RETROMUSEUM in Rašov
Wo die Vergangenheit eines tschechischen Dorfes lebendig bleibt
One Czech village, its whole life
Rašov has 246 inhabitants, 93 houses — and a museum that locals have been filling for thirty years with things that would otherwise have ended up in a skip. Grandfathers' tools, household equipment, school aids, hundreds of photographs. Together they form a portrait of an ordinary Moravian village — with names, house numbers and stories. What you see here happened, in some form, in thousands of villages across Central Europe.
What you will find here
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Crafts and workshops
Joiner, blacksmith, wheelwright, cobbler — the tools that kept a village running without electricity.
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Farming and husbandry
From hand tools to the first machines — and the collectivisation that ended private farming.
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Household and everyday life
Cooking, laundry, heating and sewing — everything done by hand before appliances took over.
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School and education
Textbooks, benches and penmanship — the museum sits inside the very school it tells about.
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The photo archive
Hundreds of photographs borrowed from local families — a visual chronicle of the village.
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Village life — clubs, traditions, events
A volunteer fire brigade since 1894, the parish fair, and everything the village did together.
Opening times
The museum opens on village occasions — the St James fair in July, 17 November (the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution), and other events. Outside these dates a visit can be arranged individually.
Current dates are posted on the village Facebook page.
Help preserve the memory of Rašov
The museum accepts donations of objects, loans of photographs and volunteer help. Every item is recorded with its donor and the house it came from.