Tomáš Kremr

Fragments of Brno’s iconic buildings are heading to a Liverpool cemetery to form a new memorial for Ernst Wiesner, a key interwar Brno architect.

Simona Monyová was a successful Czech novelist who was stabbed to death by her husband. A film series about her life aims to highlight the problem of domestic violence.

The town of Hrušovany near Brno plans to renovate a unique villa designed by the pioneering modernist architect Adolf Loos.

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.

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.

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.

The small Moravian village of Nesvačilka, which lacked a house of prayer for over 300 years, will soon have its own unique wooden chapel.

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.  

Brno’s astronomical clock provides tourists with the chance to take away an unexpected souvenir.

Due to registration errors before the Velvet Revolution, buildings that were or should be designated as cultural monuments lost their protected status.