The oldest part of the farmyard area and therefore the oldest part of the entire Building Heritage Centre was the location of the building-historical survey (SHP) exhibition. This exhibition is quite unique in its concept and meaning. It makes the most of spaces that have changed their face and function several times from the Middle Ages to the present day, yet each period has left its mark on them. The exhibition teaches us to perceive and read these changes, to notice the sometimes hardly perceptible details, to discover and enjoy understanding. The discerning visitor can thus learn about the methods and procedures of researching historic buildings, using a very specific example of an extraordinary monument with a very interesting building history.

The SHP exhibition highlights remarkable or methodologically significant building situations and elements on the building “in situ” and shows the adventure of discoveries found during the renovation of the premises. These have changed their function many times in the past – from a medieval warehouse, to a monastery wine cellar, to the flat of a coachman and later other farm staff. Thus, we can find Gothic broken windows, Baroque ridge vaults or an illustrative section of a 19th-century furnace torso. The very authentically preserved Baroque black kitchen, used to prepare food for the family eating in the adjacent ratejna, i.e. headhouse, also attracts attention.

The possibility of comparing the Baroque kitchen with rooms of similar function from the first half of the 19th century is not without interest.

The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with doc. Ing. arch. Michael Rykl, Ph.D. working at the FA ČVUT Prague.

The SHP exhibition is open to visitors during special events.