Krajské technické muzeum

Om museet

The museum in Vysoké Mýto was founded in 1871, when the town, on the proposal of the miller and chronicler Karlouš Richtr, set up a room in the town hall for collections and for the stored municipal archive. According to its own statement, it is the oldest institution of its kind in Bohemia. After a decline in the 1870s, activity was revived by a museum committee; the collections moved between several buildings, and from 1907 the museum used the house of the Šember family. It was ceremonially opened there on 3 May 1914, and it is still housed there today.

From 1960 it operated as a district museum and gradually expanded into two neighbouring burgher houses. In 2003 it received regional status, and the Pardubice Region became its founder. A restoration workshop, an archaeological department and a documentation department were added.

In 2026 the museum was given the name Krajské technické muzeum (Regional Technical Museum) and moved its main seat to the former agricultural school building on Kpt. Poplera Street. The new permanent exhibitions present the technical heritage and industrial traditions of the Pardubice Region, for example cycling, coachbuilding or aviation, and are complemented by open storage rooms, workshops and spaces for education. The Šember House remains the property of the museum and is used for short-term exhibitions, lectures and the exhibition Vysoké Mýto světové (Vysoké Mýto of the World). The library, the reading room and the archaeological and conservation department also continue to operate.

Højdepunkter

• Exhibition Jednou stopou (Single Track) on the development of cycling, including a velocipede trainer
• Exhibition Kabát pro auta (Coat for Cars) on the coachbuilding firm Sodomka and the luxury car Aero 50 Dynamik
• Exhibition Létáme v tom spolu (We Fly Together) on the beginnings of aviation in the region
• Eight permanent exhibitions on the technology and industrial traditions of the region
• Open storage rooms, hall and workshops

Permanente udstillinger

• Jednou stopou – The exhibition traces the development of cycling from its beginnings to the present. It shows old and newer bicycles and their components, and the firms that made bicycles in the Pardubice Region; visitors can try out a velocipede trainer.
• Kabát pro auta – The exhibition explains how car bodies were made, from design to finished product, and the history of the Vysoké Mýto coachbuilding firm Sodomka. The main exhibit is the luxury car Aero 50 Dynamik.
• Létáme v tom spolu – The exhibition traces the beginnings of aviation in the Czech lands and in the region, explains the physical principles of flight, and shows local aircraft production and how the airfield works.

Grundlagt

1871

Ejer

Pardubický kraj (zřizovatel)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Gratis entré: Pupils and students (individual visitors) enter free every Thursday.

Prices valid from 19 April 2026. Free admission also for children under 6, members of AMG, and employees and councillors of the Pardubice Region with the relevant card. Families in the Rodinné pasy (Family Passes) project receive free admission for one child.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig: ingen oplysninger
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Step-free entry to the museum is possible. Step-free access to the ground floor of the Šember House is provided by ramps, on request at the ticket office.

Børn og familie

The family admission applies to 2 adults and 3 children aged 6–18; children under 6 enter free. Pupils and students enter free every Thursday.

Transport & parkering

Service & spisesteder

The website also mentions a museum shop, but no further details about it are available.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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