Oblastní muzeum v Děčíně

Over het museum

The Děčín museum has its roots at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A first attempt to found a museum in 1892 soon came to nothing for lack of public interest, but private collectors continued to gather collections. In 1908 the pharmacist Franz Just persuaded the town council to buy the private collections, and a municipal museum was established. After the Second World War the collections of the Děčín and Podmokly museums were merged in 1945, and in 1946 the museum reopened to the public.

In 1953 the museum moved to the former hunting lodge of the Thun-Hohenstein family, which had previously been used by the forestry administration, and in April 1955 it opened a new building there. From 1962 it was called the District Museum in Děčín; in the 1960s it took over the collections of the closed museums in Česká Kamenice, Benešov nad Ploučnicí and Šluknov. In 1969 an exhibition on navigation on the Elbe was opened, and the museum became the only one in the country focused on the history of shipping on the Elbe.

In the second half of the 1970s the museum took over branches in Rumburk and Varnsdorf. After 1989 a permanent exhibition of Gothic sculpture was created, and since 2002 the museum has been a contributory organisation of the Ústí Region, its founder.

Hoogtepunten

• exhibition on the development of shipping on the Elbe, with a wheelhouse and a projection
• historic diving suit
• Town in the Meadow – archaeological finds from Děčín’s first town
• Gothic art of the Děčín region and the Šluknov depot
• building of the former hunting lodge of the Thun-Hohenstein family

Vaste collectie

• Město na louce – Archaeological finds from the first town of Děčín on Mariánská louka show how people lived in Děčín in the 13th and 14th centuries.
• Gotické umění na Děčínsku – The exhibition presents the most important surviving sculptures of the Děčín region and the Šluknov depot.
• Vývoj lodní dopravy na Labi – The exhibition shows which ships sailed on the Elbe and what they carried; in the wheelhouse with a projection, visitors can try steering a cargo ship and look at a historic diving suit.

Opgericht

1908

Beheerder

Ústecký kraj (příspěvková organizace)

Directie

Ing. Vlastimil Pažourek

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Card payment is not possible. Free admission is also granted to supervising teachers and members of the Asociace muzeí a galerií (Association of Museums and Galleries), KPPH and KPMV. Prices may differ for some temporary exhibitions.

Toegankelijkheid

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Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Doe- en voelstations

Children can try steering a cargo ship in the wheelhouse of the exhibition on Elbe navigation and walk along the ship’s gangway; playful programmes are also prepared for schools and groups.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

Service & horeca

The museum runs an online shop selling publications.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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