Měnínská brána, Gothic city gate in Brno, Czech Republic

Měnínská Brána is a Gothic city gate built from stone blocks as part of Brno's medieval fortifications with multiple interior levels. The structure served both defensive and residential purposes after its initial construction in the 13th century.

The gate is first recorded in June 1293 at the junction of Kobližná and Jánská streets; a 1348 record places a gate called Branka on today's Orlí street site, and the move probably happened in the 1330s because a stream on Kobližná made passage difficult. In 1839 a storey was removed and the gate became housing, bought about a decade later by a local merchant woman whose family used it until the 1960s. War damage in 1945 was repaired from 1978, and the gate opened to the public in 1983.

The gate is named after the Měnín quarter, one of the four quarters of the original city of Brno. From 2010 it housed the Museum of Toys, which was closed in 2020 because of the building's emergency condition; the gate then stood unused while the city prepared its reconstruction.

The gate stands on Orlí Street near Malinovského Square, and reconstruction began in April 2025 with completion planned for 2027, so the interior stays closed meanwhile. The exterior can be viewed from the street at any hour. The best-preserved stretch of the old city wall besides the gate is behind the Secondary School of Applied Arts on Husova Street.

The gate's name comes from the Měnín quarter, one of the four quarters of the original city of Brno. A 1348 record places the Měnínská gate one street away from today's site, where the town's Branka stood; the move probably happened in the 1330s because a stream on Kobližná street made passage difficult for carts in rainy weather.