Technical Museum in Brno
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The Technical Museum in Brno (Czech Technické muzeum v Brně , TMB) is a state museum in the Czech Republic . It is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and has its seat in the Moravian city of Brno .
history
The Kaiser Franz Museum was founded in Brno in 1817 . It increasingly focused on exhibits from the natural and social sciences.
As the history of technology has been increasingly excluded from the collection activity in 1873 in the Moravian industrial city of the founding of the Moravian Industrial Museum . In 1895 a technology department was established, which included a permanent exhibition of tools, machines and constructions. At the beginning of the 20th century, this museum increasingly focused on handicrafts. It finally ceased its industrial history collection activities and changed its concept to the Moravian Gallery .
In 1924, on the initiative of the Brno section of the Czechoslovak Engineers Association, a preparatory committee for the establishment of a technical museum in Moravia was established. The committee then developed the concept of a Technological Museum for Moravia and Silesia as a counterpart to the Technical Museum in Prague . Negotiations with the Prague Museum, which was trying to maintain its monopoly position, continued without concrete results until the 1930s. In 1936 the archive pro dějiny průmyslu, obchodu a technické práce (archive for industrial and commercial history and technical work) was founded in Brno . The construction of this direct predecessor of the museum came to a standstill with the outbreak of the Second World War.
In 1948, on the initiative of the Moravian National Committee and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the archive pro dějiny průmyslu, obchodu a technické práce was revived . The association initially moved into temporary rooms in the Kunstgewerbemuseum. In 1950 the archive moved to the premises of the former Ursuline monastery on the corner of Orlí / Josefská in the center of Brno. At the beginning of 1951 the association was forcibly dissolved. His collection was nationalized and attached to the National Technical Museum in Prague as a branch. The branch was converted into a study and documentation department at the end of 1952 and was thus able to start its own systematic collection activity. After the monastery building was transferred to Náboženská matice for use as a museum in 1956 , a gradual renovation of the dilapidated baroque building began.
On January 1, 1961, the museum was spun off from the National Technical Museum in Prague and an independent Technical Museum was founded in Brno ( Technické muzeum v Brně ). As a result of the 1991 Law on the Return of Church Property, the museum's headquarters were returned to the Ursuline Order. The museum was given a lease that ran until 2001. Due to restitution, after the Velvet Revolution, the museum also had to vacate two buildings in Rousínov that were used as warehouses and the houses on Josefská and Novobranská streets in Brno with a usable area of 20796 m². Between 1995 and 1996, the museum had to give up its exhibition rooms in the Ursuline Convent due to structural defects and moved to the Královo Pole district .
After the renovation of the new headquarters, the museum was reopened in 1997.
Branch offices
Branch offices of the museum are:
- Site of the Czechoslovak Wall in Šatov ( Areál československého opevnění Šatov )
- Collection of public transport vehicles in Brno-Líšeň ( Sbírka vozidel MHD ) with a depot of trackless vehicles in Řečkovice
- Exhibition of blacksmith and wagner's craft in the old forge in Těšany
- Ironworks Huť Františka near Adamov ( Stará huť u Adamova )
- Hammer mill Šlakhamry in Hamry nad Sázavou
- Windmill in Kuželov
- Watermill Sloop
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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 41.4 " N , 16 ° 34 ′ 53.2" E