Hello / try out different ways of delivering a message, included in the price of the permanent exhibition ticket
A light installation reacting to the space of the gallery in interaction with the present viewer
Programme around the building
170 playful exhibits to help you learn how the world around you works.
Experience a storm, enter a giant heart, ride a bicycle on a tight rope, enshroud the city in thick fog, test the training of fighter pilots, or freeze your own shadow.
17:00/18:00/19:00/20:00/21:00/22:00
3D film from wild nature, included in the price of the permanent exhibition ticket, limited seating capacity
Programme inside the centre
Gregor Johann Mendel – The Story of the Modest Genius
Museum of the Abbey in Old Brno (MUSO)
17.00/18.30/20:00/21:30
a performance with explosive experiments
Programme around the building
The Museum Night offers new experience and knowledge, it is a night full of magic, when you can see the world with a child's eyes and try to do yourselves something that you have never... Come and see the exhibition of our club members' works, please yourself with a small present, participate in a miniworkshop and create your own original brooch or picture; get acquainted with the technique of enamelling and make your own unique magnet decoration. Our miniworkshops are open to all adults and children interested.
Journeys to Prehistory or In the Tracks of Zdeněk Burian
What is a Museum and Beyond … (90 years of the Museum of the Podhorácko Region)
Historical and modern tractors
guided tour of the building of the Governor’s Palace including the basement with Markéta Skotáková
guided tour with Jana Písaříková
The Story of the Romany People
Through deconstruction, we reveal the basic principles behind the multimedia mechanism of Laterna Magika, looking beyond the image/theater, beyond the compact illusion, and thus dismantling the carefully synchronized machine into its individual components. This is the only way to approach the foundations upon which Laterna Magika is built, to comprehend the essence of the multimedia performance, its possibilities and limits, to simulate a multisensory experience for the viewers and to address several issues which have emerged throughout the history of the experimental scene of the National Theater, such as: political representation, the institutional background, promotion, the memory of experimentation and the role of artists in the Normalization era. Deconstruction goes hand in hand with reintroduction, which constitutes a basis for the spatial solution of the individual installations while also being embedded in the new art projects which merge with the archival materials and show Laterna Magika as a medium or format with many potentialities.
Visit to a Doll’s House /an attractive exhibition of historical doll's houses from Art Nouveau to Barbie.Fresco Hall /the best preserved room in the heritage monument with original decoration.
More at www.letohradekbrno.cz
Guided tours every hour on the hour.
free tour
Lavutara – down the road with Romani musicians and their songs
inspiration by the architecture of the Governor’s Palace in collaboration with the Start-Art school
making of musical instruments and photo corner
Programme in the museum
Puppets of Blanka Šperková (guided tours of the exhibition with Mrs Alena Křížová).
ECHO / Selection from the Fait Gallery Collection
So far the most extensive selection from the Fait Gallery Collection is a confrontation of artists and approaches of Czech avant-garde and Czechoslovak art of the second half of the 20th century and their legacy in contemporary art. The exhibited artists work in collage, assemblage or installation or their approaches are based on reduction of form, additive principle of layering, composing different fragments, symbols and letters.
Visitors will learn hands-on about the thinking and creative principles of the exhibited artists.18.00, 20.00 and 22.00 / The creative duo Flowers in the Flat will introduce their KERA brand specialising in the making of ceramic flowerpots and accessories. Visitors will be able to take part in a paid workshop focusing on work with ceramic clay and to create their own vessel for a plant. If you are interested please reserve in advance at les@faitgallery.com.
Petr Veselý
Square Tower
Baroque Pharmacy from the Elizabethan Convent
Southern Terrace
observing the night sky with astronomical telescopes.
South-west Bastion
Labyrinth pod Zelným trhem
Price of happy hour (1000 CZK)
Entries: 18.00, 20.00 a 22.00 (the game needs to be bought in advance)
Dominikánské square
120% reduction from regular admission fee
Last entry at 23.15
In the historical basement you will discover the forgotten art of minting coins in Brno and Moravia as well as a permanent exhibition and an audiovisual presentation on the history and present of Brno.
During the almost hour-long tour visitors will pass through the backstage of Besední dům, listen to two short concerts and learn about new educational programmes for children and adults. The role of their guides will be taken by the management of the Brno Philharmonic: director, deputy director, art director, managers of the concert dept. and press officer. And this year for the first time Brno Philharmonic Volunteers.
The Story of the Modest Genius, permanent exhibition Museum of the Old Brno Abbey (MUSO) / individual tour
workshop for children, Mendel's Photo Corner
The Period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the 2nd Czechoslovak Resistance Movement (1938–45)
Guided tour of the exhibition with the curator on the hour.
Jakubské square
20% reduction from regular admission fee
Last entry at 23.30 (Entry every 30 minutes)
Tours of the underground chambers of the second largest ossuary in Europe with skeletal remains of more than 50 thousand deceased.
short excerpts from the performance of Just You Wait, Snail!
In relation to the exhibition dedicated to the memory of the sculptor Imrich Vanek, visitors will have a chance to take part in a public lesson in figurative sculpting – life modelling. You can engage yourself in the lesson at any moment of its duration. No age restrictions, experience not required.
Reservations at: janeckova@ticbrno.cz
Bar and refreshments Dvorek TIC.
H – Trio, music from the 1930s
Small fashion show of folk costumes
Playing the didgeridoo
Celtic dance performance by KVJ TišnovDance performance “Prehistory” by Inspiro Tišnov
Prehistoric crafts (pottery and weaving)Screening of the virtual tour of the Porta Coeli Convent
Festive illumination of the church portal
Beer from the reconstructed convent brewery
Wine and cider from the convent gardensSale of honey gingerbreadRefreshments
People and Money
The permanent exhibition called “People and Money” conceived in Brno in collaboration with the Moravian Museum is situated in the building of the former Mortgage Bank, today the seat of the Czech National Bank. It provides a rare insight into the history of the development of money and presents a complete overview of currency in the Czech lands with a special focus on the different characteristics of this phenomenon in Moravia. Visitors can see rare documents illuminating the history of the monetary policy, different means of payment and examples of the security features in the past and at present.Beauty in Glass and Metal
Beauty in Glass and Metal
The exhibition entitled “Beauty in Glass and Metal” presents the oeuvre of one of the most prominent artists who designed Czechoslovak and Czech coins, Jiří Harcuba (1928–2013), which he bequeathed to the Czech National Bank. Several dozen sculptures and glass exhibits document the life-long work of this world-renowned artist, glass designer, sculptor and engraver of medals, who designed the Czech five-crown coin among others.
Casemates
Prison of Nations
From a Castle to the Fortress
Brno at ŠpilberkVulcanalia
Branky Body Brno (part of the exhibition)
Main Stage
Historical toys from the collection of Milada Kollárová
Exhibition Mysterious Indonesia – Tam-tams of Time – New Guinea (reduced admission fee 50%)
Imrich Vanek ... When Ceramics Were Neither Cool Nor Trendy / Galerie U Dobrého pastýře
F5 – F0 / David Přílučík / Galerie mladých
Zlatý řez / Richard Loskot / Galerie Kontext
The Life and Works of Leoš Janáček
– a programme with music, wandering jugglers, organ grinders and fencers organised with financial support from the City of Brno and the South Moravian Region, marking the 270th anniversary of the death of the most famous Špilberk prisoner Baron Franz von der Trenck and other legendary Špilberk prisoners such as the highwayman Babinský or Italian Carbonaro Pellico.
The Great Courtyard
Follow the tracks of famous Špilberk prisoners! The Night Quiz will guide you through the famous and the unexpected corridors of Špilberk Castle.
Casemates
competitions and horse riding for children.
Western Courtine
Eastern Wing
Ogilvy Hall
tea specialities and traditional hookahs
Programme in front of the pavilion
Programme Mendelianum
guided tour of the exhibition with Olga Búci
a chance to browse through the latest and most interesting publications on art
Programme in front of the pavilion
In Hard Times 1918-1919
Carat Souls / newly opened exhibition presenting the multifarious forms of contemporary jewellery by more than twenty designers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Italy, China and Spain.
Programme Mendelianum
Enchanted by Africa
make an active graphic with your hands / Playroom
Programme in the pavilion
Hommage à Milan Kundera
guided tour with Táňa Šedová / library
Programme in front of the pavilion
puzzlehunt / work brochure available at the box office in the Pražák Palace
Commented display of military weapons accompanied by salvos from a three-pound Liechtenstein-type cannon
Commented display ofmilitary weapons accompanied by salvos froma three-pound Liechtenstein-type cannon
a trip to experience bureaucratic authority for parents with children
Programme in the pavilion
interactive art workshop with Florián Synák & comp.Programme in front of the pavilion
Programme in front of the pavilion
Programme Mendelianum
How They Got to Know Each Other: Moravian-Slovak relationships between 1848 and 1919
Traditional Folk Culture – showcase of the state – appreciated symbol of the nation
August 1968 as one of the anniversaries ending with the number 8
In Praise of Collecting: 200 years of service to Moravian culture and science
Karel Absolon – manager and moving spirit of grand visions
The Origins of Man and the Rise of Culture
Caution Bend Ahead! – cars from the period of realistic socialism, Historical Vehicles, Brno on Two Wheels, Optics, Computer Technology, Steam Engines, Water Engines, Aircraft Engines, Historical Stereovision, From Tam-tam to the Internet, Cutlery, Metal Casting, Ironmongery, Culture of the Blind, Crafts Lane, Mechanical Music Lounge, Tower Clockwork, Technological Playroom
guided tour with Petr Ingerle
The Vanished Life in Moravia
Moravian Prehistory
Great Moravia
Moravia in the Middle Ages
Central European Crossroad: Moravia in the 20th centuryThe World of Minerals
Fauna in Moravia
Aquarium of Freshwater Fishes
Mendelianum – The Enticing World of Genetics
Programme in front of the pavilion
The last opportunity to see the exhibition of one of the most prominent Christian artists
VDIFFThe VDIFF exhibition will present fourteen artists from the emerging generation embodying fourteen individualistic and confident approaches to the medium of painting. Vdiff (visual diff) is a term from the field of computer programming denoting a method of file control using visual comparison. Selected as a title it should evoke the fact that the exhibition shows paintings at a time when computers and digital technology have become everyday reality and hence strongly influence how and what we perceive visually. The aim is to create a spectacular environment within the framework of which the paintings will spill over into spatial installations and create mutual visual confrontations and incite discussion over the similarities and differences of the participating artists. Rather than a show presenting individual artists it is a gesamtkunstwerk, a shared installation of painters, male and female, filling up the landscape. Abstraction meets quite naturally figurativeness, expressiveness faces order, monochrome rendering clashes with a wild colour palette. Additional frequent elements include bricolage, multiplications, mass production as a reflection on the consumer society, pop culture, media reality, and the all-embracing digital universe represented mainly by the internet.
Rafał Żarski: Constant RenderingWith his exhibition Constant Rendering, Rafał Żarski invites us on a journey into his vision of the future. There is no more life on Earth in the real sense of the word, only perfect urban scenery and machines living their meta-lives. The machines don’t know where their progenitors came from, but they do know what their task is. They fill the world with visualisations of the future, and their day, without beginning or end, is structured only by individual tasks: rendering, printing and application of elements into an imaginary urban landscape. Rafał Żarski thus presents a seemingly absurd world, the foundations of which he finds in the way we work today and in urban planning. The absence of organic life then reflects, with a certain straightforwardness, the consequences of the global environmental crisis.Rafał Żarski (*1989) is a visual and multimedia artist. In 2016 he obtained his MA at the Photomedia Studio, the Szczecin Art Academy. He lives and works in Poznan, Poland. In 2018 he took part in the Brno Artists in Residence residency programme.
Scale the Death Wall – an exhibition about the history of the Czechoslovak Iron Curtain
An extraordinary collection of paintings, sculptures, reliefs and liturgical objects of great artistic value from the Brno diocese, the thematic composition of which follows the stories from the life of Jesus Christ. The permanent exhibition includes the rare Gothic panel painting of the Madonna of Veveří.
screening of the feature film about Vladimír Boudník after Bohumil Hrabal's novel of the same title / in the courtyard in collaboration with ART Cinema and PRAHA café
18:15/19:15/21:15
Programme in the museum
Commented fashion show from the end of the 18th to the mid-19th century
Performance with sabres
Dance of ladies with soldiers
Main Stage
18:45/21:45
Masaryk University's centenary celebrated by the Láska opravdivá male choir with a selection from male choral masterpieces by Leoš Janáček
Refreshments in the foyer of Besední dům
in the Steam Engines permanent exhibition
Programme Bishop’s Court
a puppet show by the DAMÚZA studio on motifs of old Jewish tales from Rudolphine Prague. For children from 6 years. Limited number of seats, please make a reservation at brno@jewishmuseum.cz. Show duration 40 minutes.
The Museum Night at the Strom Art Gallery on Saturday 18/5/2019 will bring you a party with musical interventions by Martin Dominik Kratochvíl and a series of guided tours with the artist and the exhibition curator.
Start at 19.00.
We are looking forward to see you!
guided tour of the building of the Governor’s Palace including the basement with Markéta Skotáková
Temporary exhibition
Bringing Together Divided Memory
sculptures, reliefs and liturgical objects ofgreat artistic value from the Brno diocese,the thematic composition of which followsthe stories from the life of Jesus Christ.
Programme in front of the museum
Main Stage
Intervention in permanent exhibition
Premiere of a new comic opera in one act by the young composer Jiří Najva with a libretto by the creative duo Rejža and Rejžička from Brno’s Divadlo2-15. The story is inspired by Špilberk Castle and its history as a prison, in particular by the “sojourn” of Baron Trenck.
Gothic Hall in the Small Courtyard
19:30/20:30/21:30
Masaryk University's centenary celebrated by the Láska opravdivá male choir with a selection from male choral masterpieces by Leoš Janáček
Intervention in permanent exhibition
in the Steam Engines permanent exhibition
Programme in front of the pavilion
sculptures, reliefs and liturgical objects ofgreat artistic value from the Brno diocese,the thematic composition of which followsthe stories from the life of Jesus Christ.
Commented display of military weapons accompanied by salvos from a three-pound Liechtenstein-type cannon
screening of ten short documentary experimental films mapping out the architecture of the communist era in the countries in Central and Eastern Europe
Royal Chapel
Main Stage
Programme in the museum
In the form of video-interviews it captures the stories of people who were forced to leave their homes as a result of war and had to start a new life elsewhere. Special attention is paid to the cohabitation of Jews, ethnic Czechs, Germans and Slovaks, bilingual Moravians and Böhmisch before 1938 and their different experiences after the forcible transfer. Excerpts from the interviews are classified both based on biographical passages and by keywords such as physical locations, historical events and repeating types of experience to clarify their relationship within the narrative. The exhibition is on loan from the movement against xenophobia Antikomplex z.s.
Commented fashion show from the end of the 18th to the mid-19th century
Performance with sabres
Dance of ladies with soldiers
Programme in front of the pavilion
White Paradise (Lamač, 1924, 70 min)
Tomáš Vtípil – electronics
Jana Vondrů – soprano
Vojtěch Procházka – piano
Lukáš Mik – violin
Eva Rohlender – violoncello
Lukáš Mik – violin
Jonáš Kucharský – drums
It Was the First of May (Červenková, 1919, 10 min)
Tomáš Vtípil – electronics
Afterparty (free): DJ Floex – DJ set of the awarded pioneer of electronic music in the Czech Republic (4 Anděl/Angel awards, most recently in 2018)
The event is held as part of the MUNIFESTO film festival marking the centenary of Masaryk University. Complete programme and tickets at www.munifesto.cz.
sculptures, reliefs and liturgical objects ofgreat artistic value from the Brno diocese,the thematic composition of which followsthe stories from the life of Jesus Christ.
Programme Bishop’s Court
in the Steam Engines permanent exhibition
The Brno ensemble Dust in the Groove, on the verge of jazz and contemporary music, freely interprets Janáček's piano cycle In the Mists with improvisation, sound variations and original groove.Žaneta Vítová – accordion, vocals, Jana Vondrů – vocals, Radim Hanousek – saxophones, bass clarinet, Jan Přibil – trumpet, Martin Opršál – marimba, Vlado Micenko – double-bass
Royal Chapel
Programme in front of the pavilion
Programme in front of the museum
Premiere of a new comic opera in one act by the young composer Jiří Najva with a libretto by the creative duo Rejža and Rejžička from Brno’s Divadlo2-15. The story is inspired by Špilberk Castle and its history as a prison, in particular by the “sojourn” of Baron Trenck.
Gothic Hall in the Small Courtyard
Programme in front of the pavilion
Commented display of military weapons accompanied by salvos from a three-pound Liechtenstein-type cannon
Royal Chapel
Commented fashion show from the end of the 18th to the mid-19th century
Performance with sabres
Dance of ladies with soldiers ooo
Main Stage
Main Stage