The Moravian Museum needs a repository

Brno - The Moravian Museum in Brno urgently needs a new central depository. According to director Martin Reissner, its construction would cost more than half a billion crowns. There is currently no necessary funding in the culture ministry's budget, which established the museum. "We are looking for possible financing options," Reissner told ČTK and Czech Radio.
    The Moravian Museum is the second largest and the second oldest in the Czech Republic, after the museums in Prague and Opava. It currently manages more than six million items from various scientific fields.
    According to Reissner, the central depository could be built on the museum's land in Rebešovice near Brno, where there are four smaller storage buildings in the area of the former barracks. "We would like to build a new complex there, primarily intended for natural history collections, including a reserve for the next decade," Reissner stated.
    The museum urgently needs the depository also because some publicly inaccessible collections are currently unnecessarily taking up space in the historic palaces of the museum in the center of Brno. "Our goal is to open as many historic buildings to the public as possible," Reissner said.
    The Moravian Museum has been engaged in many fields of natural and social sciences since 1817. It presents its collections to the public, for example, in the Dietrichstein Palace, the Palace of Noblewomen, the Bishop's Court, the Anthropos Pavilion, and the Leoš Janáček Memorial in Brno, as well as in Budišov in Vysočina and at the Old Castle in Jevišovice in the Znojmo region.