Czech Rural and Emigration Museum

Trail "People and their Landscape"

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This unconventional museum was established by the Rozmberk Society p.b.c. in 2007 with help of the local inhabitants. The museum is showing objects, exhibitions, and information on the region, its highlights, and history. The museum is housed in the former school in Kojakovice.

The museum focuses on the second half of the 19th century, a period of great changes. It does not show generalities but uses personal stories and objects to explain village life in that time. It shows the things people used and made and their local traditions and habits. This period also knew an exodus of people leaving Central Europe for the then-young United States. In our region, many people are unaware of this history; with our exhibitions, we try to revive this memory. This is done not only through stories of old but also through projects and in cooperation with today’s American descendants of yesterday’s emigrants.

Vitame v Muzeum Kojakovice     Kocar

You can find descendants of the Czech emigrants in many villages on the American Great Plains. Oxford Junction, Iowa, is such a place. Of its 150+ families today, about 105 have at least one Czech ancestor, and 55 of those emigrated from within 20 miles of Kojakovice! Oxford Junction is also the seat of the “Friends of the Rozmberk Society, Inc.”, our sister organisation.  

Our work includes professional genealogical research to show the links and connections within farm families and for descendants of emigrants looking for their roots. .

Opening hours Kojakovice Museum

June through September daily from 10 - 17, closed Thursdays.

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