Museum of Horní Slavkov

Fax.: +420 352 602 217

Info Telefon: +420 352 688 130
Besucher-Email: muzeum@omks.cz
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The Horní Slavkov Museum is housed in a newly adapted Renaissance burgher 's house, No 211 Pluhova Street. It was opened as a branch of the Sokolov Regional Museum in 2001 with the very intensive support of the town of Horní Slavkov. A permanent exhibition presents the chief historical milestones and fields of human activity which have had a significant influence on the history of the town.

From the very outset, the chief motive force behind the town has been mining, particularly tin and later wolfram mining. Development was also influenced to a considerable extent by silver mining, which is now unjustifiably neglected, and after the Second World War by uranium mining. The mineralogical and geological sections of the exhibition are based on the fact that Horní Slavkov is one of the richest mineralogial sites in the world with some 400 classified mineral types. In this regard you can see some truly unique minerals such as carpholite, cassiterite, quartz, apatite, fluorite and fluellite. The exhibition also presents ore specimens and mining tool relics from various stages of historical development, particularly mining tool relics from the 16 th century, mining instruments and lanterns and objects relating to mining ethnography. The mineralogical specimens and mining heritage relics make highly attractive museum exhibits.

The most important craft production in the town was pewter work and porcelain manufacture, which are represented in the permanent exhibition by a number of products and specimens – tin plates, cups and other utilitarian objects were sometimes known as "poor man's silver". The first porcelain works in Bohemia went into operation in Slavkov in 1792. Its manufacture has gone down in the indelible history of the town and the annals of world porcelain production. The exhibition presents interesting specimens of its manufacture over the last 210 years.

Special attention should be devoted to the surrounding countryside, which is an integral part of the Slavkov Forest Protected Landscape Area and which is home to the large number of protected plant and animal species that live in this natural habitat. Noteworthy examples include the insectivorous sundews and arnica, which can be seen on the Protected Landscape Area logo.

A sad but very important chapter in the history of the town was the transition from a distinguished and architecturally imposing Renaissance mining town to the extensive devastation of its architectural heritage in the 1950s, which led to the quite unique obliteration of an entire urban heritage conservation area. The exhibition also presents these past architectural jewels of the town.

The exhibition also displays the unique open-hearth kitchen (or "black kitchen") on the ground floor of a burgher's house, although the brick kitchen stove beneath the chimney is missing. It is equipped with various token kitchen implements from the 16 th to the early 20 th century.
 

Castle Elbogen

Museum of Bookbinding

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Mining Museum Krásno

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Info Telefon: +420 352 688 740
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Art Gallery Karlovy Vary / Karlsbad

Fax.: +420 353 224 388

Info Telefon: +420 353 224 387
Besucher-Email: info@galeriekvary.cz

Tuesday – Sunday from 9 a.m. till 12 a.m. and from 13 p.m. till 17 p.m.
Entrance to all exhibitions is free on the first Wednesday of each month

Exhibition rooms of the City Museum Karlovy Vary / Karlsbad

Museum Golden Key

Tel.: +420 353 226 253

Info Telefon: +420 353 226 252

Regional Museum Karlovy Vary, allowance organization

Fax.: +420 353 224 434

Info Telefon: +420 353 224 433
Besucher-Email: sekretariat@kvmuz.cz
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Glass Museum Moser a.s.

Tel.: +420 800 166 737
Fax.: +420 353 449 619

Info Telefon: +420 353 449 455
Besucher-Email: customerservice@moser-glass.com
http://www.moser-glass.com/en/tradition/...

Monday - Friday 8 am - 5:30 pm
Saturday 9 am - 3 pm
Sunday closed

Come and discover the famous history of the Moser company, established by Ludwig Moser in 1857. The exposition is composed of historical exhibits, glassmaking tools, medals and other historical letters, photos, samples of pattern books, catalogues and historical advertising materials. Part of the exposition is devoted to the glassworks supplies for royalties and significant personages.

The history of glass production since the Moser foundation to the present. The museum is connected with a showroom and a shop. The museum exposition is subdivided into six thematic sections:
1. HISTORY OF THE MOSER GLASSWORKS
The exposition is dedicated to Ludwig and Leo Moser mapping the Moser history to the present.
2. MOSER GLASS
Samples of the basic scale of the Moser glass colours.
3. DECORATIVE GLASS AND TABLEWARE IN THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
The exposition presents the glassworks production, tableware and decorative glass from the beginnings of the 20th century to the present on a time line.
4. MOSER - GLASS OF KINGS - MOSER GLASS WITH COATS-OF-ARMS AND MONOGRAMS
Tableware and barware with coats-of-arms supplied to kings, emperors, shahs and maharajahs, governments and diplomatic missions of countries worldwide.
5. GIANT SNIFTERS CLUB
Learn of the club history and the Giant snifters.
6. MOSER GLASS SYMPOSIA
Samples of the design produced at the glass workshops, held in the glassworks in the 1990s.

 

Permanent Exhibition of the Moser Company

Fax.: +420 353 449 619

Info Telefon: +420 353 449 455, +420 800 166
Besucher-Email: customerservice@moser-glass.com
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