Podhorácké muzeum

About the museum

The Podhorácké Museum is housed in the grounds of the Cistercian monastery Porta coeli in Předklášteří near Tišnov, a national cultural monument. It is today the only functioning Cistercian monastery in Moravia and the only female Cistercian monastery in the Czech Republic. The complex has an early Gothic core, to which Gothic, Renaissance and especially Baroque additions were made. The museum is in the former provostry building and has been based there since 1955; today it is a branch of the Muzeum Brněnska (Brno Region Museum).

Visitors enter through a Baroque gate and along a lime-tree avenue to the main courtyard, with the richly decorated Gothic portal of the monastery church. The church can be visited on guided tours at hourly intervals.

Four permanent exhibitions can be visited separately: the newly designed exhibition on the history and present of the Porta coeli monastery; a middle-class living interior from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, with stories of Tišnov families; a mineralogical and palaeontological exhibition in the corridor of the upper floor; and the regional exhibition Minerals of the Tišnov Region, which is temporarily closed. The museum also holds seasonal exhibitions and educational programmes for schools.

Highlights

• The exhibition “Dějiny a současnost kláštera Porta coeli” (“History and Present of the Porta coeli Monastery”), with a video presentation of the Gothic spaces
• Middle-class living interior from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Mineralogical system and palaeontology in period display cases
• Guided tours of the monastery church
• The grounds of the only functioning Cistercian monastery in Moravia

Permanent exhibitions

• Dějiny a současnost kláštera Porta coeli – Historical exhibition on the ground floor about the only functioning Cistercian monastery in Moravia and the only female Cistercian monastery in the Czech Republic; new visual design from 2021.
• Měšťanský obytný interiér z přelomu 19. a 20. století – Restored exhibition, reopened in May 2025, which uses a middle-class interior to tell the story of a 19th-century family and shows cabinet photographs of residents of the Tišnov Region.
• Mineralogický systém a paleontologie – The exhibition along the whole length of the upper-floor corridor begins with palaeontology, for example trilobites and Palaeozoic fish, and continues with a mineralogical system.

Operated by

Muzeum Brněnska, příspěvková organizace

Admission & discounts

The museum is a partner in the IDS JMK discount scheme: 50% off the basic admission price on presentation of a valid annual season ticket, and 10% off on presentation of another valid season ticket. The discounts also apply to holders of the Family Pass, Senior Pass and MojaKarta, and cannot be combined.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

In its educational work the museum has long focused especially on pre-school and younger primary school children; programmes for schools follow the current exhibitions and the grounds of the monastery.

Getting there & parking

By car from Brno along road 385 or motorway D1, exit 162 Velká Bíteš.

Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

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