Hidden Middle Ages exhibition in Bílovec Chateau

It’s a long-term cooperation with the city with the aim of finding the use and gradually restoring the Bílovec chateau, which is the dominant feature of the city.
The first stage of the renovation of the chateau is a new exhibition in the basement of the chateau.
The name of the exhibition “Hidden Middle Ages” is supposed to evoke the journey the visitor will undergo if they want to uncover the history of a place several centuries away, which has left a mark in the Bílovec chateau. The concept of the architectural approach is determined by the segmentation, depth of space and the historical footprint of castle structures. The tour route starts at the highest point of the basement, gradually descends, dragging the visitor deeper into the bowels of the cellar space, only to climb back to the castle courtyard at the end. From the construction-historical point of view, the concept and direction of the route is also a journey back in time, from the present to the past all the way to the Gothic spaces at the lowest point of the route.
The proposed exposition minimizes interventions in the valuable interior of the cellar, on the contrary, the selected materials, colours and technologies have the task of accentuating valuable building and other elements. The main interactive element of the exhibition is light, which the visitor can partially control and search for architectural relics of earlier construction stages.