The Museum
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The Regional Museum in Teplice  The Regional Museum in Teplice is an allowance organization of the Ústecký region and is located in the building of the Teplice castle, which belonged to the Clary-Aldringens for centuries and was built on remains of a Romanic Benedictine cloister established by the Czech queen Judith the second wife of the Czech king Vladislav II.You can see the remains of a basilica of the original cloister besides the permanent expositions of archaeology, pottery and porcelain, balneology, Gothic and Baroque art, historic clocks, coining cabinet and historic rooms. You can also visit a number of other exhibitions prepared for you within the representative premises of the castle. You can learn more about these and each particular exposition on the Internet pages of the Teplice’s museum. The Teplice museum includes almost two million items assorted in 5 sections. The section of Sciences with geological and zoological workplace documents the development of natural conditions in Northwest Bohemia and their changes due to civilization processes. The Archaeological section focuses on the development of settlement in the region and performs field researches in the area of mining and construction activities. The section of History manages historic, ethnographic, numismatic and art-historic collections. It deals with the economic, political, cultural and social development in the region, life-style changes and environmental changes. A considerable attention is paid to the documentation of glass-making, pottery, tinnery and balneology. The library builds funds of specialised and regional literature, collections of old or rare issues and manages two historical library sets. The preservation and restauration of collections are taken care of by the department of servicing of the museum whose job is also to photodocument and present expositions and exhibitions. The contemporary museum resumes its tradition dated up to year 1894 when the Museum Company was established and later on the 7th of December 1897 opened the museum in Školní Street No. 17. The museum was located here until 1905 when it was moved to Živnostenský Dům (nowadays a building of the County Archive). The original collections fund consisted of items bought from a versatile collector A. H. Fassl who made them accessible to the public from 1873. The Museum Company formulated its program in direct connection with the development and industrialisation of Teplice County and therefore stated three main goals for the museum. It was supposed to help and support the efforts of improving the technological and aesthetic level of pottery and glass working production and to secure archaeological monuments revealed and discovered during coal mining and other ground works on a daily basis through the help of monetary collections besides the usual collecting of geographic documentation. This orientation affected the operation of the museum, which used to be regarded as the biggest and best country museum in Bohemia for decades. In 1945 the museum moved under the management of the town and in 1947 it was given the castle of Clary-Aldringens into its care. During later times it fell under the Severočeský Regional People’s Committee and performed a national function. In the 90’s of the 20the century the museum was amongst the organization established directly by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and it has been in operation with an unchanged function within the promoting sphere of the Ústecký Region since 1-10-2001. Visitation domains: Duration of the visitation: cca 60 min guide way A guide way B Additional offers:
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