Technical museum

The Technical Museum in Brno is a state institution under the Ministry of Culture, dedicated to the history of technology and industry. Its current home is in the Královo Pole district, after the museum had to move out of the historic Ursuline Monastery in the city center in the 1990s. The move was necessary because the Baroque monastery building had structural defects and also had to be returned to the order under restitution laws. After extensive renovation of the new site, the institution reopened in 1997.

The museum's history is closely tied to the industrial development of Moravia. As early as the 19th century, efforts were made to collect technical exhibits, but early initiatives such as the Moravian Trade Museum eventually abandoned their work on industrial history. The direct predecessor of today's museum was founded in 1936 as an archive for industrial and commercial history, though its development was interrupted by World War II. After the association was revived in the 1940s and a period as a branch of the National Museum in Prague, the Technical Museum in Brno was established as an independent institution on January 1, 1961.

In addition to its main site, the museum operates several branch locations that broaden the range of technology on display. These include a section of the Czechoslovak border fortifications in Šatov, a collection of public transit vehicles, and historic production sites such as an ironworks, a hammer mill, and various mills. These sites give visitors insight into different aspects of the region's technical and craft traditions.