Museum and exhibitions

Discover the most significant pilgrimage site in the Czech Republic. Whether you are drawn to the mysterious underground, or upwards to the bells, whether you want to learn about the past or are interested in the present, you will find something for you.

Tours in the winter season must be arranged in advance, min. number of people is 5. As an alternative for individuals, we offer a tour with a borrowed text during this period. Information is available at the shop in the cloister.

Svatá Hora Museum

The permanent exhibition includes, among other things, historical artifacts found during archaeological research or the most precious garments for the miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary.

Price list:

• full admission 100 CZK/person

• students/seniors 70 CZK/person

• family admission 250 CZK/family

Opening hours:

Monday-Saturday

• October-April 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

• May-September 9:00 AM–5:00 PM

Sunday

• year-round 9:00 AM–5:00 PM

What will you discover in the museum?

Jesuits in the Czech Lands

The first room is dedicated to the statue of the Virgin Mary of Svatá Hora and the Jesuit order. Here is a map of the activities of the Jesuits in individual periods. On the screen, you will find a presentation about the Jesuit order in Bohemia, created by PhDr. Věra Smolová from the State District Archive Příbram, who participated in the museum's design.

Important events

The subsequent room presents on screens a set of unique building plans from the 17th century and photographs capturing various events on Svatá Hora. In the middle of the room are set Baroque doors that were found during reconstruction and subsequently restored. You can symbolically walk through them into the Baroque era. Beyond the doors begins a timeline of history in Bohemia from the beginning of Christianity, along with events on Svatá Hora.

Garments of the Virgin Mary of Svatá Hora

If you pass through the next corridor, you will find yourself in the main part of the museum, which was originally planned by the Jesuits as a crypt but was never used as such. The museum also features the garments of the Virgin Mary of Svatá Hora, which relate both to the given periods and to the date of the exhibits beneath them. Thus, from the oldest preserved ones, to the modern camouflage one that resulted from a children's competition in 2012.

Archaeological finds

At the end of the room, drainage channels are uncovered, as well as the discovery of a child's grave, which is older than the Baroque complex in terms of dating and belonged to the cemetery around the original chapel. The situations mentioned above were archaeologically uncovered and left in their original found state.

Baroque furnace

The exhibition continues down the stairs to one of the wells, where you will find information related to the water supply of Svatá Hora. The museum tour ends at the base of the discovered Baroque furnace, where you can view its reconstructed state. Plates on which hosts and wafers were baked are displayed at the furnace.