 Technical Museum in Brno
www.technicalmuseum.cz
Purkyňova 105
Permanent exhibitions: Water Engines with the Viktor Kaplan Memorial, Steam Engines, Historical Vehicles, Historical Stereovision, Cutlery, Metal Casting, Iron Metallurgy, Salon of Mechanical Music, From the Tamtam to the Internet, History of Flying and Plastic Kit Models, Craftsmen’s Lane, Culture of the Blind, Time Above Us and Around Us
The technological gamehall is closed due to reconstruction!
Exhibitions: Nonsense or Find Sense in Nonsense
Secrets from the Vaults – what you may not have seen yet
Josef Ressel, Czech inventor of European status
Louis Braille, creator of the alphabet for the blind
The evening programme on the museum night in the courtyard will celebrate the end of the NONSENSE exhibition featuring a special display of nonsense exhibits which for various reasons (“censorship” etc.) failed to make it to the exhibition.
18.00
Museum Night’s Dawn – performed by the Svítání (Dawn) band from Brno
19.30, 20.30, 22.00 a 23.30
Non-movement Dance Creations between Nonsenses with their commented large-screen projection – in the role of the nonsenseologist and master of ceremonies on the night none other than dr. Zdeněk Korčián with a collective of students of the Dance Conservatoire Brno.
An original atmosphere will be cultivated by the Nonsense Quintet, whose repertory will be put together from compositions selected by the visitors. You can send your musical requests even now via www.technicalmuseum.cz. The brave will be given a chance to “sing” in a contest for the Museum Night Bell Prize 2009.
The exhibitions will be traditionally brought to life by people in period costumes.
The Hospoda u Pavlíků inn will stage the Dúbrava cymbalom band led by Jarda Lesák with Daniel Kikta on the accordion.
Visitors’ hair will be “undulated” by hairdressers from the Edward Scissorhands Studio.
The bookbinding workshop will be run by students of the Integrated Polygraphic School. The experimental metal casting workshop will show examples of the craft.
Visitors will have an opportunity to try and “drive” on a driving simulator from the 1970’s.
In front of the museum “Live Steam” embodied by RC models of engines driven by a real functioning steam engine will be puffing along the railway track.
In the permanent exhibition of aeroplanes an anchored hot-air balloon made by the third largest balloon manufacturer in the world Balóny Kubíček spol. s r.o. will hover in mid air.
Ample refreshments will be provided in the museum courtyard.
In addition to the shuttle service the visitors can board the vintage buses from the collections of the Technical Museum in Brno and take a show ride.
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