The beginnings of the Regional Museum in Olomouc date back to 1883, when the Patriotic Museum Society established its own museum as the first Czech museum in Moravia. Today the whole museum collection fund amounts over 1,000,000 items. It comprises of geological, mineralogical, paleontological, zoological, entomological, archeological, numismatic, ethnographical, cartographic, military, medical-pharmaceutical, musical, decorative arts collections, followed by collections dealing with the development of industry, transport, business and handcrafts. The architectonic development of the region is shown in a large collection of topographic graphics, drawing and painting. It is worth pointing out that there is also the collection of historical shot targets, illustrating a. o. the iconography of Olomouc. Literary evolution of the region is documented through literary inheritance in the literary museum archives. The museum´s photographic archives contains about 300,000 negatives. In the lapidarium over 400 unique items are deposited, which document the building´s evolution since the Roman style up to the 19th century. The library with more than 70 000 volumes also takes care of unique collection of 126 manuscripts and 2000 ancient prints.
The permanent exhibitions are situated in the building at náměstí Republiky, No 5 in Olomouc. This building was originally a convent of the order of St. Clara. The first convent was founded here already in the 13th century, but it was rebuilt in the 18th century into a late baroque style. The convent was cancelled in 1781 by the emperor Joseph II as well as others cloisters, which members didn´t engage in care for the ill or in education. In convent´s church the university library was located and the convent´s buildings were used as barracks. Since 1951 these buildings belong to the Regional Museum in Olomouc.
Along the permanent exhibitions there are also two exhibition halls - Northern Hall and Large Hall, where on average 20 exhibitions take place annualy.
The archeological permanent exhibition documents the oldest history of the region through several chosen relics. They document the evolution of the settlement in the territory of Central Moravia from the Paleolithe to Slavonic material culture. The oldest findings are from the Paleolithic finding-place in Předmostí near Přerov, Mladeč near Litovel and other temporary camping-sites. A big amount of hand-made ceramics, including the bronze founding production, predicates of the intensive settlement of the region in Bronze Age. A unique mass find in Náklo consisting of a bronze cist and several small kettles is the clear evidence of business contacts with the Hallstatt region. Differentiation of the Laten community, the carriers of which the Celts were, is documented with the inventory of a warrior grave in Nemilany.
The main purpose of this interesting permanent exhibition is to show visitors the technical progress and development of styles of time measuring instruments from the oldest times to the present. There are gothic, renaissance, baroque and classicist clocks as well as the documentation of the beginnings of mass production of clocks. The permanent exhibition represents a complex of well-preserved parts of the Olomouc astronomical clock from the 16th century till 1926 (machine mechanisms, clock faces, figural sculptures, remains of wood-carving and painting decoration). It belongs to the unique sets of museum collections in Europe.
This is the most popular permanent exhibition of the whole museum. It has been completly reconstructed in 1995 and during this reconstruction also took place the represervation of more than 500 skins. The exhibition shows natural environment and species living in our region at present time. Here you can see more than 1200 specimens, belonging to approximately 700 animal species. The exhibition presents the majority of native animal species living in the Czech Republic and tries to give a portrait of their way of life and reproduction. Some rare or recently extinct species from the territory of the Czech Republic are also displayed.
Permanent exhibition is closed.
The exhibition provides basic information about geological and mineralogical situation in the Central Moravian and Northern Moravian region. Individual sections of the permanent exhibition give characteristics of geological evolution, construction and important geological phenomena. The basis of the permanent exhibition form instructive geological and mineralogical products of nature – rocks, minerals, ores, paleontological samples replenished by texts, graphical and photo material.
Permanent exhibition is closed.
This permanent exhibition represents life material of The Seed Bank of Endangered Plant Species of Regional Museum in Olomouc. The bank is connected with both practical and active protection of endangered species and their populations. The bank also contributes toward sustaining the biodiversity in specific habitats where the endangered species occur. The high standards of The Seed Bank of Endangered Plant Species of Regional Museum in Olomouc are maintained through scientific collaboration with academic institutions, state nature conservancy and NGOs.
The permanent exhibition Endangered Plant Species is opened from April the 1st till September the 30th in museum atrium, daily except Monday from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.
Open hours:
April - September: daily except Monday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
October - March: daily except Monday and Tuesday 10 a.m. – 5 p. m.
Tickets:
Permanent exhibitions
Full price 40 Kč
Schoolchildren, students, seniors 20 Kč
Family ticket 50 Kč
Exhibitions
Full price 20 Kč
Schoolchildren, students, seniors 10 Kč
Originally a castle park, which was founded around 1700. Present shape of the park was designed between 1926-1946 by the owner of the park and the castle Quido Riedl, prominent dendrologist, botanist and gardener. In 1965 the park was given to custody to the Regional Museum in Olomouc and in 1969 it was pronounced protected area – arboretum.
At present you can find about 300 kinds and forms of leafy, coniferous and permanently green woods in the arboretum.
Open hours:
April: Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
May – September: daily except Monday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
October: Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tickets:
Full price 20 Kč
Schoolchildren, students, seniors 10 Kč