The Vladimír Preclík Museum was opened in the former castle granary in the castle park in 1998. The late Gothic building with its beautiful examples of the carpenter's craft houses exhibitions on a total floor space of 1500 m² on five storeys. All the storeys are used including the attic and basement areas. The main exhibition consists of more than a hundred works by the professor and sculptor Vladimír Preclík, presenting a selection of the sculptures, pictures and drawings created by this leading Czech sculptor from 1953 up to the present day. His works are exhibited on four floors, and you can also see short films about the sculptor. On the fifth floor – the Guest Storey – there is a different exhibition each year featuring work by guest artists.

 

"Originally I had agreed with Count Karel Schwarzenberg that we would set up a kind of Central European Centre at his castle in Orlík and construct a museum in the Baroque granary there. However, the amount of money required for the reconstruction work was so great that we had to abandon the project. Jan Kačer, who had once attended the ceramics school in Bechyně, told me that the owner of the castle there, Josef Šťáva, liked my sculptures and could offer me a five-storey gothic granary to house a permanent exhibition. This did in fact eventually happen. There are 120 works of mine there which are intended to provide an overview of what I have done during the course of my life. And I also do not have to worry about what will happen to my work when I am no longer here…"