Východočeský památník celnictví, Customs museum in Králíky, Czech Republic.
The Východočeský památník celnictví occupies building no. 367 on Velké náměstí in Králíky and holds the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Czechoslovak Fortifications 1935–38 K-S 14 "U cihelny". Opened to the public in 2018, it is the largest museum exhibition of its kind in the Czech Republic. Inside are a life-size house of St Matthew, the office of a senior customs official of the Austrian governorate, a half-timbered "Finanzwache" building and the office of a First Republic customs officer, with uniforms, scales, weights and hollow and linear measures including the Czech and Viennese "loket".
The permanent exhibition opened to the public in 2018 in building no. 367 on Velké náměstí in Králíky, run by the Museum of Czechoslovak Fortifications 1935–38 K-S 14 "U cihelny". It is the largest specialised museum exhibition of its kind in the Czech Republic and traces customs administration across historical periods. It links to the memorial and exhibition of the financial guard in the museum's underground.
The location name refers to its position in the eastern part of the Bohemian region. The exhibits show how customs officers carried out their daily work and what tools they relied on.
The memorial occupies the building at No. 367 on Králíky's Velké náměstí (Great Square), where the exhibition opened to the public in 2018. It is run by the Museum of Czechoslovak Fortifications 1935–38, K-S 14 "U cihelny", and the displays connect with the financial guard memorial in that museum's underground.
The museum holds period sound recordings of smugglers and financial guards from the mountains, made in the first half of the 20th century and kept in its own collection. The exhibition also introduces figures such as the painter Henri Rousseau, Josef Němec, husband of the writer Božena Němcová, and Emil Martinec, author of the first customs law of independent Czechoslovakia.
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