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Museum of Antonín Dvořák


is a part of the Czech Museum of Music which pertains to the complex of the National Museum. Since it was established in 1932 the Museum of A. Dvořák has had its seat in the baroque pleasure house built at the beginning of the 18th century by architect Kilian Ignac Dienzenhofer. The monographicly oriented institution develops versatile cultural and educational activities with the prevailing stress on the composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904). The Museum focuses on collecting, maintaining and displaying documents concerning the Maestro´s life and work, such as music autographs, correspondence and other written material, pieces of art and period photographs, programmes, posters, personal objects, etc.


The Museum treasures above all the unique collection of manuscripts of sheet music and correspondence. It also holds a large part of the composer´s library, sheet music archive as well as printed matter, which testify to the composer´s achievements during his life and to the rising fame of his work until today. The permanent exposition, open all year round, in detail presents Dvořák´s life, work, his pedagogical activities and concert performances. The study offers access to the sources as well as a number of literature on Dvořák and recordings. A small shop sells souvenirs, printed sheet music and recordings of local and international labels. The Museum is an important centre of research on Dvořák, it takes part in various types of scientific activities, it organizes concerts, lectures, exhibitions. It has extensive local as well as international contacts and is a sought-after target of music loving tourists and admirers of Dvořák´s music but also of specialists from all over the world.

Among the traditional activities of the Museum is the solemn remembrance ceremony by the composer´s grave at the Vyšehrad Cemetery on the eve of Dvořák´s death (1 May 1904) and the matinee on the day before his birth (8 September 1841) known as Dvořák´s Nelahozeves. It takes place in the Antonín Dvořák Memorial in Nelahozeves in the composer´s birth place, which is maintained by the Museum. An exhibition about the composer´s youth is situated there. Though very little authentic material is left of that period, the environment that influenced Dvořák for his whole life is impressive. The Museum also takes care of the village house of Dvořák´s best pupil and son-in-law Josef Suk. The exposition in the Suk Memorial in Křečovice presents the life and work of Josef Suk (1874-1935). The displayed documents illustrate the phases of his creative development, including his playing with the Czech Quartet. In the Church of St. Lucas in Křečovice a remembrance ceremony is held every year to commemorate the death (28 May 1935) of this important representative of Czech music of the beginning of the 20th century. Other locations connected with Dvořák are Vysoká near Příbram (a permanent exposition and occasional exhibitions), Zlonice (exposition about the composer´s youth, about local music tradition and the reconstructed flat of Dvořák´s teacher Antonín Liehmann) and Sychrov Castle near Turnov (memorial hall of the composer).



Addresses, contacts, opening hours, entry fees

I. National Museum – Czech Museum of Music

Museum of Antonín Dvořák
120 00 Praha 2, Ke Karlovu 20
tel./fax: +420 224 923 363, e-mail: a.dvorak.museum@nm.cz
open: Tuesday – Sunday 10-17
closed: Monday
entrance fee: adults 40 Kč, students, retired 20 Kč, children 10 Kč

Museum of Antonín Dvořák – Memorial of Antonín Dvořák
277 51 Nelahozeves 12
tel.: +420 315 785 099, +420 224 923 363 (+ fax)
open: 1. April – September: weekend 10-12, 13-17, other days per previous arrangement
2.October – March: weekend 9-12, 13-16, other days per previous arrangement
closed: 1. April – September: Monday and 1st weekend in each month
2.October – March: Monday and 1st and 3rd weekend in each month
entrance fee: adults 30 Kč, students, retired 15 Kč, children 5 Kč

Museum of Antonín Dvořák – Memorial of Josef Suk
257 48 Křečovice 3
tel.: +420 317 741 308, +420 224 923 363 (+fax)
open: weekend 10-17, other days per previous arrangement
closed: Monday
entrance fee: adults 30 Kč, students, retired 20 Kč, children 10 Kč

II. Other locations connected with Dvořák

Memorial of Antonín Dvořák in Vysoká near Příbram
Zámeček čp. 69, 262 42 Vysoká u Příbrami, p. Rožmitál
tel./fax: +420 318 618 115, e-mail: pamatnik@antonindvorak.cz
http://www.antonindvorak.cz
open: April – June, September, October: Tuesday – Sunday 10-16
July, August: Tuesday – Sunday 10-17
November – March: Tuesday – Friday 10-15
closed: Monday
entrance fee: adults 40 Kč, others 25 Kč

Memorial of Antonín Dvořák
Komenského 20, 273 71 Zlonice
tel.: +420 312 591 244, +420 312 591 313
open: all year Tuesday and Thursday 9-12, or per previous arrangement
entrance fee: adults 20 Kč, children, students, retired 10 Kč

Sychrov Castle
463 44 Sychrov
tel.: +420 482 416 011, fax: +420 485 146 104, e-mail: info@zamek-sychrov.cz
http://www.zamek-sychrov.cz
open: January – April: Monday – Sunday 9-15.30
May – August: 9-16.30
September – October: 9-15.30
November – December: 9-14.30
entrance fee: adults 80 (100) Kč, children, students, retired 40(50) Kč



Activities of the Museum of Antonín Dvořák

2003 – Currently open exhibition : "Dvořák´s Family in Period Photographs" April 2003 – December 2004

Events in 2003
- Remembrance ceremony at the composer´s grave at the Vyšehrad Cemetery, 99th anniversary of his death, Wednesday 30 April
- Exceptional chamber concert in the Museum of A. Dvořák (Museums Day), Sunday 18 May
- Suk´s Křečovice (social event held within the International Music Festival Prague Spring), a whole-day trip by bus connected with a visit to the Suk Memorial and birth place, a stop in Benešov (memorial plate), for the members of Antonín Dvořák Society, J. Suk Society and guests, 25 May
- Dvořák´s Nelahozeves, matinee to commemorate the 162nd anniversary of the composer´s birth, Memorial of A. Dvořák in Nelahozeves, Sunday 7 September

2004
- Exhibition „The Last Farewell of the World to Antonín Dvořák", opening Thursday, 11th March
- Remembrance ceremony at the composer´s grave at the Vyšehrad Cemetery, the 100th anniversary of his death, Friday 30 April
- Free entry day in the Museum of A. Dvořák and the Memorial of A. Dvořák in Nelahozeves – the 100th anniversary of the composer´s death, Saturday 1 May
- Dvořák´s Nelahozeves, matinee to commemorate the 163rd anniversary of the composer´s birth, The Memorial of A. Dvořák in Nelahozeves, Sunday 5 September



Events prepared in co-operation with other organizations

2004
- Solemn laying of a wreath at the composer´s statue in front of the Rudolfinum and opening of an exclusive two-day exhibition of the manuscript of Symphony No. 9 in minor in the seat of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Saturday 1 May
- Exhibition „Spiritual Works of Antonín Dvořák", Municipal House, 2 May 2004
- International Conference The Work of Antonín Dvořák (compositional aspects, problems of editing, reception), Praha, 9-11 September 2004 : Institute of Musicology at Charles University, Institute of Musicology of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Musicology Society, Antonín Dvořák Society (e-mail: jarmila.gabrielova@ff.cuni.cz, http://musicology.ff.cuni.cz.)

 
 
 
 
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