Harvest Festival at Kouřim Open-Air Museum
Dožínky ve skanzenu v Kouřimi
Fee required
Parking available
Step back into the 19th century and experience a vibrant harvest festival at Kouřim Open-Air Museum, filled with traditional crafts, folk music, dance, and ancient customs.

🌾 Step back into the 19th century for a traditional harvest festival at Kouřim Open-Air Museum.
🎉 Experience a day filled with folk customs, music, dance, and traditional crafts, celebrating the end of the harvest season.

Why Go

🎶 Enjoy a harvest procession with music, singing, and dancing
💃 Learn traditional folk dances
🍞 Witness bread baking and grain harvesting
🔨 See demonstrations by blacksmiths, stonemasons, and weavers
🌿 Discover straw decoration making, herbalism, and liqueur crafting
📚 Learn about historical diet, education, and folk customs through engaging discussions and documentaries on traditional crafts.

Hours

🗓️ The festival takes place on August 16, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
🚶‍♀️ Estimated visit duration: 3 hours.

Cost

💰 Standard price: 200 CZK
📉 Reduced price: 90 CZK (for children 6-15, students, seniors 65+, ISIC, EYCA, EUROBEDS, Green Card ČSOP holders)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family price: 490 CZK (2 adults + max. 3 children 6-15)
🆓 Free for children under 6, children from children's homes, ZTP, ZTPP, AMG, ITIC cardholders, and members of Polish and Slovak open-air museum associations.

Why Avoid

⚠️ While the museum grounds are wheelchair accessible, the interiors of most historical folk architecture buildings unfortunately are not.

Getting There

🚌 The town of Kouřim is accessible by rail and bus, located on Prague Integrated Transport routes.
🚶‍♀️ The museum is approximately 2 km from the train station and 400 m from the nearest bus stop.

🅿️ Parking

🅿️ Parking for cars and buses is available in front of the museum entrance.
💸 Parking fees may be collected occasionally by the City of Kouřim.
🚴‍♀️ Bicycle parking is also available within the museum grounds.

Toilets

🚻 Barrier-free toilets are available on the museum premises.

🐕‍🦺 Visiting with Dogs

🐶 Dogs are welcome but must be on a leash and should wear a muzzle.

Managed By

🏛️ Muzeum lidových staveb v Kouřimi (Kouřim Open-Air Museum), part of the Regional Museum in Kolín.