Hernych House in Ústí nad Orlicí will open to the public this year

Ústí nad Orlicí - This year, a cultural center will be added in Ústí nad Orlicí. In mid-March, the town hall plans to open the reconstructed Art Nouveau Hernych Villa. Throughout the year, the city museum will offer 12 exhibitions here. There should also be concerts, art workshops, and weddings held here, for example. The villa is also set to serve as a center for the Czech-Polish border region. Jarmila Süsserová, the museum director, told ČTK today.
    "The planned exhibitions will gradually fill the villa. We will present Silesian jewelry and matchbox labels from Bystřice Klodská as the first exhibition. In the following years, we will also focus on other common features with Poland,” the director stated.
    The museum will dedicate its April exhibitions to Art Nouveau tin objects from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and to the Kocian cousins from Ústí nad Orlicí. Jaroslav became famous as a violin virtuoso and music composer, while Qudio was among the leading sculptors at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
    In May, an exhibition tracing 50 years of the Kocian Violin Competition will be held at Hernych Villa, and the following month, the Ústí nad Orlicí Club of Czech Tourists will celebrate its 90th anniversary here. The villa will also host an exhibition called The Kingdom of Honey.
    In Ústí nad Orlicí, they will also commemorate significant events marked by the number eight in Czech history; in August, it will be the year 1968, and in September, the museum is preparing an exhibition titled Year 1918 in Visual Arts. Following this, the exhibition In the Name of the Law will explore the history of border units in the region, and there will also be an exhibition celebrating 205 years of the Cecilian Music Society. At the end of November, visitors can look forward to the Christmas-themed exhibition I Run to Bethlehem, where the museum will showcase nativity scenes from Ústí.
    The city has obtained European funds for the renovation of the Art Nouveau villa from 1906, with the entire reconstruction costing about 40 million crowns. In the villa's basement, builders will create a restaurant, and the currently inaccessible garden will be transformed into a park, said Deputy Mayor Luboš Bäuchel to ČTK.
    "We will try to attract as many people as possible to the villa,” the deputy mayor added.