Museum of the Bohemian Paradise receives national Gloria Musaealis award

The Museum of the Bohemian Paradise in Turnov has received the main Gloria Musaealis prize in a national competition for its new exhibition on mountaineering, created within a cross-border cooperation programme supported by EU funds.

The exhibition, called ‘Mountaineering - from the Bohemian Paradise to the Peaks of the World’ was conceived in partnership with a German museum in Bad Schandau, Saxony, in which a smaller exhibition entitled ‘Climbing Worlds in the Elbe Sandstone’ was created.

In the Exhibition of the Year category, the South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice won with its new exhibitions on nature, archaeology and folklore. In total, 60 museums with a total of 87 projects took part in the competition.