Historical exposition is devoted to cultural history of Turnov and its vicinity. It focuses on prominent persons and important historical events associated with the region.<\/p>
At the beginning the visitors can see the Renaissance baptismal font from 1541 from St. Nicholas church, Turnov and late-Gothic St. Matthias statue.\u00a0 We commemorate priest and linguist Fortun\u00e1t Durych and Father Anton\u00edn Marek<\/strong> who was an important figure of Czech National Revival. The visitors can find information about many artists, musicians or writers who helped to shape the regional culture, such as musician V\u00e1clav Holan Rovensk\u00fd, writers Abigail Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1 and Lothar Such\u00fd, graphic artist Karel Vlk or <\/strong>sculptor and glyptic Josef Draho\u0148ovsk\u00fd.<\/strong><\/p>Turnov contributed two prominent historians to the modern Czech humanities – Josef Peka\u0159 and Josef V\u00edt\u011bzslav \u0160im\u00e1k<\/strong> and philosopher Jan Pato\u010dka<\/strong>. The exposition also includes travelling experiences of searcher for gold and gemstones \u010cen\u011bk Paclt<\/strong> and other adventurers from Turnov. Myslbek\u2019s bust of knight Anton\u00edn \u0160lechta commemorates the founder of the favorite Sedmihorky Spa Resort which is connected to the beginning of tourism in the Bohemian Paradise.<\/p>The exposition is filled up with lots of historical documents, paintings and photographs of the town and its vicinity.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":9427,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzeum-turnov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expozice\/9543\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzeum-turnov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expozice\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzeum-turnov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expozice\/"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzeum-turnov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expozice\/9543\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14939,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzeum-turnov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expozice\/9543\/revisions\/14939\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muzeum-turnov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9427\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muzeum-turnov.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}