Museum Night Beauty as a Goal

24.8.2021 - 24.9.2021

We invite you to Museum Night 2021!

24. 9. 2021 from 4 PM to 9 PM

The Most Museum Night 2021 is dedicated to sharpshooters and shooting art. Visitors to the museum night will witness traditional medieval "bird shooting," can participate in ceremonial shooting at a painted target, and meet members of today's sharpshooting societies.

The program in the museum area includes:

- ceremonial arrival of the sharpshooters

- ceremonial opening salute

- traditional medieval "bird shooting"

- shooting at a painted target for the public

- meeting with members of sharpshooting societies

- guided tour of the exhibition Beauty as a Goal

Part of the museum night is the opening of the exhibition of historical painted targets - Beauty as a Goal. Painted targets, as known from the bourgeois environment of the 18th to the early 20th century, are associated with the phenomenon of shooting clubs and urban sharpshooting societies, which during this period formed part of the club life of most Central European towns and cities. Although today painted targets are considered an example of "folk art," many of them were created by professional and often well-known regional artists. For example, for the C. k. Prague privileged sharpshooting corps, festive targets were painted by Mikoláš Aleš and Josef Mánes.

The exhibition mainly consists of painted targets from the collections of the Regional Museum and Gallery in Most, but painted targets from the collections of other museums in the Ústí Region will also be represented. Visitors will also become acquainted with other beautiful applied arts associated with sharpshooting societies, such as shooting trophies, decorations, porcelain, or glass. The foyer of the gallery is dedicated to a brief excursion into the history of urban corps and sharpshooting societies and will present a short history of the sharpshooters from Most and Litvínov. Here, visitors will be able to learn what the famous "bird shooting" used to be, how master, honorary, and royal shootings differed, how today's sharpshooting societies operate in the Czech Republic, and what today's painted targets look like.

Refreshments in the museum area are provided. Admission is voluntary.