The Elbe Ethnographic Museum Přerov nad Labem presents the people and folk culture from the middle of the Elbe region from the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century through folk architecture. Its origins date back to the end of the 19th century and are associated with the personality of the owner of the Přerov estate, Prince Ludwig Salvator of the Tuscan Habsburg branch. He was inspired by the Jubilee Provincial Exhibition of 1891 in Prague, where the so-called Czech cottage was exhibited. Ludvík Salvator therefore bought cottage No. 19 near the chateau and had it furnished and equipped with painted furniture, various household items and a winch well, according to the model of a Czech cottage. This actually created the first regional mini-museum and quickly became a popular place.
The specialized museum of folk architecture was founded in 1967. The purpose of the open-air museum was to preserve historically valuable buildings in the environment in which they were created and fulfilled their function. It was based on a Czech cottage and very quickly the area was supplemented with other buildings. Ethnographic exhibitions are arranged in individual buildings, in some cottages supplemented by folk costumed mannequins. The buildings are arranged in such a way as to resemble the location of cottages in a Central Bohemian village as faithfully as possible and thus make a natural impression. In the season, exhibitions from museum collections and the traditional spring and Christmas exhibitions
