largest example of its type in the country. The historic town ...

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History

In 1871, a town councilor began a collection of coins and paintings, gifts from local citizens, and put them in a room in the town hall for public viewing. Initial interest in the collection faded, but six years later a young architect, Josef Škorpil, re-initiated the project. Volunteers gathered antiquities from the area and exhibited them locally and country wide. In 1912, the collections were moved into a house bought by the museum. During reorganisation in 1960, the museum was transformed into an official county museum. It was professionalized, expanded, and its collections underwent expert processing. Later, the museum expanded into two other historical houses.

Exhibitions and activities

The main building of the museum hosts most of the exhibitions, including an archeological and artistic-industrial collection, a collection of citizens' portraits, and sections on ethnography and history of craft and guilds. The Prague Gate (''Pražská brána''), a remainder of the city fortification from the 14th century, hosts the permanent exhibition of pictures documenting changes in Vysoké Mýto since the first half of 19th century. The

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areal Vraclav (about 6 km from the Vysoké Mýto, in the village of

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) includes St. Nicholas' Church, a spa and a hermitage. The areal hosts an exhibition about the history of the community. In the church there is a collection of wooden polychromed Baroque plastics, created around 1740. Among the available collections (80 thousand collection items totally) are: a numismatic collection; a collection of old printings;

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literature; textiles, glass, and ceramics; graphics, iconographics, and photography collections. The museum also owns a historical car " Aero 50 Dynamik", one of the seven luxury cars produced in Vysoké Mýto in 1939–1941. The museum participates in cultural life of the town by organizing lectures, balls and concerts. The main building is open year except Mondays; the two other locations are open from May to September.

References

External links

Museum website
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