Moravské zemské muzeum / The Moravian Museum - Dietrichstein palace (Brno - South Moravia)
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The Moravian Museum (Moravské zemské muzeum), which main building - Dietrichstein palace is located in Cabbage Market (Zelný trh) in the Brno historic centre, is the second largest and oldest museum in the Czech Republic...
Waymark Code: WMBC96
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/04/2011
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The Moravian Museum (Moravské zemské muzeum), which main building - Dietrichstein palace is located in Cabbage Market (Zelný trh) in the Brno historic centre, is the second largest and oldest museum in the Czech Republic.
The Moravian Museum was founded in July 1817 in Moravian metropolis Brno. Museum's collections include over 6 millions of objects from many fields of science and culture - for example from literature, music and theatre, geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology and entomology. Museum occupies several buildings in several locations and the main building, the Dietrichstein palace, is the waymarked one...
The Museum is not only showing and managing its own rich collections, but it is also a research oriented institution with a broad spectrum of scientific interests. The Museum is state-funded body, governed directly by the Ministry of culture of the Czech Republic.