Orlické Mountains and Podorlicko - Museums, galleries, and open-air museums

Museums, galleries, and open-air museums

• Častolovice - chateau 
  The history of Častolovice Chateau extends back to the 13th century when a water fortress stood in the valley of the confluence of the Bělá and Kněžna Rivers. This fortress was built on massive wooden pillars in the middle of the water. The structure was reconstructed as a Renaissance chateau at the turn of the 17th century. In addition to a farmbuildings, brewery, distillery, and wash houses the grounds also included orchards, fish ponds, and a mill with a 1 km long millrace. In the year 1694 the...
  Telephone: 494323646
  Address: Masarykova 1, 517 50, Častolovice
  
• Choceň - Orlické Museum (Choceň - Orlické muzeum) 
  The Renaissance chateau with ground floor arcade in the courtyard was built in the second half of the 16th century. In 1829 the chateau burned and restorations were conducted in the Classicist style. In 1849-1850 the east wing of the chateau was reconstructed into the pseudo-Gothic Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which forms the entrance area to the chateau.
  Telephone: 465471624
  Address: Pardubická 1, 565 01, Choceň
  
• Coffee roast (Pražírna kávy) - roaster and mini-museum 
  
  Telephone: 494381336, 602405593
  Address: Jiráskova 555, 517 24, Borohrádek
  
• Dobruška - town hall 
  The most famous building in the city from the 16th century. The capital court was housed here until 1765, then the municipal government. The town hall survived two large fires in the 19th century. The building includes a 45 m high tower, which offers a spectacular view from its walkway of the Orlicky Mountains and Podorlicko, and all the way to Krkonoš in favourable weather.
  Telephone: 494629668
  Address: náměstí F.L. Věka 1, 518 01, Dobruška
  
• Dolní Čermná Town Museum (Muzeum obce Dolní Čermná) 
  
  Telephone: 465393126, 465393174
  Address: 561 53 , Dolní Čermná
  
• Exhibition hall (Výstavní síň) 
  
  Telephone: 465586015
  Address: Ústecká 235, 561 17, Dlouhá Třebová
  
• Fire brigade (Hasičská zbrojnice) 
  The fire station was built in 1880 and served the fire brigade until 1980. Today it serves as a fire brigade.
  Address: č.p. 91, 563 01, Horní Třešňovec
  
• Fire Brigade Museum (Hasičské muzeum) 
  
  Telephone: 603309331
  Address: Vrbí 257, 564 01, Žamberk
  
• Home of Prokop Diviš (Domek Prokopa Diviše) 
  
  Telephone: 608427064, 776123452, 775709008
  Address: Žamberk 326, 564 01, Žamberk
  
• Ivko Gallery (Galerie Ivko) 
  
  Telephone: 723108101
  Address: Komenského 227, 56151, Letohrad
  
• Jan Amos Komenský Memorial Hall (Pamětní síň Jana Amose Komenského) 
  
  Telephone: 465544211
  Address: Náměstí Komenského 203, 561 12, Brandýs nad Orlicí
  
• Kolowrat Chateau in Rychnov nad Kněžnou (Kolowratský zámek v Rychnově nad Kněžnou) 
  The Early Baroque multi-story chateau was built by Fr. Karel Kolowrat in 1676-1690 (allegedly according to the plan by a northern Italian architect) In 1722 the chateau was lengthened, widened, and raised, likely according to the design by Jan Santini Aichel. The main chateau façade is elaborated to an unusual width.
  Telephone: 494535894, 494534450
  Address: Zámek 1, 516 01, Rychnov nad Kněžnou
  
• Lanškroun - chateau and town museum 
  The oldest part of the Lanškroun Chateau is the wing adjacent to the Church of St. Wenceslas. This was the eastern wing of the monastery, built by the Augustinians after 1393. The structure was named a chateau as early as 1507, when it was acquired by the Pernštein family. The building underwent numerous reconstructions over the subsequent centuries, and these substantially changed the chateau’s appearance. A ceremony hall is now located in the newly altered Gothic spaces of the chateau’s west wing...
  Telephone: 465324328
  Address: nám. A. Jiráska, Zámek 1, 56301, Lanškroun
  
• Letohrad Craft Museum (Muzeum řemesel Letohrad) 
  The Museum is located on the premises of Novy Dvur dating back to 1750. The 1650 m2 area is the largest museum of its type in the CR. It includes more than 50 complete expositions on handicrafts and trades from the period of 1840-1930. In addition to relatively known professions, such as a joiner or carver, it presents work by metal pressers, wheelers, coopers, shingle maker, and many others. Among interesting expositions are mechanical workshops, sawmills with three functioning cutters and other...
  Telephone: 465622160
  Address: Nový dvůr 143, 561 51, Letohrad
  
• Martina Breklová's Marionette Pimprláterium (Loutkové Pimprláterium Martiny Breklové) 
  
  Telephone: 777217003
  Address: Frošova 1058, 51741, Kostelec nad Orlicí
  
• Max Švabinský's cottage (Chaloupka Maxe Švabinského) - museum 
  The cottage is named after the famous Czech painter Max Švabinský, who stayed here in the years 1895-1919. The beautiful mountain landscape inpsired the artist, and his most famous works were created in Kozlov. The gable of the cottage is adorned with his painting "Saint Wenceslas."
  Telephone: 465534516
  Address: Kozlov č.p. 50, 560 02, Česká Třebová
  
• Memorial to Jarmila Haldová and district of Sedloňov (Památník Jarmily Haldové a obce Sedloňov) 
  
  Telephone: 494660345
  Address: Sedloňov 155, 51791, Sedloňov
  
• Memorial to Karel Plachetka (Památník Karla Plachetky) 
  
  Telephone: 494534450
  Address: Jiráskova 2, 516 01, Rychnov nad Kněžnou
  
• Memorial to Marie and Vojtěch Sedláček (Památník Marie a Vojtěcha Sedláčkových) 
  
  Telephone: 494545172, 732650634, 736134693
  Address: Javornice 37, 51711, Javornice
  
• Municipal museum Letohrad (Městské muzeum Letohrad) 
  
  Telephone: 465622092
  Address: Václavské nám. 77, 56151, Letohrad
  
• Municipal museum (Městské muzeum) 
  
  Telephone: 465523653
  Address: 17. listopadu 72, 562 01, Ústí nad Orlicí
  
• Municipal museum (Městské muzeum) 
  
  Telephone: 465611678
  Address: Československé armády 472, 564 01, Žamberk
  
• Municipal museum (Městské muzeum) 
  
  Telephone: 465534516
  Address: Klácelova 80, 560 02, Česká Třebová
  
• Municipal museum of Dobruška (Městské muzeum Dobruška) 
  
  Telephone: 494629668
  Address: Šubertovo nám. 45, 518 01, Dobruška
  
• Museum of hiking, winter sports and crafts (Muzeum turistiky, zimních sportů a řemesel) 
  
  Telephone: 494663139, 602936946
  Address: č.p. 133, 517 91, Deštné v Orlických horách
  
• Museum of the Doudleby - Vamberk - Rokytnice Track (Muzeum dráhy Doudleby - Vamberk - Rokytnice) 
  
  Telephone: 494595326
  Address: 517 61, Rokytnice v Orlických horách
  
• Na Sboru Home (Domek Na Sboru) 
  One of the historic founding sites of the Brethren of Unity in 1457.
  Telephone: 465619160, 605711889
  Address: Kunvald 40, 561 81, Kunvald
  
• Na zídce Gallery (Galerie Na zídce) 
  
  Telephone: 604103895
  Address: Komenského, 561 51, Letohrad
  
• Permanent exposition of town history (Stálá expozice dějin města) 
  
  Telephone: 465641371
  Address: nám. 5. května 30, 56164, Jablonné nad Orlicí
  
• Picture gallery in Slatina nad Zdobnicí (Obrazárna ve Slatině nad Zdobnicí) 
  
  Telephone: 494595820
  Address: Slatina nad Zdobnicí 39, 517 56, Slatina nad Zdobnicí
  
• Pod Radnicí Gallery (Galerie pod Radnicí) 
  Address: Sychrova, 562 01, Ústí nad Orlicí
  
• Rychnov nad Kněžnou - Jewish synagogue - memorial to Karel Poláček 
  The synagogue was built in 1781 – 82 and in 1830 was adapted in a Classicist style. Today it is used for museum exhibitions.
  Telephone: 494533173, 494534450
  Address: Palackého ul. 608, 516 01, Rychnov nad Kněžnou
  
• The artillery stronghold of Bouda (Dělostřelecká tvrz Bouda) 
  Building from 1935-1938 is the most preserved building of its kind in the Czech Republic. It comprises of five battle buildings of the highest degree of resistence (walls and ceiling panels are 350 cm thick) and an extensive system of underground corridors and a room deep in the rock (ca. 1.5 km long). A monument is situated in the war barracks in the underground fortress, with a complete list of casualties and those murdered by the border guards in the autumn of 1938 to the spring of 1939.
  Telephone: 777647114
  Address: Těchonín
  
• The family house of František Vladislav Hek (Rodný domek Františka Vladislava Heka) 
  The native house of the most popular Dobruš personality, the national revivalist František Vladislav Hek, who was immortalised in the novel "F.L. Věk" by Alois Jirásek.
  Telephone: 494629667, 725048991
  Address: Novoměstská 185, 518 01, Dobruška
  
• The Museum of Needlework in Vamberk (Muzeum krajky Vamberk) 
  
  Telephone: 494541518
  Address: Vilímkova 88, 517 54, Vamberk
  
• Toy museum (Muzeum hraček) 
  
  Telephone: 603193122, 732781228
  Address: Staré náměstí 68, 516 01, Rychnov nad Kněžnou
  
• Utzův mechanical nativity scene (Utzův mechanický betlém) 
  
  Telephone: 494660226
  Address: 51783, Olešnice v Orlických horách 8
  
• V. J. Klofáč Mememorial (Památník V. J. Klofáče) 
  A memorial is situated in the “Na Valech” fortress, which is a cultural monument composed of House No. 68 (gamekeepers lodge), House No. 93 (Klofáč Villa), ramparts, the moat, cellars, and the arbour. The V. J. Klofáč Memorial is located in the House No. 68, the gamekeepers lodge. It was opened to the public on 20 September 1997. The memorial commemorates the 100th anniversary of the party that V. J. Klofáč founded in 1897, as well as the ideas that helped the Czech nation gain independence and democracy...
  Telephone: 465481294, 604863787
  Address: Dobříkov
  
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