Pardubice Museum will offer an online exhibition of old photographs of the city

Pardubice – The East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice has prepared another online exhibition due to the closure resulting from anti-epidemic measures. From Tuesday, photographs of Pardubice from the normalization era will be accessible on the website. People will be able to view the developmental changes in the city, stated Kateřina Procházková Skůpová from the museum in a press release.

"Part of our museum work is once again being moved online. For our next online exhibition, we have chosen the theme of the transformation of the city of Pardubice in the 1970s and 1980s. We hope that our virtual visitors will enjoy reminiscing about familiar places that are gradually fading from memory, as well as trying to recognize those that have completely changed," said the director of the East Bohemian Museum, Tomáš Libánek.

The photographs feature the Budovatelů Square, now Masarykovo. Its site was freed up by the demolition of the cavalry barracks. The wave of development also affected the synagogue and the Veselka hotel. "The construction of the new train station by architects Karel Řepa and Karel Kalvoda and the building of Palackého Street with panel houses fundamentally transformed the green suburb," stated the exhibition's author, curator Veronika Schiebelová.

The area between Míru Boulevard and the railway underwent demolition. Characteristic buildings in this part of the city were primarily single-story houses lining the long streets. The original Karlova, Jiříkova, Žitná, Hostýnská, and Jindřišská streets are now a thing of the past. The entire future housing estate has been named Karlovina.

The displayed photographs also capture the vanished life of the city's former residents. People can take a look at a barbershop on Míru Boulevard, the queue for Christmas carp at the Grand, or children and strollers in front of the modern self-service store Jana in Polabiny.

Since last year, the East Bohemian Museum has offered four online exhibitions. Three of them started after the museum's closure earlier this spring.