Birth house of Prokop Diviš, Log house museum in Helvíkovice, Czech Republic

The Birth House of Prokop Diviš is a small single-storey log house with a covered porch and a dark grey shingle saddle roof, standing on the left bank of the Divoká Orlice near the Helvíkovice bridge. Its three-part layout combines a large living room and a smaller chamber, with a whitewashed exterior and six-pane windows. Inside, a small exhibition shows replicas of Diviš's instruments, including a Leyden jar.

The house is called Prokop Diviš's alleged birthplace; Diviš was born in Helvíkovice in 1698. The log building itself dates from the first third of the 19th century, or possibly the second half. It decayed between 1918 and 1939, was to be demolished in 1941, was bought from private owners in the early 1960s and was declared a cultural monument on 16 May 1964. In the 1990s the town of Žamberk bought it.

The house is named after Prokop Diviš, a native of Žamberk remembered for his grounded lightning conductor; a small exhibition inside presents replicas of his instruments, such as a Leyden jar. The main room, furnished with a table, peasant chairs, a bed, chests and a cradle, shows how poor rural families lived in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Žamberk a theatre and the Diviš amateur theatre society also carry his name.

The house stands on the left bank of the Divoká Orlice by the Helvíkovice bridge, in the Helvíkovice cadastre on the western edge of Žamberk. It is open to the public with a guide from May to September. The town museum in Žamberk's Kateřinský špitál holds further Diviš exhibits and information.

Beside the log house stands a steel replica of Diviš's grounded lightning conductor, carrying his "meteorological machine" 11 metres above the ground; the frame measures 2.75 m wide and 3.15 m high. The original apparatus is not at the house, and a model of it is displayed in the Žamberk town museum.