ECSO Exhibitions in 2021
‘Gardens and Gardeners of the Wallenstein Family’
1 November 2021 – 4 May 2022, Sarny Castle (2nd floor)
The poster exhibition ‘Gardens and Gardeners of the Wallenstein Family’ presents thirty splendid palaces and gardens, located in Duchcov, Jičín, Kozel, Mnichovo Hradiště and Prague, which belonged to this aristocratic family. Biographies of the gardeners who cared for them are also included for the first time. The exhibition pays special attention to the Dittrich family, which had a major contribution to the development of Czech horticulture in the 19th century.
The exhibition initiates collaboration between the Eduard Petzold European Centre for Garden Art at the Sarny Castle and the National Garden Culture Centre in Kroměříž. Exhibition available in Czech and Polish.
Organizer: National Heritage Institute (NPÚ), National Garden Culture Centre in Kroměříž, Czech Republic
Exhibition curator: Ph.D. Eng. Lenka Křesadlová
Collaboration: Jaromír Tlustý (State Regional Archives Litoměřice), Eng. Michaela Letá, Radim Vrla, MSc Jan Štětina
Polish Organizer: The Sarny Castle Trust, Eduard Petzold European Centre for Garden Art, Poland
Patronage: European Route of Historic Gardens
Editing: MSc Jacek Kuśmierski, MSc Łukasz Przybylak
Contact: ecso@zameksarny.pl
Previous ECSO exhibitions:
66 European Historic Gardens
1 May – 30 September 2021, Sarny Castle (2nd floor)
Welcome to the first poster exhibition organised by the Eduard Petzold European Centre for Garden Art on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the European Year of Historic Gardens!
The exhibition presents 66 sites received conservation funding from the European Commission in 1993. It was first displayed in Portugal in 2018 on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage and since then has travelled across continent. Sarny Castle is the first venue in Poland to host it in its 16th-century interiors. The European Route of Historic Gardens is the patron of the exhibition.
Curator: Rodrigo Dias (Lusíada University of Lisbon)
Translation and edition: Jacek Kuśmierski, Martin M. Sobczyk, Łukasz Przybylak