Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography

Address:

Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography
U Lípy House (map)
Náměstí Mikuláše z Husi (“Nicholas of Husi Square”)
Filipovská 72
Tábor (map)
Czech Republic (map)

Open:

open Monday – Friday, 10am–5pm
Entrance through confectioner's store/coffee bar.
Closed on all Saturdays.

Current exhibition

My heart I gave to a Czech,
My husband loves his country,
And I will raise my children
As strong sons of the homeland.

— Božena Němcová: My Country

Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography in Tábor, Museum of Czech Literature in Prague, and Božena Němcová Museum in Česká Skalice would like to invite you to this exhibition, commemorating the 130th anniversary of the death of Josef Němec.

“The children are my greatest concern.”

The lives of descendants of writer Božena Němcová, in their own words, and in photographs from the studios of Šechtl & Voseček, and others.

The exhibition was be opened by its curator, Yvetta Dorflová.
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm.
Exhibition will run until 31 March 2010.

Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography, U Lípy House,
Mikuláše z Husi Square, Filipovská 72, Tábor, Czech Republic.

From the opening day:

Exhibition was opened by Tomáš Rasl, grandson of photographer and curator of exhibition	In ground floor you will find photos from Bučina's trip to Subcarpatean Russia, 1936, and to Moravian Slovakia
In the basement you can find primarily photographs of Old Prague

About us:

Three generations of the Šechtl family have been photographically recording life in Tábor for the past 140 years. Over thirteen thousand glass plate negatives have been preserved, from the years 1864 to 1940. These plates document the changes in Tábor as well as many interesting people including Emperor Franz Josef, presidents T. G. Masaryk and E. Beneš, sculptor František Bílek, inventor František Křižík and musicians Oskar Nedbal, Josef Suk and Bohuslav Foerster.