The collection documents the historical development of production of motor vehicles in particular the three most important automobile factories in Moravia: Zbrojovka Brno, Tatra Koprivnice, and the somewhat less well-known car-making factory Wikov (Wichterle & Kovarik) Prostejov. The collection has almost complete range of car brands ‘Z’. In the period between 1924 and 1936 Zbrojovka produced the following cars: The DISK (November 1924 - August 1924), Z18 (January 1926 - March 1930), Z9 (April 1930 - June 1932), Z4 I.-V. series (April 1933-1936), Z5 EXPRESS (April 1935 - October 1936), Z6 HURVÍNEK (April 1935 - October 1936). The fire truck TATRA 17/31 is a good example of Tatra Koprivnice production, its car-body was later modified by the automobile factory Hrček & Neugebauer located in Brno-Kralove Pole. Hrček & Neugebauer was at that time a very well-known company, specializing as one of the few in the rebuilding of passenger cars into fire trucks. The oldest car collection is the Austro-Daimler, made in 1910 in Wiener-Neustadt. This car served until 1937 to Mitrovsky aristocratic family. The collection and its exposition also contains unique cars from the relatively recent past: ŠKODA 720 is a prototype model that was being prepared for production to replace Skoda 1000 MB, EMA 1 is a very interesting prototype of an electro-mobile made in Brno at the Research Institute of Rotating Electrical Machines. The vehicle was intended for use as an ecological "runabout", in particular for driving in the city. At that time very successful long-term tests had been conducted but unfortunately this car has never been mass produced. The collection is complemented by a number of small authentic objects just to mention a few: complete set of fixtures and fittings of auto-mechanic’s workshop equipment AUTOMECHANIKA, Orzat’s device for measuring the CO and a welding acetylene generator. Both those devices were unique and atypical for their time (1930’s). The set of workshop fixtures and fittings comes from the firm Eduard JAHELKA, which was based in Prague street, No. 22 (now Štefánikova Street).

Curator of collections:
Mgr. Sylvie Dyková
tel.: 541 421 472
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