The new exhibition at the South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice is dedicated to music, its creators, performers and teachers who worked in South Bohemia. In addition to several well-known personalities, such as Ema Destinnová or the Jeremiáš family, many others lived and created here, who are almost or completely forgotten today. Enter the world of music, the world of composers and their work. Get to know musical instruments and their production and listen to how some of them sound. Get to know the music that has crossed the borders of South Bohemia.
The exhibition commemorates both musical personalities with ties to South Bohemia and musical instruments from the collections of the South Bohemian Museum, including a selection of various types and types of instruments, such as nail violins, pošetky, breitolina or heckelfon. There is also a collection of instruments from the Český Krumlov Band of the Schwarzenberg Grenadier Guards and glass houses from the glassworks in Annín.
Visitors will be able to play recordings of the sounds of several instruments and see if they can recognize them. There is an interactive station for little musicians.
The instruments are complemented by samples of original collection notes of the presented artists and their personal belongings, such as costumes and theatrical accessories of Ema Destinnová or items from her household in Stráž nad Nežárkou.
The exhibition also includes a reminder of the manufacturers and repairers of musical instruments who worked in South Bohemia, and a glimpse into the workshop with a sample of a disassembled instrument ready for renovation.
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