22. april 2019 marks exactly 60 years since the departure of Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund on their second expedition to Asia. Its beginning is connected with the National Technical Museum, and therefore a significant part of the exhibition will be dedicated to it.

Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund made two trips. The first was in 1947, the second in 1959. During their first trip, a communist coup took place in Czechoslovakia, but they managed to get the communist government to approve the second trip. The circumstances of the first and second trips were very different and the exhibition follows these very interesting changes.

photo by MJVM in Zlín, author

The travels of Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund are not only unforgettable journeys around the world, but also equally adventurous journeys of two engineers of economics to photography, film and writing. the “filmmaking misfits”, as they called themselves, produced 4 feature films, 147 short films, made thousands of radio and magazine reports, wrote 16 books that have been translated into many languages, and sold over 8,500,000 copies worldwide.

The exhibition also includes stereoscopic photographs taken by Zikmund and Hanzelka during their second trip.

The exhibition is open to the public as part of the NTM CSD Plasy Exposition of Civil Engineering
3. april – 31 October 2019