The museum was founded in 2001 as a branch of the Sokolov Museum in the Gothic-Renaissance house at No. 211 in Pluhova Street and is adjacent to the so-called Plough House. On June 1, 2012, the museum was transferred to the administration of the Horní Slavkov Municipal Cultural Center.The museum has 8 exhibition spaces, which are filled with the following permanent exhibitions: mineralogy, history of mining, tinsmithing, porcelain, history of the city (including its devastation). The museum also includes rooms where short-term exhibitions are held.
Museum courtyard
ART-HISTORICAL EXHIBITION
The original part of the museum exhibition, realized in its current form in the nineties. Art-historical collections reflecting the social, cultural and spiritual history of Cheb and the Cheb region from the Middle Ages to the present.
PEACEFUL AND TURBULENT CHEB REGION
Part of the museum exhibition newly opened in 2007. It focuses on the history of the city and its surroundings during the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition dedicated to the history of the city tries to capture the development of this young spa town during the approximately 200 years of its existence.
BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHEB
Since April 4, 2009, the newly installed entrance part of the permanent exhibition has been open to the public on the ground floor of the exhibition building of the Cheb Museum. As the name of the exhibition suggests, it is the oldest history of Cheb and the Cheb region in a historical context from the 7th to the beginning of the 15th century.
THE WALLSTEIN CIRCUIT
The Wallenstein Circuit forms a thematically coherent part of the tour route focused on the personality of Albrecht von Wallenstein and the related events of the Thirty Years' War. The central space of the circuit is Wallenstein's death chamber, in which the generalissimo of the imperial armies was murdered on February 25, 1634.
Photo 1-3: Cheb Museum