Muzeum břidlice

About the museum

The Muzeum břidlice (Slate Museum) was founded in 1996 in a reconstructed Baroque water mill from the first half of the 18th century in Budišov nad Budišovkou. The building is protected as a cultural monument, and the museum’s focus on slate makes it one of the few of its kind in the country. It is run by the Středisko volného času Budišov nad Budišovkou (leisure centre).

In 2013 the museum underwent a fundamental reconstruction, during which new information panels were added and the lower floor was opened to the public, with an exhibition on the use of slate in everyday life. In 2015 the museum presented itself in a new form with four exhibitions.

The exhibition explains the formation of slate in the Nízký Jeseník, its mining and processing, and shows the miners’ tools and products ranging from roofing to school slate boards and writing slates, as well as slate clocks; it also introduces fossils. A separate exhibition is devoted to the mining of silver and lead in the Budišov area, another to industry in the 20th century, and the last follows the history of the town from the 13th century. A short documentary shows visitors mining in a deep mine.

In the museum garden there is a small geological park with a bat adit, slate heaps, examples of fossils and a splitting shed, where visitors can try splitting slate.

Highlights

• Exhibition on the formation, mining and processing of slate in the Nízký Jeseník
• Slate clocks, school slate boards, writing slates and other slate products
• Fossils of plants and animals imprinted in slate slabs
• Short documentary on mining in a deep mine
• Garden geological park with a bat adit and a splitting shed where visitors can try the work

Permanent exhibitions

• Dobývání břidlice v Nízkém Jeseníku – The exhibition explains the formation of slate and the development of its mining, from surface quarries to deep mines, and shows tools and products.
• Stříbrná expozice – An explanation of silver and lead mining in the Budišov area and of legends about the origin of the town.
• Břidlicový průmysl ve 20. století – The exhibition follows the rise and fall of the industry in the 20th century through the story of the entrepreneur Jan Řihák.

Founded

1996

Operated by

Středisko volného času Budišov nad Budišovkou, příspěvková organizace

Admission & discounts

The standard admission applies from the age of 15.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

• Hands-on stations

In the garden there is a splitting shed where children and adults can try working with slate.

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