Architecture, construction, industrial design
This exhibition will introduce the best of the National Technical Museum's collections and archives and will present the last two centuries of Czech engineering work, construction art and architectural and artistic culture. It will follow up the historical exhibition located in the time the museum began in the Schwarzenberg Palace.
Thanks to its range and quality, the
architecture and construction archive is without peer in Central Europe. In
addition, it will create space for the presentation of excellent collections of
Czech industrial design. By doing this we want to make up for the lack of a
similarly comprehensive exhibition on the subject in the Czech Republic and pay
this debt to the general lay and specialist public from the Czech Republic and
abroad. The exhibition will become a unique review of architectural and
construction art in the last two centuries, the development of industrial
civilisation and therefore material culture in the Czech lands, and it will also
be a means of understanding the European context in these fields.
The exhibition's main mission is to present the last hundred and fifty years of engineering work and architectural and construction art in the Czech lands, as well as the related design culture. Through authentic and three-dimensional exhibits – contemporary architectural models of buildings and parts, architectural sculptures and statues, construction models of roofs, bridges and water works, machinery, tools, industrial products and items of daily consumption that until recently had only been exhibited occasionally – and selected two-dimensional archive materials – sketches, plans, photographs, contemporary posters, pictures and samplers – you will be able to experience the history of construction culture and the most important personalities and events in all fields. In addition, in an unobtrusive, playful way we will explain the basic principles of buildings and style rules. You will find a special children's play area in the exhibition and a route round the exhibition for the blind.
All three subjects will be mixed together chronologically and in parallel in the exhibition, in specific buildings, phenomena, concepts and ideas, with emphasis on technological and construction systems and style periods. It will contain organic units, be interactive and the static effect of most of the exhibits will be supplemented by dynamic elements, including multimedia information and image environment that will present in detail the exhibits in which you express a deeper interest.
The subjects of architecture, construction and industrial design are, when taken together, reminiscent of exhibitions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries (the Jubilee Exhibition in 1891, the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering in 1898 and the Exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce and Trades in 1908).
Visualization of the planned exhibition
