Agricultural Museum will build structures in Č. Budějovice for 460 million
České Budějovice – The National Agricultural Museum will build two buildings at the exhibition grounds in České Budějovice. The costs will be 460 million CZK, and it is expected to be completed by 2025. The new branches will focus on fisheries, agricultural machinery, and food from South Bohemia. The exhibition on fisheries will thus be removed from the branch in Hluboká. Thanks to the new buildings, the exhibition area could operate year-round, said Zdeněk Novák, the director of the National Agricultural Museum, to CTK today.
At the agrosalon today, representatives of the museum and the Ministry of Agriculture laid the foundation stone at pavilion C1. One building will be built on the site of this pavilion, which will be demolished. It will focus on fisheries and pond farming. "The branch at Ohrada Castle is a sanctuary for hunters and foresters, and fishermen and pond farmers do not have any such meeting place, so we want to create one for them here. We will thus return Ohrada Castle to its original Schwarzenberg focus on forest, hunting, and fishing. The building will symbolically be in the shape of a crowned pearl and could be an interesting landmark at the entrance to the exhibition area," said the director.
The second building will be by the Vltava River. It will showcase how food is produced using agricultural machinery, especially those manufactured in South Bohemia. "We would also like to present regional foods there, as there is the famous Budvar, the renowned Madeta, and many other producers. It should be a lively corner year-round, with a large part open to the public, a large greenhouse, so even when it's dreary in South Bohemia, people can warm up there," Novák stated. He also plans exhibitions, and there will be beehives, fields, and a viewpoint on the roof.
The exhibition grounds could also lease ponds near pavilion C1 to the museum. An educational trail is expected to be created around them. "We would like to create the illusion that our visitors will be looking into a pond. The area (exhibition grounds) will thus live year-round and eliminate the amplitude between crowds at exhibitions and emptiness when no exhibition is taking place," Novák added. The Ministry of Agriculture will help with the construction costs, and the museum will also apply for European funding from IROP.
The museum has announced a collection of historical items for the new branches, which will last until the end of the year. It is looking for historical machines, tractors, steam and seeding machines, wind engines, turbines, threshers, or plows. "We are also interested in smaller pieces such as fishing nets, traps, and rods," said the museum's spokesperson Jitka Taussiková in a press release.
In addition to its main building in Prague, the museum has five branches – Čáslav, the castles of Kačina, Ohrada, Valtice, and the newly opened museum in Ostrava. It organizes dozens of events every year.
At the Earth Live exhibition this year, it showcased historical machines, a collection of Zetor tractors from its collections in pavilion Z. Among the rarest is the Zetor 26 from the late 1950s, which did not go into series production, and only a limited test series was made.
At the 47th annual agrosalon Earth Live, nearly 500 exhibitors are presenting until August 31, fewer than two years ago. Last year was canceled due to the coronavirus. Two years ago, it attracted 123,017 people. This year, around 100,000 visitors are expected, said Martin Karban, chairman of the exhibition grounds, to CTK today.
At the agrosalon today, representatives of the museum and the Ministry of Agriculture laid the foundation stone at pavilion C1. One building will be built on the site of this pavilion, which will be demolished. It will focus on fisheries and pond farming. "The branch at Ohrada Castle is a sanctuary for hunters and foresters, and fishermen and pond farmers do not have any such meeting place, so we want to create one for them here. We will thus return Ohrada Castle to its original Schwarzenberg focus on forest, hunting, and fishing. The building will symbolically be in the shape of a crowned pearl and could be an interesting landmark at the entrance to the exhibition area," said the director.
The second building will be by the Vltava River. It will showcase how food is produced using agricultural machinery, especially those manufactured in South Bohemia. "We would also like to present regional foods there, as there is the famous Budvar, the renowned Madeta, and many other producers. It should be a lively corner year-round, with a large part open to the public, a large greenhouse, so even when it's dreary in South Bohemia, people can warm up there," Novák stated. He also plans exhibitions, and there will be beehives, fields, and a viewpoint on the roof.
The exhibition grounds could also lease ponds near pavilion C1 to the museum. An educational trail is expected to be created around them. "We would like to create the illusion that our visitors will be looking into a pond. The area (exhibition grounds) will thus live year-round and eliminate the amplitude between crowds at exhibitions and emptiness when no exhibition is taking place," Novák added. The Ministry of Agriculture will help with the construction costs, and the museum will also apply for European funding from IROP.
The museum has announced a collection of historical items for the new branches, which will last until the end of the year. It is looking for historical machines, tractors, steam and seeding machines, wind engines, turbines, threshers, or plows. "We are also interested in smaller pieces such as fishing nets, traps, and rods," said the museum's spokesperson Jitka Taussiková in a press release.
In addition to its main building in Prague, the museum has five branches – Čáslav, the castles of Kačina, Ohrada, Valtice, and the newly opened museum in Ostrava. It organizes dozens of events every year.
At the Earth Live exhibition this year, it showcased historical machines, a collection of Zetor tractors from its collections in pavilion Z. Among the rarest is the Zetor 26 from the late 1950s, which did not go into series production, and only a limited test series was made.
At the 47th annual agrosalon Earth Live, nearly 500 exhibitors are presenting until August 31, fewer than two years ago. Last year was canceled due to the coronavirus. Two years ago, it attracted 123,017 people. This year, around 100,000 visitors are expected, said Martin Karban, chairman of the exhibition grounds, to CTK today.
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