The Museum of Ústí nad Labem
The museum is situated in the city centre, in the area between Lidice Square and Smetana orchards. Among the biggest collections are natural collections, which have been formed since the end of the 19th century. They contain numerous significant aggregates documenting mainly the nature of Norh-Western Bohemia, Central Bohemian Highlands and the Ore Mountains. Thousands of geological specimens of minerals, rocks and paleontological evidence can be found there. You also won’t miss a botanical herbarium or a particularly large number of entomological collections. Another attraction are the zoological collections with a wide range of interesting specimens, as well.
In connection with construction works in the historical part of Ústí nad Labem, archeological collections have become quite extensive, as well. The historical collections contain e.g. tens of thousands of photographs, negatives, diapositives or postcards.
Inside the museum, you can also find army collections, which are exceptional for e.g. a collection of weapons and army material from the period around the year 1813, when the Battle of Chlumec took place. Owing to the industrial nature of the region, there are numerous technical collections, as well. Fine arts and crafts are being represented by e.g. historical furniture, glass, an aggregate of late gothic wooden carvings or landscape art from the 19th and 20th century. The Museum of Ústí nad Labem, thanks to both the large number and the quality of the collections, belongs to the most important regional museum institutions of Czechia.
“Our Germans” permanent exposition
The new permanent exposition presents, in a total of 22 exposition halls, the history of the German-speaking folk of Czechia from Early Middle Ages to the 20th century. Visitors can find there a room dedicated to Charles IV.’s influence, the reformation efforts of the Czechs and the Germans, modernisation reforms by Joseph II. or to the sovereigns of the Habsburg dynasty on the Czech throne.
Visitors are thrown right into the middle of the baroque procession against John of Nepomuk, onto the barricade in the revolutionary year of 1848, they peek into the city salon from the Biedermeier times, they visit the Bohemian Diet shaken by arguments between the Czechs and the Polish, they overhear a conversation among some regulars at the pub in Loket Upon Ohře and in a Prague café, they see projections of family movies in a functionalist villa, and finally, they can play table football with ten different German football teams.
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