Muzeum izolátorů a bleskojistek

About the museum

The museum grew out of the private collection of František Daněk. He began it as a child, when he found his first insulators in a stream. More were added over time: in 1977 the collection held about 400 pieces, and two years later 520 insulators and 120 lightning arresters. After 1989 the collector travelled abroad, visiting manufacturers, users and other collectors, and the collection grew rapidly.

The collection is housed in a mill in Dvořiště, which belonged to the collector’s parents and was confiscated from them during collectivisation. František Daněk bought it back from the agricultural cooperative in 1986 and immediately began converting it into a museum. The museum was officially founded in 2001. The Ministry of Culture protects the collection, and according to available sources it is the largest collection of its kind in Europe.

The exhibition includes insulators made of porcelain, glass, plastics, rubber and wood, historical switchboards by František Křižík, and a collection of lightning rod heads. Some of the exhibits stand outdoors in the garden as the “forest of insulators”.

Highlights

• Thousands of insulators made of porcelain, glass, plastic, rubber and wood
• Hundreds of lightning arresters and lightning rod heads
• Giant insulator weighing 1,200 kg
• Wire insulator that guarded prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp
• Historical switchboards by František Křižík
• Exhibits from the USA, Australia, China, Brazil, Russia and Canada

Permanent exhibition

• Sbírka izolátorů a bleskojistek – Europe’s largest collection of insulators, from pieces a few centimetres long to giant exhibits weighing 1,200 kg, complemented by lightning arresters, switchboards and lightning rod heads.

Founded

2001

Operated by

František Daněk (soukromá sbírka)

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Admission is voluntary.

Accessibility

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Getting there & parking

The museum is in the hamlet of Dvořiště, about two kilometres east of Obrataň, halfway between Tábor and Pelhřimov.

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