Program
Ceremonial welcome and opening of the Museum Night event
Ongoing guided tours of the Memorial Hall and the outdoor areas, with guides providing visitors with expert historical commentary.
Permanent Exhibitions
- The Period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Second Czechoslovak Resistance (1939–1945)
Additional Information
Visitors will be able to see both the outdoor areas and the courtyard of the dormitories, as well as, in particular, the interior of the Memorial Hall with its historical exhibition mapping the tragic period of the Protectorate during World War II (January 1940 – April 1945), when the Kounic University Dormitories served as a police prison under the authority of the Brno Gestapo headquarters. Czech patriots and members of the anti-Nazi resistance arrested by various Gestapo branches across Moravia were brought here. Executions of condemned resistance fighters also took place in the dormitory courtyard. In 1978, the Kounic University Dormitories were declared a national cultural monument, and in 1984 a Memorial Hall with a permanent historical exhibition was established there.