Mendel's parental house open to visitors

The village of Hyncice in North Moravia has opened to visitors the parental house of 19th century biologist and priest Johann Gregor Mendel, sometimes called "the father of modern genetics". Mendel was born in Hyncice in 1822 into a family of a poor German-speaking farmer and later conducted his famous experiments with pea plants in a Brno monastery. The renovated 18th-century farmhouse houses exhibitions on the scientist's life and the history of plant cultivation in Moravia. The renovation cost 30 million crowns which the village received partly from EU funds, the region and the national government.