Mendel Museum, Genetics museum in Old Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

The Mendel Museum occupies rooms within the Augustinian Abbey and displays exhibits on genetics research, botanical collections, and scientific instruments from different periods. The presentation traces how understanding of heredity developed through objects, manuscripts, and experimental tools.

Gregor Mendel conducted his pea plant experiments at this site during the 1850s and 1860s, laying the foundation for modern genetics. His findings about inheritance patterns became the basis for today's understanding of how traits pass between generations.

The museum's name honours Gregor Johann Mendel, the Augustinian abbot who bred peas, kept bees and recorded weather at the abbey. Since 2002 it has occupied his original workplace, and since 2016 Zdeněk Fránek's exhibition has paired authentic objects with animations by Drew Berry of the University of Melbourne.

The museum sits in the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno, where Mendel worked as abbot. Its rooms include a lecture hall and a café, and since 2016 the exhibition follows Mendel's life chronologically, room by room, from 1822 to his entry into the monastery in 1843.

The museum's rooms were designed by Bohuslav Fuchs for the genetic department of the Moravian Museum, which opened the Mendelianum there in the abbey refectory in 1964. Between 1965 and 2001 this Mendelianum occupied the abbey; since 2012 it has been housed in the Bishop's Court. The current museum also holds a lecture hall and a café.