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Jewish houses lost to Nazis focus of new Brno exhibition
More than 700 Jewish houses in Brno were confiscated by the Nazis during WWII. The houses and their stories are focus of a new exhibition at Brno’s Little Mehrin Museum.
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Dvořák archive and Moll Map Collection added to UNESCO list
Two valuable documentary collections from Czechia have been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register: the Antonín Dvořák Archive and the Moll Map Collection.
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“This is where my grandmother belongs” – Jewish family donates artwork to Brno museum
A portrait of a Jewish woman called Anna Wotzilkova, who was born in South Moravia and died in the Holocaust, has been donated to the newly planned Moravian Jewish Museum.
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Moravian village gets unique wooden chapel thanks to crowdfunding effort
The small Moravian village of Nesvačilka, which lacked a house of prayer for over 300 years, will soon have its own unique wooden chapel.
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Renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma wins competition for new Jewish museum in Brno
The renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has won an international competition for the design of a new Jewish Museum in the Moravian city of Brno.
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Most popular Brno souvenir is for free
Brno’s astronomical clock provides tourists with the chance to take away an unexpected souvenir.
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Brno buildings stripped of protective status under Communism at risk
Due to registration errors before the Velvet Revolution, buildings that were or should be designated as cultural monuments lost their protected status.
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Finalists chosen for Brno train station project – the biggest Czech architectural competition yet
The biggest architectural competition in modern Czech history has advanced to the final stage. Brno this week picked four teams to vie to design its new main train station.
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Czech Radio survey: Meet a member of “the class of local ties”
The smallest of six major social groups identified by a Czech Radio survey is the so-called class of local ties. These are people on low incomes but boasting other kinds…