During European Heritage Days, 1,800 people visited the museum

15 Sep 2025

Visitors had their last chance to see Milan Dobeš's exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art during European Heritage Days. Photo: MUO – Tereza Hrubá

The European Heritage Days weekend saw high visitor numbers at the Olomouc Museum of Art. Guided tours of the exhibitions and CENTRAL, creative worksheets for children, and of course free admission attracted 1,058 visitors to the Archdiocesan Museum and another 742 to the Museum of Modern Art.

Visitors were not deterred by the inclement weather over the weekend. For example, forty people attended Saturday’s guided tour of CENTRAL, and other interested parties got up early on Sunday so that they could visit the normally inaccessible backstage area of the museum’s multifunctional stage at 10 a.m. with Alexander Jeništa, head of the production department.

Guided tours Music in the Archdiocese of Olomouc was offered by curator Kateřina Fajtlová at the Archdiocesan Museum. In the permanent exhibition Here You Are, which maps the historical development of St. Wenceslas Hill, Miroslav Kindl gave two guided tours on Saturday and two on Sunday, always at 12 noon and 5 p.m. “A lot of people came, although noon was always a little busier. In general, I was pleased that people were very interested and asked a lot of questions,” said exhibition curator Miroslav Kindl. “Children in particular were drawn to the screens with a playful virtual tour of the local hill, where it is possible to travel back in time to prehistory, the Middle Ages, or the early modern period.”

The Museum of Modern Art attracted visitors with exhibitions by Dviženije with Julie Dostálová and Small Architecture, which Klára Jeništová introduced to those interested. On Sunday afternoon, a guided tour with curator Ivan Jančár brought Milan Dobeš’s well-attended and successful exhibition Celebration of Color, Light, and Movement to a close.

Translated by DeepL