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 Engraving of the House of Sokols from Mor (beg. of the 18th cent.) |
Museum's history
The museum in Louny was found in 1889. With this date it falls to the first wave of establishing Czech museums, which is bordered by the years 1860-1890. It's collection fund was created in the same way as in a lot of other museums - by the gifts of the citizens. But we can talk about purposeful work on the extending of the collection fund very soon, mainly on the building of the achaeological collection.
The interest of the museum's research workers was aimed regionally practically from the beginning and it didn't stagnate only on the documenting of the town Louny. This development was finished in 1955, when the town museum turned to the District Museum.
Due to legal changes the Museum has been transferred under the patronage of the Regional Authority of the Usti Region with the validity from 1.1.2003. Therefore the Museum has changed its name again to District Museum in Louny, subsidized organization.
In present days the collecting area of the museum includes the area of the district of Louny. It is the landscape with very heterogeneous history and nature. The composition of its collections assigns the District Museum to the kind of homeland studying museums, without any specialisations. The collection funds (e.g. archaeological, historical, or naturalistic collection) are rich and they have high value for documenting.
The museum is suitably placed in the centre of the historical core in the buildings with monumental values, which were renovated for the purposes of the museum. One of these building is the House of Sokols from Mor. It's front is decorated by the late-gothic bay and in there is arched gothic room preserved in it's ground floor. The museum offers two permanent expositions with historical and naturalistic contents. The historical exposition is aimed on the history of north-west Bohemia in 14th and 15th century, the naturalistic exposition presents the development of the landscape in Podkrunohoří and middle Poohří (areas where the town of Louny is situated). The offer is complemented by the chain of short exhibitions during the year, which present individual collections of the museum and also the results of its research work. The palette of offered exhibitions is extended by graphic art exhibitions and exhibitions taken from other museums.
The open-air museum in Březno u Loun is part of the museum since 1994. It is unique set of reconstructions of prehistoric and early historic buildings, which were found in this locality during long systematic research by PhDr. I. Pleinerová Csc from the Archaeologic Institute in Prague.
The interest of the museum's research workers was aimed regionally practically from the beginning and it didn't stagnate only on the documenting of the town Louny. This development was finished in 1955, when the town museum turned to the District Museum.
Due to legal changes the Museum has been transferred under the patronage of the Regional Authority of the Usti Region with the validity from 1.1.2003. Therefore the Museum has changed its name again to District Museum in Louny, subsidized organization.
In present days the collecting area of the museum includes the area of the district of Louny. It is the landscape with very heterogeneous history and nature. The composition of its collections assigns the District Museum to the kind of homeland studying museums, without any specialisations. The collection funds (e.g. archaeological, historical, or naturalistic collection) are rich and they have high value for documenting.
The museum is suitably placed in the centre of the historical core in the buildings with monumental values, which were renovated for the purposes of the museum. One of these building is the House of Sokols from Mor. It's front is decorated by the late-gothic bay and in there is arched gothic room preserved in it's ground floor. The museum offers two permanent expositions with historical and naturalistic contents. The historical exposition is aimed on the history of north-west Bohemia in 14th and 15th century, the naturalistic exposition presents the development of the landscape in Podkrunohoří and middle Poohří (areas where the town of Louny is situated). The offer is complemented by the chain of short exhibitions during the year, which present individual collections of the museum and also the results of its research work. The palette of offered exhibitions is extended by graphic art exhibitions and exhibitions taken from other museums.
The open-air museum in Březno u Loun is part of the museum since 1994. It is unique set of reconstructions of prehistoric and early historic buildings, which were found in this locality during long systematic research by PhDr. I. Pleinerová Csc from the Archaeologic Institute in Prague.
