Every town has at least one story that combines the unique with the amazing. Mikulov has many. The town grew up along the Amber Trail from the Baltic to the Adriatic; for long centuries it guarded the important border between Austria and Moravia. It was the seat of the powerful noble families Liechtenstein and the Dietrichstein, who turned Mikulov into an important religious center, the capital of Moravian Judaism, a haven for the Anabaptists, and a place of Catholic pilgrimage. In Mikulov people of differing faiths lived alongside one another in peace. Mikulov was an important political center as well, closer to Vienna than to Prague: peace negotiations were held here after the battle of Austerlitz (1805) and the Austria-Prussian War (1866). Today, now that the former Iron Curtain has been dismantled (1989), Mikulov is again the friendly gate to South Moravia, a town with rich heritage, fertile vineyards, and natural beauty.Two famous aristocratic families, the Liechtensteins and the Dietrichsteins, did most to build and beautify Mikulov. Most of what was built by the Liechtensteins was later renovated; thus there are few examples of Gothic architecture (exceptions: parts of the chateau, Kozí hrádek, or the presbytery in the church of St. Václav. Cardinal František Dietrichstein, in the troubled times after the battle of White Mountain (1620), left the greatest legacy. He rebuilt the chateau, built the first Loreta church in the country, invited the Piarist order to found a school, and built the shrines atop the Holly Hill. In 1952 the historic center of Mikulov was declared an Urban Monument Zone.

Mikulov
www.mikulov.cz

Regional muzeum in Mikulov
www.rmm.cz

MAS "dílna" Advisory Board member list

Marcela Effenbergerová, project manager; Karel Frantel, artist and pedagog; Mgr. Radek Galousek, marketing specialist; Jitka Havlíková, production manager; PhDr. Štefan Kapičák, culturologist; Rostislav Koštial, Mayor of the Town of Mikulov; Mgr. Petr Kubín, director of the Regional Museum in Mikulov; Libor Lípa, artist and supervisor of MAS; Mgr. Jan Richter, Czech Radio reporter.

MAS "dílna" Expert Council member list

akad. soch. Nikos Armutidis, sculptor; MgA.Veronika Bromová, artist; PhDr. Oskar Brůža, coordinator and deputy director of Visual Artists Union of the Czech Republic; akad. mal. Tomáš Císařovský, painter; PaedDr. Jarmila Červená, Mikulov grammar school teacher; PhDr. Hana Dvořáková, director of the Ethnographical Institute of the Moravian Land Museum in Brno; Eva Eisler, artist and designer; ing. arch. Lydie Filipová, project manager; Vít Havránek, curator; Mgr. Monika Helerová, financial advisor; PhDr. Kaliopi Chamonikola, art historian; JUDr. Jaroslav Javornický, lawyer; PhDr. Štefan Kapičák; Michal Koleček, teacher and curator; akad. mal. Milan Kunc, painter; akad. mal. Tomáš Lahoda, painter; akad. mal. Zdeněk Lhotský, painter; Lenka Lindauerová, editor-in-chief of Art & Antiques magazine; PhDr. Pavel Liška, rector of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague; MgA. Jaroslav Milfajt, teacher and stage designer; Mgr. Roman Musil, deputy direktor of the Culture Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic; Mgr. Helena Musilová, curator of the contemporary art collection of the National Gallery in Prague; Petr Novotný, gallery owner; Ing. Jiří Olič, art writer and editor; Jaroslav Pecka, gallery owner; MgrA. Tereza Pirščová-Brichtová, artist; Marek Pokorný, director of the Moravian Gallery in Brno; akad. mal. Jiří Sopko, painter and teacher; Helena Staub, art historian and curator at the Maillol Museum in Paris; Pavel Suchánek, MP; akad. mal. Margita Titlová Ylovsky, painter and teacher; Mgr. Eva Trilecová, art historian; Jiří Valoch, art theoretician and curator.

Note: List as of 31^th December 2011.