Fenomén Felkl

The Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky u Prahy and the Geographical Section of the Faculty of Science of the Charles University organize an exhibition on the occasion of the 202nd anniversary of birth and 132th anniversary of the death of Jan Felkl, the founder and owner of the globe factory in Roztoky u Prahy.

The Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky u Prahy and the Geographical Section of the Faculty of Science of the Charles University organize an exhibition on the occasion of the 202nd anniversary of birth and 132th anniversary of the death of Jan Felkl, the founder and owner of the globe factory in Roztoky u Prahy.

The exhibition presents the family company J. Felkl and son (1854–1952), which has been active in Roztoky near Prague for almost 100 years. They also printed the first globes in national languages, not only Czech, but also Hungarian and Polish. They held two patents for special decomposing globes. But they also offered special devices such as tellurium, sololunariums, planetariums and armillary spheres. They exported to Europe and overseas. Their globes have been awarded at many world exhibitions (Paris, Vienna) and national exhibitions (Prague, Lviv, Melbourne). Apart from the company and the family, the exposition presents the factory and working conditions, the workshop manager and workers, domestic and foreign authors of the company, but above all globes in various language versions, tellurium, press stones, original instruction booklets and original period advertising.

Jan Felkl and son deserve our attention, as it still represents honest Czech craftsmanship combined with a high level of teaching aids in the world.

More than 60 globes made in 1855–1947 will be presented, as well as plastic models of maps, craft tools, lithographic plates and lithographic press, archival documentation of the company's production and authentic photographs.

Subjects for the exhibition were lent: Map Collection of Charles University, National Technical Museum, City Museum Chrast, Museum of the City of Prague, Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians in Strahov, private collectors and others.

The exhibition will be accompanied by video presentations on globe production and a 3D model.

Information about the exhibition:

Date: 7. 3. - 8. 9. 2019

Opening on March 7 at 5 pm

Place: Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky u Prahy, p. O, Small Exhibition Hall

Organized by: Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky near Prague in cooperation with the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Geographical Section

Contacts to the authors of the exhibition:

Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky u Prahy: Mgr. Marcela Šášinková, email: sasinkova@muzeum-roztoky.cz, +420 604 231 453, +420 233 29 024, www.muzeum-roztoky.cz

Faculty of Science, Map Collection: PhDr. et Mgr. Eva Novotna, email: novotn48@natur.cuni.cz, +420 221 951 355, www.mapovasbirka.cz

Exhibition in the media:

Věda 24, CT24, April 27, 2019

Felkl. Famous globe factory

Programme Toulavá kamera, CT1, 23. 6. 2019

Globes production

The report starts at 9:58 and you can watch it here.