Things to do in Pardubice Region, Bohemia: The Best Specialty Museums

Bar Cafe Museum. Museum of vintage mobile phones. The collection is about 300 pcs. Draft beer. Cofe by Italy. Kinder master class at weekend and many other.

Firefighters museum Koci shows old fire engines from Czech Republic and other european countries. We can show you equipment used by firefighters since 20th century till nowadays. In our museum you will see also fire ladders, helmets, uniforms and axes. We have wheelchair access and big parking lot for you.

The Craft Museum was open on May, 18th 2000. It is placed in the listed area of Novy Dvur from 1750. With the area of 1650 m2, it is the biggest museum of its kind in the Czech Republic. It includes more than 50 compound expositions of crafts and trades from the period 1840 - 1930. Apart from relatively known professions such as a joiner or a woodcutter, work of a tinsmith (an extrusion man), a wheelwright, a cooper, a shingle maker and many others are presented here. The most interesting exhibits are carved mechanical open-air museum of crafts, mechanical workshops, an exposition of saw mill with three functioning frame saws and exposition of a schoolroom with folk costumes. There is also a exhibition called VEHICLE DEPOT which shows historical vehicles. After the tour around the museum the visitors can sit down in a stylish Restaurant Novy dvur, which is placed in the same building as the museum.

Since 1972 the Chrudim Puppet Museum introduces visitors to the development of puppetry in the Czech lands and presents outstanding collection of puppets from different countries. Today, the Museum has around 50,000 items, including more than 8,500 puppets from around the World. The important parts of the muzeum are also a professional library and a research center.