The Chateau Stables exhibition at NZM Kačina offers a fascinating journey into a bygone era. Visitors can explore the renovated underground horse stables, brought to life with immersive animation and authentic sounds. This unique display provides insights into aristocratic life, horse husbandry, and the historical architectural design of these essential service quarters.
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Explore the historic underground stables of Chateau Kačina, brought to life with animation and authentic sounds of horses and their environment. This exhibition offers a unique glimpse into the daily lives of horses and the service quarters of an aristocratic residence, showcasing architectural design and historical use.
The Chateau Stables exhibition immerses visitors in a bygone era within the renovated underground stables of NZM Kačina. Upon entering, guests encounter an atmosphere enriched with animation and authentic sounds, including the neighing of horses, the clip-clop of hooves, and ambient natural sounds. The exhibition highlights the unique architectural design of the stables, which are integrated into the chateau's colonnades and partially sunk below ground level, allowing horses direct entry from the park via a tunnel. This design ensured a comfortable environment, keeping the stables cool in summer and warm in winter, complete with original brick floors and stone drinking troughs. Visitors can see the space that housed up to fourteen riding and carriage horses, including special boxes for stallions, pregnant mares, or mares with foals, alongside a coach house and service building. The stables served their original purpose until the early 1930s, after which they were occasionally used for stabling horses during races. Beyond the stables, the exhibition also provides context for other service areas of the chateau, such as the kitchen, laundry, ice room, and cellars, offering a comprehensive picture of life and work within the aristocratic estate and the changes it underwent over the past century. The restored stud thoroughbred Gradivo, a star of racing tracks in the first half of the twentieth century, is also a notable feature.
The page details general entrance fees for various tours and exhibitions at NZM Kačina, including the Chateau greenhouse, herb garden, and historic stables, with prices listed for adults, children, students, and seniors. 'Life Below the Stairs: Servants’ Quarters' and 'Exhibition Floor' are noted as non-guided tours with specific pricing. A combined ticket for NZM Kačina and NZM Čáslav, as well as for NZM Kačina and National Stud at Kladruby nad Labem, is also available. Specific ticketing for the 'Chateau Stables' exhibition itself is not detailed separately but falls under the 'historic stables' tour pricing.
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