In the Jubilee Colony, the first museum opened in the Ostrava district of Jih

Ostrava - In the most populous part of Ostrava, Jih, the first museum in the district opened today in the Jubilee Colony. The apartment exhibition will allow visitors to learn about life in the workers' colony at the end of the 1930s. The opening of the museum is the first of many major events that the city has planned this year in collaboration with the districts to celebrate the centenary of the founding of so-called Greater Ostrava. Interested parties can visit the museum in a 1+1 apartment with a toilet and pantry on Slezská Street.

The apartment features wooden floors and doors with brass handles, a replica of a tiled stove, a sideboard, and a wash table in the kitchen, while the room has a wooden secretary, and other accessories include a wooden washboard, a metal bathtub, plates, and a sewing machine made in Ostrava. There is also a historically styled bedroom. The museum includes an access hallway with an exhibition of period photographs and explanations about the history of the Jubilee Colony.

The apartment museum is expected to gradually expand with additional exhibits in the future. "We will try to adapt the exhibition to resemble living conditions in 1939. Although it will be a long-term effort, as acquiring everyday items from that time is quite complex, we need to wait until we can secure something," said chronicler Petr Lexa Přendík, who is responsible for building the museum. According to him, most of the apartment's furnishings consist of donated items.

During today’s museum opening, interested parties can also obtain the first stamp for the game card of the game "In the Footsteps of Greater Ostrava" from a doppelgänger of the mayor of interwar Ostrava, Jan Prokeš. Players will gradually be able to visit all five Ostrava districts, where seven independent municipalities previously existed.

The Jubilee Colony, where the museum is located, consists of a complex of buildings, more than 20 of which are historically protected. It is one of the historically most valuable objects in the district. The Jubilee Colony is situated between Závodní, Edisonova, Dvouletky, and Zlepšovatelů streets. It was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Vítkovice Ironworks and the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic, and it exemplifies workers' housing in the region in the 1920s and 1930s. Further information about this unique location can also be found on the newly launched website www.jubilejnikolonie.cz.

"The uniqueness of the most beautiful colony in the Ostrava-Karviná coal district was the reason for the establishment of the museum. So that visitors can get an idea of how our ancestors lived and what housing looked like at that time," stated Deputy Mayor Markéta Langrová (ANO). The museum will be open every Tuesday from 15:00 to 18:00. Interested parties can reserve a tour on the Jubilee Colony website or at the reception of the Komorní Club and the K-TRIO Cultural House.

The so-called Greater Ostrava was formed by merging seven Moravian municipalities into one entity. As of January 1, 1924, Moravská Ostrava, Vítkovice, Přívoz, Mariánské Hory, Zábřeh nad Odrou, Hrabůvka, and Nová Ves merged into a single municipality under the official name Moravská Ostrava. The new city had nearly 114,000 inhabitants and was, after Prague and Brno, the third most populous in Czechoslovakia; it is still the third most populous city in the Czech Republic.