Ctěnice Castle attracts at the exhibition of Czech monuments | PRAGUE | News
Supervise the quality and price of craftsmanship, educate apprentices, organize master exams, but also defend the rights and interests of its members. She took care of all that since the Middle Ages association of artisans, also known as Bohemia. The Museum of the City of Prague boasts probably the largest collection of Czech objects in the world. It owns more than 600 original period pieces. Two hundred of the most interesting ones can be viewed by the public at an exhibition in the castle in Ctěnice.
Throughout history, the Czechs also performed representative, religious and social functions. For example, from the money that the craftsmen regularly collected among themselves, they supported widows, orphans or beginning members of Bohemia and their families. But the most important functions of the Czechs were related to trade.
The Czechs had their own hierarchy. So when, for example, a journeyman was to become a master, he had to pass a kind of high school diploma – perhaps a masterpiece like this.
Among the dozens of exhibits in the detailed exhibition, you will discover, for example, period ferules, cups, funeral shields or preserved banners of individual Czechs.
In Bohemia, craftsmen were grouped according to individual branches. For example, artistic guilds thus contained carvers, painters, goldsmiths, glaziers or bookbinders. However, because the Czech Republic applied various REGULATIONS in the past, which over time began to hinder technological development and the competitive environment, they were gradually abolished from the second half of the 18th century.