The Skuteč Regional Museum is preparing the exhibition Mr. Bajza's Colony, March 6, 2023, Skuteč.
Skuteč (Chrudim Region) – The Regional Museum in Skuteč in Chrudim Region will open the exhibition Colony by Mr. Bajza on Thursday. It will show almost a thousand exhibits that customers bought in First Republic stores. Part of the exhibits were donated by two local patriots. Museum director Libor Aksler told ČTK.
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Visitors to the exhibition, the title of which refers to Karel Poláček's book Bylo nas pět, will enter a pastry shop, a butcher's shop, a tobacconist's shop, a market place, and view fabrics and haberdashery, a tobacconist's shop. The colonial will offer the necessary household items. “The Colonial will contain a really large number of objects, approximately 950 pieces. This type of exhibition allows you to select things from depositories that are otherwise difficult to display,” said Aksler.
In the colonial there will be packaged foods, drugstores, hardware, china, glass and decorative items. In haberdashery, customers bought fabrics, clothes or ties, brooches, gloves, stockings and handbags. In the butcher shop, the museum installs imitations of meat and sausage products.
“The presentation of the market will be very varied, where there will be not only all kinds of crops, but also domestic animals, pigs, goats, rabbits, chickens, geese and ducks. Unfortunately, everything is stuffed , but as alive,” said Aksler.
Visitors can view period newspapers in the tobacconist's shop, where they can play the role of a tobacconist and sell goods. Historical scales will also be available, and it will be possible to recognize cans of spices by their smell. There will be a playset ready to play, which compares the historical object with its present-day alternative.
“The first presentation of an extensive collection of objects from the former First Republic stationery shop, which two true patriots donated to the museum collection some time ago, will be unique. once unsold and never used things, many small items for free time, for schoolchildren, for drawing and writing, as well as various decorative packaging, paper toys, sets of notebooks, notebooks and pads, pencils,” said the director of the museum.
The framework of the exhibition consists of a traveling part from the Moravian Regional Museum and its branch Children's Museum. Most of the authentic exhibits are from the actual museum's collections. “We supplemented them with loans from the Regional Museum in Chrudim and the East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice. The actual shops of the First Republic will remind you of the advertisements of local companies at the time. We will also remind you of what was used to pay in the shops at that time,” said Aksler. The exhibition will be accessible until May 28, he added.
