Muzeum tradičního bydlení a perleťářství
A village museum in a thatched farmstead in Senetářov, showing traditional housing, the production of mother-of-pearl buttons and brickmaking.
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About the museum
The museum is set up in a typical farmstead of Central Moravia. The building of unfired (adobe) bricks has a two-sided, hook-shaped layout around the yard and a hipped roof covered with thatch. The traditional arrangement of the house consists of a jizba (main room), a síň (entrance hall) and a komora (storeroom). The house was later extended by a světnice (living room) and another storeroom. The kitchen and the living room served for living and sleeping, and the storerooms for keeping crops and tools.
Farming conditions in the Moravian Karst were not very favourable, so local people already in the 19th century made their living in other ways too. In Senetářov, besides the making of hairpins and net curtains, the working of mother-of-pearl spread. It was brought by the Viennese entrepreneur Alfons Tománek, who founded a factory for mother-of-pearl buttons here in the 1880s. Alongside it a number of small workshops arose, and buttons were also made at home. After the First World War and during the economic crisis, production declined and eventually switched to plastic buttons, which were made here until the early 1980s.
In the museum, the production of mother-of-pearl buttons is shown step by step. There are living rooms with period furnishings, storerooms with agricultural tools and an outdoor exhibition of agricultural machinery. A separate exhibition presents brickmaking with old stamped bricks. In the garden stands a working brick oven, in which cakes, bread or potato pancakes are prepared during the spring festivals.
Highlights
- Thatched farmstead built of unfired bricks
- Display showing the production of mother-of-pearl buttons
- Living rooms with period furnishings
- Brickmaking exhibition with old stamped bricks
- Outdoor exhibition of agricultural machinery
- Brick oven in the garden
Permanent exhibitions
- Tradiční bydlení na střední Moravě – The kitchen and living room with period furnishings, storerooms with agricultural tools, and an outdoor exhibition of agricultural machinery.
- Perleťářství v Senetářově – The display in the former stable shows step by step how mother-of-pearl buttons are made, from obtaining the mother-of-pearl to the finished product.
- Cihlářství – Dozens of old stamped bricks in various colours and shapes, brick production in brickworks, and the main types of historical brick marks.
- Operated by
- Obec Senetářov
Admission & discounts
| Adults | 40 Kč |
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| Reduced | 20 Kčchildren and seniors |
| Children & teens | 20 Kč |
| Seniors | 20 Kč |
| Families | 100 KčThe family ticket applies to 2 adults and up to 3 children. |
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Tours outside the summer opening hours and group bookings are arranged by telephone on +420 739 407 244 or +420 516 442 424, or by email. At the annual spring festivals, products from the brick oven can be tasted. |
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