After €5.9M+ restoration, the popular tourist attraction reopens for public after two years on March 6. Don’t miss “the most beautiful interior room in modern architecture”.
Admission tickets to villa Tugendhat tours need to be booked online. It’s quite easy and there is still no big husle. That may be because Brno City Museum set the price quite high.
There are two kinds of tours: standard one for CZK 300 (180) and a “technical” tour for CZK 350 (210), which gives you chance to see the formerly unaccessible facilities in the building, like the laundry room and the dark room (which is more interesting than it seems). Family ticket are available for CZK 690 (standard) and CZK 805 (technical). If you want only see the garden, you may buy the ticket at the place – but info on price is not available yet.
Villa Tugendhat was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and built between 1928 and 1930 for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta. Sadly, they had to escape Czechoslovakia in 1938 and have never come back since.
It is a breathtaking, heart-calming piece of modern architecture. I love the living room, with the famous onyx wall, large open space and huge windows that make you believe the house is actually sailing above Brno, towards the cathedral.
The building was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001.
Take a look inside (the video shows the villa before its restoration):
The reopening got covered by The Guradian: read the article and visit the gallery.
One of the Tugendhats’ daughters, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, works as a professor of art history at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
“For me, this is actually the most beautiful interior room in modern architecture,” she said. “Usually, it’s only in old churches that a room has such a meditative effect.”
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Beautiful room, I love looking at the modern properties of that era and this seems better than most, love to see it at some point.
The entrance price is steep, I guess they’ve put so much money into this renovation that they’re trying to get some quick return.