Moravské zemské muzeum / The Moravian Museum - The Bishop's Courtyard (Brno - South Moravia) - History Museums on Waymarking.com

The complex of the Bishop's Courtyard (Biskupský dvur) serves as the second location in Brno historic centre, where you can find expositions of Moravian Museum (Moravské zemské muzeum), The Moravian Museum 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 second largest building (or better complex of buildings), the Bishop's Courtyard, 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.

Biskupský dvur (Bishop's Courtyard) is the complex of buildings on three sides of a park-like courtyard is situated in the historic centre of Brno, below the Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The originally Gothic provost's residence of Brno Chapter was bougth byl Olomouc bishop Stanislav Pavlovský in 1588 (that is why the name "Bishop's Court") and substantially modified for the new owner by the Italian architect Antonio Gabri. The rebuilding after 1600 was accomplished by the successor of the bishop Pavlovský, cardinal František von Dietrichstein. From the Gothic era only the prismatic tower and the building with partly visible brickwork and narrow pointed and rectangular windows remain. The Renaissance architecture is represented by an arcade and an arcade loggia. [taken from MM web pages]