13. May 2026

Programme of the Mining Museum Příbram

On Saturday, 13 June from 16.00 to 18.00, the Mining Museum Příbram in the premises of the Anna Mine will come alive with the atmosphere of a medieval mining settlement. Visitors will see demonstrations of traditional crafts, such as gold panning, hemp rope making, the work of a miner's blacksmith or the production of leather items. There will also be demonstrations of the sealing of period documents. Pupils of the Březové Hory Primary School will perform a theatre performance.

The programme will culminate with the opening of the exhibition "From the history of Příbram and mining activity in the work of Jan Čaka".

The exhibition will present the history of mining in Příbram from prehistoric times to the second half of the 20th century in the work of the writer, graphic artist and expert on the region Jan Čaka. The exhibition will be officially opened on Saturday, 13 June at 4 pm.

It will be on display until 31 October, every Saturday-Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm. An exception will be the weekend of 27-28 June, when the exhibition will be closed for technical reasons.

Jan Čaka

(* 12 June 1929 Prague † 2 September 2018 Příbram)

Artist and writer

Everyone has a home, a region that they know intimately and feel comfortable in. For Jan Čaka, this place was the mining town of Příbram, of which he became an honorary citizen in 2009, and the surrounding Brdy region with its many interesting localities. To Jan Čák we owe a comprehensive and deeply impressive picture of the local landscape in terms of geography, history, ethnography, art and other aspects, as well as mining traditions. In his work, then, artistic talent happily met with the art of storytelling, spurred by the author's lifelong passion for the beauty of the past and for capturing the problems of the present.