For the project of the largest depot in the region, Vysočina will pay 2.69 million CZK

Jihlava – The Vysočina Region will pay 2.69 million korunas (excluding VAT) for the project documentation for the construction of a new museum depository in Pelhřimov. This is based on information in the public procurement journal. According to earlier statements from the region, the largest regional depository is intended to serve all regional collecting organizations. Preliminary construction costs exceed 300 million korunas. Construction could start in the spring of next year.

Seven interested parties applied for the contract. The winner is the company Artprojekt Jihlava. The offered price was 70 percent decisive for the winner, while the experience of the project's chief engineer accounted for 30 percent.

The depository is to be located on K Silu Street, where the former workshops of the Pelhřimov secondary school are situated. These workshops will be demolished before the depository is built. The region wants to build the depository, provided it receives funding from the Integrated Regional Operational Programme.

"We are still waiting for the approval of the operational program and the subsequent announcement of calls. The last information from the grant provider indicated that the program should be approved in April. Unfortunately, we are not currently able to say what amount we intend to request. Everything will depend primarily on the still unknown conditions of future calls within the Integrated Regional Operational Programme 2021-2027," said Pavel Buňat from the regional department of culture, heritage conservation, and tourism in response to a query from ČTK.

According to the deputy governor for culture and heritage preservation, Roman Fabeš (Mayors for Vysočina), the main purpose of the construction is to concentrate all archaeological sub-collections into one place, as these are the fastest-growing and often problematic in terms of storage. Relocating collections from the current depository in Helenín could create a 20-year buffer, and similar buffers could be established in the depository in Třebíč. Both are currently 90 percent full. The Třebíč depository was established in 2009 by renovating a former vocational school for 42.5 million korunas, while the depository and technical education center established in the former military warehouses in Helenín cost the region 176 million korunas in 2013. Construction of a depository at the Horácká Gallery in Nové Město na Moravě is planned for this year.

The Pelhřimov depository, covering 3,850 m², will also include a modern conservation workshop and an archaeological workspace.