Regional, not international
Local workshops serving village parishes, not famous European masters.
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The sacred art museum of the Brno diocese, on Petrov hill beside the cathedral that crowns the city. The museum shows what the diocese gathered over centuries: icons, paintings, carved wood, liturgical vessels and embroidered vestments, some of it medieval. Much of it came from small Moravian churches that closed or could no longer keep it safe. That gives the collection a regional rather than an international character: this is local Moravian art, from workshops and craftsmen serving village parishes, not works by famous European masters. For anyone wanting to understand what religious life in the region looked like, this is the place. The museum is small and its hours may be limited, and the visit is short. Its real value is its position: you are on Petrov hill, so it folds naturally into the cathedral and its view over the city.
Local workshops serving village parishes, not famous European masters.
Some carvings and vessels predate the Renaissance.
The cathedral and its view over Brno in the same visit.
Petrov hill, beside the Cathedral of St Peter and Paul
Cathedral of St Peter and Paul'Petrov' on its hill: Brno's cathedral with 84-metre Neo-Gothic twin spires (1901 minute walk4.9
The Moravian MuseumCzechia's second museum in age and size (1817): the Moravian Museum in the Dietr1 minute walk4.6
Holy Trinity Column, BrnoA baroque column on the vegetable market in old central Brno, raised in the earl1 minute walk4.6
The Labyrinth under the Vegetable MarketA city beneath the city: the Vegetable Market, trading since the thirteenth cent2 minutes walk4.3
The Capuchin Crypt'As you are, we were — as we are, you will be': the crypt's famous greeting at i2 minutes walk4.7No. The museum is small and specialised, and its value is that it stands metres from Petrov Cathedral, which you will visit anyway. Treat it as a thirty- to sixty-minute addition to your climb up the hill rather than a destination in itself.
It is Brno's visual emblem and appears on the Czech ten-crown coin. It was built on a hill that had been a castle site, and its present neo-Gothic form with two slender spires dates from the early twentieth century. Its bells strike noon at eleven rather than twelve, a tradition tied to the Swedish siege of the city in 1645.