In Lidice today, the renovated spaces of the Lidice Memorial Museum were opened

LIDICE - After eight months, the renovated spaces of the Lidice Memorial Museum were opened today in Lidice, Kladno region. However, interested visitors could only view it today, as the museum will be closed again on Friday. Workers from the Military History Institute will begin installing exhibits there. "We will try to have the museum open on June 10 for the anniversary of the Lidice tragedy," said Milouš Červencl, the director of the Lidice Memorial, to ČTK.
The reconstruction of the original museum from 1962 cost 42 million crowns. The largest amount was provided by the Ministry of Culture, the Czech-German Fund for the Future contributed 3.2 million crowns, and 1.2 million came from European funds.
In the threefold enlarged spaces of the museum, visitors will find several preserved items from the destroyed village and will be introduced to audiovisual entries and historical documents. "It is not necessary for everything in the museum to be described in detail, as the exhibits will be linked to a book and DVD. More than on factual information, we will focus on the experience of the visitors," said Pavel Štingl, the exhibition's author, director, and documentarian, to ČTK.
The first provisional museum was opened in Lidice in 1947 with the beginning of the construction of the new village. In 1962, a museum was established there, the reconstruction of which began on June 12 last year. In the 1980s, a new large museum began to be built in Lidice, the construction of which was halted in 1989, and four years later, the reinforced concrete monstrosity was demolished.
The Nazis leveled the Central Bohemian Lidice to the ground on June 10, 1942. There were 192 men, 203 women, and 98 children living in Lidice. Only 143 women and 17 children survived the tragedy. The men were executed, the women were taken to concentration camps, and the children were sent for re-education.