The region began building a museum depot in Pelhřimov for 157 million crowns

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Pelhřimov – The Vysočina Region has begun constructing a joint museum depository at the site of the former school workshops in Pelhřimov, which will be managed by the Museum of Vysočina Pelhřimov (MVP). The construction will cost approximately 157 million crowns. According to the governor of Vysočina, Vítězslav Schrek (ODS and STO), it will take about two years. The depository will also be used by regional museums in Třebíč and Havlíčkův Brod for storing historical and archaeological artifacts.

The two-story building on K Silu street is intended to provide sufficient capacity for the growing collections. Regional museums have more than a million sets and items, and not all are stored under optimal conditions.

The construction work will be carried out by PKS. Additional costs will be associated with equipping the depository, which will also include study rooms and specialized laboratories for the Museum of Vysočina Pelhřimov. “A depository is not the same as a warehouse. It is a specific space with controlled temperature, humidity, dust levels, lighting, the method of item storage, and prevention against biological pests. There are rules for entering these spaces,” stated the deputy governor for culture, Roman Fabeš (Mayors for Vysočina). The region will still seek suppliers for the equipment costing several tens of millions of crowns.

The former workshops were transferred to MVP in 2010 with the intent of converting them into a depository.

In 2009, the region built a depository on Kosmáka street in Třebíč. An unused school building was repurposed for this purpose. Four years later, another depository was established in former military warehouses near the Secondary School of Applied Arts Jihlava-Helenín.