Technical Museum in Brno, Technical museum in Královo Pole, Czech Republic.
The Technical Museum in Brno is a building in Královo Pole housing a broad collection of machinery, vehicles, steam engines, and technical equipment. The exhibitions span multiple areas and show different aspects of industrial development.
A committee formed in Brno in 1924 sought a technical museum for Moravia and Silesia. Its direct predecessor, the Archive for the History of Industry, Trade and Technical Work, was founded in 1936 and revived in 1948. On 1 January 1961 the Brno branch separated from the Prague National Technical Museum as the independent Technical Museum in Brno.
The museum's Friends' Circle includes a section devoted to flašinety, mechanical street organs played by itinerant musicians around 1900. Members perform at festivals and fairs, co-organize an international organ festival, and since 2014 hold a seminar on restoring and cataloguing these instruments.
The museum occupies a converted building at Purkyňova 2950/105 in Královo Pole, opened to the public on 5 June 2003. It holds 16 permanent exhibitions plus a Technická herna hands-on room on physics and its technical applications. A reference library is on site, and the museum also manages branch technical monuments elsewhere in Moravia.
The museum manages eight branch sites, including the Czechoslovak fortification area at Šatov, the windmill at Kuželov and the watermill at Slup. Since 2013 it has also held the buildings and hangars of the former Černovice airfield in Brno.
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