What´s on
2026
Shrovetide (Saturday 7 February)
Shrovetide customs, masked procession through the village, competition to find the best mask, demonstrations of the production of specialities made from locally slaughtered pigs and their sale. The Burial of the Bass Ceremony.
Easter in the Haná region (Saturday 4 April)
Traditional Easter and springtime customs, decorating Easter eggs, braiding willow plaits, baking hot cross buns and a performance by a children’s choir.
Traditional carpentry (Saturday 18 July)
A presentation of a traditional folk craft. Planing, trimming and other log processing using special carpentry tools and implements.
Horseplay (Sunday 8 August)
A special programme for children – a return to the past with children’s games and entertainment from the times of our great-grandparents. Horse rides, archery, art workshop, fencing performance, a demonstration of dog-assisted therapy, face painting, physical activities for young and old.
Harvest Festival in Hanakia (Saturday 29 August)
A folk festival at the end of harvesttime with demonstrations of traditional folk customs and traditions. The programme is to feature the tying of the last sheaf, a harvest procession and the ceremonial handing over of the harvest wreath.
Autumn on a farm in Haná (Saturday 12 September)
Get acquainted with the everyday life and work of our ancestors on a farm in Hanakia at the time of the Indian summer and the approaching autumn.
Hanakian Christmas (Saturday 28 November)
An authentic Christmas atmosphere on a Hanakian farm. Baking Christmas confectionery, a demonstration of a Christmas Eve table and a presentation of traditional Advent and Christmas customs and traditions. Guided tours in the form of living history.
1 Mai – 1 November
Hanakian folk dress or folk costume from the Blatsko region over the course of history
Hanakian folk attire or Blata folk costume through the transformations of time – the exhibition is to present various types of Hanakian folk attire (festive clothes, work clothes, men’s clothes, women’s clothes, children’s clothes) and their transformation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against the example of what is known as the Blata variant of folk costume.
Lunch break 12:00 noon – 12:30 p.m.
Folk Costume Consultation - 18 July, 8 August, 29 August and 12 September.
Leading experts in the folk costume of the Haná region – Jarmila Vítoslavská and Bronislava Millá – will initiate visitors into the production, secrets and motifs of the Haná folk costume. The folk costume consultation centre will be open from May to September on the first Saturday of the month.
