What´s on
2025
Shrovetide (Saturday 22 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 19 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 12 July)
A presentation of a traditional folk craft. Planing, trimming and other log processing using special carpentry tools and implements.
Harvest Time in Hana (Saturday 2 August)
Mowing with a scythe, clearing with a winnow. Harvesting and threshing cereal grain, scything with a cradle scythe, binding into sheaves, stacking sheaves in stooks, a demonstration of period machinery, threshing with a hand flail, threshing with a historic threshing machine.
Horseplay (Sunday 24 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. Craft fair, the Studio bez Kliky Theatre. Listen and dance to the group Isbina.
Autumn on a farm in Haná (Saturday 13 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 29 November)
The genuine Christmas atmosphere of a Hanakian homestead at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Baking Christmas confectionary, Hanakian customs and traditions, Christmas fair. A demonstration of a Christmas Eve table and the presentation of traditional Advent and Christmas customs and habits.
Permanent exhibition
May – September
The Kameníčkův Homestead
A tour of the residential and farm areas of the Kameníčkův Homestead dating back to 1876, an orchard with historical varieties of trees and barns . The individual rooms at the homestead are furnished with rustic furnishings from the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. Agricultural machinery and equipment dating back to the 1830s and 1840s can be seen in the barns .
20 June – 30 September
Hanakian folk dress or folk costume from the Blatsko region over the course of history
The exhibition is to present various types of Hanakian folk costume (Sunday best, work clothes, costume for men, women and children) and their transformation over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against the example of the Olomouc-Litovel (“Blatsko”) variants of folk costumes. The opening of the exhibition is to be held at 17:00 on 19 June.
Educational activities are prepared for adults and children alike at all events, during which visitors can become acquainted with folk customs and traditions and try their hand at traditional crafts and methods, the production of unfired bricks and the threshing of grain with flails.
Folk Costume Consultation - 12 July, 2 August, 24 August and 13 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.
