Programme in the Chateau Garden and the Archbishop’s Chateau Kroměříž:
- 4–4.45 PM Blooms, leaves and mystery of the garden. Programme for the entire family. The Chateau Garden is full of delights, many of them remain hidden from plain sight. We will use special worksheets to identify some of the pants and look at the garden from a different point of view.
- 5 –5.45 PM Treasures contained in a one book. Presentation of a unique Baroque book of psalms, which combines spiritual texts with music, art, and nature-inspired motifs. Each psalm is expressed in words and music, as well as visually in a botanical illustration of a symbolic plant – this perfectly captures the Baroque ideal integrating faith, knowledge, and aesthetics. Just as the book crosses the boundaries of individual disciplines, we will also examine it from different perspectives – literary, musical, artistic, and scientific. And above all, at the end, we will hear its music and let it resonate.
Programme in the Kroměříž District Museum:
- 6.30–7 PM Flora around us. Presentation of widely available botanical atlases from the library of the Kroměříž District Museum, including explanation and practical demonstration how to use them.
- 6-9 PM Open library. You are welcome to visit the reading room of the museum library. Botanical books from the library’s collection will be on display throughout the event.
- 6–8 PM Living herbaria. Join us on a journey to the world of plants directly in the exhibition of the Story of the Mattioli Herbarium. Learn about plants in their natural form and in a form recorded in the Mattioli Herbaria, explore the connection between nature and science throughout the centuries.
- 7–7.45 PM MUDr. Aleš Hurdálek. Gold and numismatics. A presentation from the point of view of an avid numismatic will introduce you to gold as a coinage metal and how has it been used in coinage from ancient times to the present day.
- 7.45–8.30 PM Ing. Jan Videman. Gold, coins, alchemy. The presentation will focus on 700-year history of ducat minting in the Czech lands, including historical attempts to make gold through alchemy.