The extensive area of the museum is one of the most popular and best open-air museums in our country. The vast area documents the buildings, the customs and the traditions of Wallachian folk culture. The open-air museum is the venue of many periodic cultural events.

3 sightseeing tours:

Wooden town – a collection of original and reconstructed houses, according to the design by painter and graphic artist Bohumír Jaroněk. Built from 1925, the collection includes a reproduction of reeve´s house from Velké Karlovice, a reconstructed wooden church from Větřkovice, three original houses from Rožnov Square, and a reproduction of the pub from the same place. The collection is completed by a cemetery and a number of small agricultural buildings.

Mlýnská dolina – a collection of five technical structures – a mill, a sawmill, and a washboard from Velké Karlovice, an oil press from Brumov, and a copy of an iron mill from Ostravice. All structures are operable.

Wallachian village – the largest collections, currently including nearly 70 timber-framed houses that document the settlement of Wallachia with its location and equipment. Most of the houses are furnished with original equipment and are publicly accessible. The exhibition also includes a collection of sheep-keeping structures used for breeding the local Wallachian sheep.

At the border of Štramberk and Kopřivnice is the Sun trail with astrological symbolism and meditation places. The trail forms serpentine curves on the slope of the White Mountain of Beskydy, and its 12 stops, representing the twelve Zodiac signs, explain the astrological symbols, legends and relations. The trail also reminds of the constellations of the individual Zodiac signs. There is a word hidden at every stop – written on the bench, engraved in stone, etc. The 12 words then form a message from John Lennon.

The mountain town of Štramberk, with its unique collection of preserved folk architecture, is situated close to the city of Kopřivnice in the centre of the Štrambersk highlands in the foothills of the Beskydy Mountains. Štramberk is called Moravian Bethlehem for its picturesque appearance. Štramberk itself offers a lot of travel destinations: the ruins of Trúba Castle with a 13th century observation tower, the National Orchard at Kotouč with the Šipka cave, a museum of the painter Zdeněk Burian, folk architecture of Wallachian timber houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, the museum of Novojičínsko, the White Mountain observation tower, a botanic garden and arboretum (with a continuous exposition of wetland and xerophilic vegetation). There are local species of endangered and rare plants under special protection. You can also find a stone labyrinth here, and alpinists can visit the local climbing walls in the former quarry. Other interesting sights include Aqua Terra – a mini ZOO, with a permanent exhibition of aquarium and terrarium animals with the largest freshwater aquarium in Štramberk. The exhibition is situated in the square under the stepped path to Trúba Castle. Štramberk is famous for its aromatic gingerbread product called “Štramberk ears", baked here for centuries in memory of the legendary victory of the Štramberk Christians over the Mongolian hordes on 8 May 1241. Štramberk is crossed by the Lachian educational trail. This trail, beginning and ending at the Štramberk railway station, offers several stops, the first of which is called the National Orchard. This starting point is recommended to motorised visitors, as there is a parking lot nearby. The total length of this trail is 6 km and includes 13 stops with information boards about points of interest in the locality.

TATRA Technical Museum: the largest collection of the Kopřivnice automotive factory and its products, later famous for its TATRA brand. Nearly sixty passenger cars and lorries from all production periods of the plant are exhibited together with chassis, engines, models, designs, trophies from competitions, period photographs and various rarities. A lot of interesting and exhaustive information is provided by multilingual video boxes with film sequences of the automotive gems.

Exhibition of Emil and Dana Zátopeks: a very modern exhibition on the premises of the Technical Museum offers, in addition to an overview of the sporting successes of the couple, a collection of authentic photographs, medals, trophies, plaques, souvenirs, Zátopek´s racing jacket and starting number from the legendary Olympic Games in London, and private items of the Zátopeks. The exhibition further includes a documentary filmed in cooperation with Finnish Television, cut to a length of 14 minutes and six seconds – the record time the greatest runner of his day needed to cover the 5-km race distance.

Lachian Museum in Šustal Villa: do not miss a permanent exhibition reminding of the local former pot-making factory, and the famous natives of Kopřivnice, including but not limited to the painter and illustrator Zdeněk Burian.

Reeve's House Museum: the museum shows the local way of life for people in the past, including their folk customs and traditions. You will also see how our ancestors travelled. It was here in 1850 that Ignace Šustala, the reeve's son, began to make his first buggies and carriages, for which he deserves mention among the famous natives of Kopřivnice.

The large castle yard was founded around the mid-13th century and at present represents a significant cultural monument, known for its annual knights' festival and periodic weekend programmes featuring historic and folklore music and poetry. Observation lookout was built in the palace in 1993. The lookout offers unique vistas of the entire Radhošť and Moravian-Silesian Beskydy Mountain ranges, including many foothill towns in clear weather. A great attraction for all visitors is represented by the deer parkwith fallow deer and mouflon, founded by Bishop Prusinovský, which covers an area of 65 ha. The Hukvaldy name is inseparably linked to the life and work of composer Leoš Janáček. In the early 20th century he began to periodically visit the place in the summer and later bought a house here, today a Memorial of the Life and Work of Leoš Janáček. Hukvaldy inspired his operatic work, with the local atmosphere reflected in his chorus compositions set to musical poems by Petr Bezruč. The Hukvaldy Castle premises and the adjacent deer park has for several years been the host venue of the Janáček's Hukvaldy Music Festival.

The largest mining museum in the Czech Republic with the widest range of complimentary services offers its visitors a day trip amongst monuments scattered in the natural environment. The museum is located on the south-eastern foothills of Landek Hill, overlooking the confluence of the Odra and Ostravice rivers. Landek was announced as a national natural monument in 1992. It represents a world-known locality with regard to geology, archaeology, history, natural science and mining. The connection between the mining museum as a technical monument and Landek Hill as a natural monument with its rich vegetation and wildlife lends this location its unique and attractive nature. Landek is further reknowned for its unique discovery of the Landecká Venus – a 46 mm high torso of a woman engraved in bloodstone. The slim, “cubist” shape of the Venus makes it different from typical Paleolithic Venuses. The Landek Venus is the only slim Venus in Europe. The museum was opened for the public on 4 December 1993, the day of St. Barbara, the patron saint of miners.

Exhibition:

Exhibition villa

The exposition in the exhibition villa is a suitable beginning of the tour around the area – but can also be visited as the last stop on your journey. Visitors can find broader relations between the individual exhibits seen in the other parts of the museum here, and thus multiply their impression of the visit. The building includes several separate exhibitions that together represent a cross section through the several-thousand-year history of Landek and mining in the Ostravsko region in general.

Underground exhibition – Anselm mine cultural monument

This unique exhibition is situated in the authentic historical mine of Anselm, where visitors are transported to the pit by mining cage from a historic building in the style of industrial art nouveau. Although the way down is only a few metres long, it gives the visitors an idea of how the miners got to their place of work each day.

Mine rescue exposition

The Landek exposition of mining rescue is the largest exhibition of its kind in the world. The exposition will introduce you to the highly demanding and risky activity, without which the underground work would not be possible, and the technology used by the rescuers to move around in an environment that is in some respects more hostile than the cosmic space or ocean depths.

Exhibits and exhibitions freely deployed in the area

The open-air exhibits capture the local population's activities from the Stone Age in the form of a prehistoric settlement, through the boom of mining represented by the typical industrial architecture, to the 20th century mining technology. Rather than a museum in the classical sense of the word, this exhibition is kind of combination of an indoor and an open-air museum.

The Ostrava zoological garden was established in 1951. Its area of 100 ha is home to nearly 300 animal species. African ungulates (giraffes and zebras), birds of prey and parrots, chimpanzees, lemurs, elephants, hippopotamus and many other interesting animals are in the focus of interest of all visitors. In the summer months hawker performances are shown here, while in winter you can observe the evening feeding of elephants. Weather permitting the zoo premises is even suitable for cross-country skiing in winter. Another attraction is the seasonal commented animal feeding, evening tours with a guide, or many other associated events, primarily but not only for children. There are also a couple of play corners for children on the zoo grounds. In the summer of 2007 a Botany Park was opened here, offering its visitors 2 new botany paths as a direct continuation of the zoo exhibition. A year later new enclosures were built for Rowan birds and red pandas. The zoo also offers a night animal exhibition and the first sea aquarium. In 2009 a new exhibition called “Little Amazon” was opened to show, inter alia, dwarfed monkeys and tropical species of spiders and frogs. Children will certainly appreciate the new playground with attractive play items.

ZOO Zlín is the third most frequented zoological garden in the country. The zoo (52 ha) is situated in a natural area with more than 1,100 tree and decorative plant species.

The tour around the ZOO

takes 6 to 8 hours. It not only includes the exhibitions themselves, but also animal feeding and other programmes. The less demanding circuit in the upper part of the zoo can be covered in 2.5 hours. The short tour includes part of the South American exhibitions, the seal exhibition, the tropical Yucatan hall, Lipizzan horse stables, a park in the surroundings of the Lešná Château, terrariums in the château basement, the primates pavilion, an exhibition of gorillas and penguins, exotic birds and a pavilion of African ungulates.

Lešná Château

The tour around the château will take 45 minutes.

Château park and children's attractions.

(Medium-demand tourist trip) By car from Trojanovice via Kunčice and Čeladná to Ostravice (approx. 20 km). From the railway station at Ostravice (M) – Ostravice, Mazák – continue along the unmarked bitumen road to the Šance dam (yellow) – Pod Čuplem (yellow) – Kobylanka (yellow) – Lysá hora

Route length 10 km. The climb will take 2 hours. 20 min. The yellow tourist route uses the former educational trail around the National nature reserve of the Mazácký primeval forest with an area of 62 ha. The territory documents the natural forest growth of the fir and beech, or spruce and beech vegetation stage. The forest provides favourable habitats to many rare plants and animals. Lysá hora is sometimes called the Queen of the Moravian Silesian Beskydy Mountains. Lysá hora overlooks the unique mountain ranges and valleys of the Beskydy, the Jeseníky, and as far as the Western and High Tatras. The top of Lysá hora carries a meteorological station, a TV transmitter, the SKI mountain chalet, Šantán refreshment kiosk, the Lysá hora mountain chalet and the Kameňák hostel.

We recommend an afternoon of relaxation beside the water of the Baška reservoir or the Olešná reservoir!

By car to Frenštát pod Radhoštěm (or on foot – circa 4 km)

Frenštát p. R. – Velký Javorník – blue route

Blue route, length 7.5 km, vertical distance 510 m. The trail starts in náměstí Míru Square and continues along Jandovo stromořadí Street, Příčnice Street in the direction to Papratná and Bartošky, and further to the saddle between the Big and the Small Javorník. From there, less than one kilometre is left to reach the peak of Big Javorník (Velký Javorník). On the way back you can also take the blue route to Padolí, where you find a mountain chalet, and further down the yellow route to the railway station at Veřovice (5 km in total). Another option is represented by the red route towards the Small Javorník (Malý Javorník, 840 m above sea level), and further along the blue route beside Kyčera (875 m above sea level) as far as the mountain saddle of Pindula, with the trendy Bandit Chalet (Zbojnická koliba) and a bus stop (5 km in total).

Frenštát p. R. – Velký Javorník – green route

Green trail, length 6 km, vertical distance 510 m. The green trail starts in the town centre and continues along the path to the Vlčina Hotel at Horečky and the forest trial to Plesová (610 m above sea level), and from there a climbing trail to the top of Velký Javorník (918 m above sea level). There you will find a mountain chalet and nice vistas of the town and the surrounding mountains, best visible in the afternoon. You can return around the ski jumps.