Museum of Ostrava

The Ostrava Museum is located in the beautiful Old Town Hall building, on Masaryk Square. This is the first museum in the city, it was founded in 1872. Museum collections now number more than a million units.

The museum has both changing exhibitions and permanent ones, for example, on the history of art, city development, as well as on the flora and fauna of the urban surroundings. A unique exhibit worthy of special attention of each visitor is the Mashkiv watch, reaching 225 cm in height. The astronomical clock has 51 functions and 4 parts, including the time dial, calendar, astronomical and planetary parts.