Museum Of Romani Culture, Moravia, Czech Republic
4.5 (65 reviews) Friday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #22 in South Moravian Region Speciality Museums
Outstanding museum, inspiring work
The Museum of Romani Culture was founded in 1991 as a non-profit organisation at the initiative of Roma intellectuals. Since 2005, the Museum of Romani Culture has become a state contributory organization of Ministry of Culture. It is an unique institution worldwide. Since the beginning, the Museum has primarily built collection funds (25 000 collection items) documenting the Romani culture and history. The original historical items – part of the collection are presented in the permanent exhibition called The Story of the Roma / Le Romengero drom. Apart from the permanent exhibition, the Museum offers a wide range of temporary exhibitions to the public. It also organizes the public events – the annual Museum Night, lectures and meetings, concerts or books promotions. The Museum of Romani Culture is also the administrator of the memorials in former so called gypsi camps Lety u Písku and Hodonín u Kunštátu.
Address
67, Bratislavská 246, Brno 602 00 Czech Republic
Mobile
Website
http://www.rommuz.cz
Working hours
Monday :
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Friday, May 10, 2024, 6:41
User Ratings
4.5 based on (65 reviews)
Reviews
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4Ágnes K 5:00 PM Feb 27, 2020
Important museum, although not the best presented
I learned a lot from both the permanent (history of the Romani people) and the temporary (Romani music) exhibition. They are a little bit exoticizing and othering the Roma, but I see that this is hard to avoid when wanting to present a diverse culture to potentially ignorant outsiders like myself. We come with too little background knowledge. A more practical and maybe bigger problem is that the museum is overwhelming, hard to take in because of too many objects and too much text crowded in a small space with poor lighting. With the written English guide it is very hard to follow the permanent exhibition, which description belongs where (maybe I should have chosen the audio guide), but it seems that the Czech inscriptions are also so many and crowded on so small surfaces that it seems hard to take in even if you read Czech.
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5Robert O 5:00 PM Jun 17, 2017
Every European should visit
The Romani people started moving from India towards Europe approximately 1000 years ago. They have been part of the European constellation for centuries. Still few Europeans -including myself- know anything about them and are mainly guided by prejudice. The museum is providing a vivid account of the culture of the Romani in Europe, as well as its repression. At one point in history -under Habsburg rule- it was allowed to kill Romani men! All Romani were outlawed. Other rulers like Maria Theresia, but also the communist authorities after 1948 tried to assimilate the Romani. Like the Jews Hitler tried to exterminate the Romani all together. A very tragic history - well documented and linked to the present. Entrance fee: 80 Crowns (students and people over 60 - 40 Crowns) includes an audio device (in Englis or German). The museum is located in a neighborhood where many Romani live.
