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Current AffairsMikulov’s summer art symposiums sampled at Malostranská beseda
Each summer, the south Moravian town of Mikulov hosts Czech and
international artists who come for an annual art symposium. Since the event
was first held in 1994, they have created more than 260 artefacts, some of
which are exhibited at the Mikulov chateau. But now, selected works from
the Mikulov collection of contemporary art have also gone on display at the
Malostranská beseda gallery in Prague. More
Czech HistoryMikulov museum displays historic scientific instruments from town’s 380-year-old Piarist school
The Regional Museum in Mikulov, in southern Moravia, has opened an
exhibition of historic scientific instruments once used at the town’s
380-year-old grammar school. The exhibition highlights the beauty of the
elaborate antique objects, and it also shows what role the school, founded
by the Catholic order of the Piarists in the middle of the Thirty Years’
War, played in the town’s history. More
Current AffairsMercedes Dietrichstein: We just want justice
The south Moravian town of Mikulov, located just on the Austrian border,
was for many centuries the seat of the aristocratic family of the
Dietrichsteins. After the Second World War, Mikulov chateau together with
the rest of the family property was confiscated by the state. Ever since
the fall of communism, Mercedes Dietrichstein, who was born in Mikulov and
lives in Buenos Aires, has fought to get the family estates back. But last
week, a court in nearby Břeclav dismissed the claim. Radio Prague spoke to
Mercedes Dietrichstein and asked her how she felt about the verdict.
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PanoramaRabbi Loew, the Jewish hero of the Czechs
“Path of Life” is the name of a new exhibition by the Jewish Museum in
Prague marking 400 years since the death of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a
16th century scholar and teacher, the Chief Rabbi of Bohemia. Today, most
Czechs remember him not only for being a wise man and a learned scholar,
but primarily for being the legendary creator of the Golem, a mythical deed
that earned him the status of a national hero.
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