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===Museums, libraries and galleries=== [[File:Moravská zemská knihovna crop.jpg|thumb|Moravian Library building]] The most significant museum in Brno is the [[Moravian Museum]], the largest museum in Moravia and the second largest in the Czech Republic.<ref name="mzm"/> The museum was founded in 1817 and its collections include over 6 million pieces.<ref name="mzm">{{cite web|url=http://www.mzm.cz/Default-en.htm |title=The Moravian Museum |access-date=26 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927190624/http://www.mzm.cz/Default-en.htm |archive-date=27 September 2011}}</ref> The biggest public library in Brno is the [[Moravian Library]], the second largest library in the Czech Republic with around 4 million volumes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mzk.cz/en/about-library|title=About the Library|publisher=The Moravian Library in Brno|access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref> The biggest gallery in Brno is the [[Moravian Gallery]], again the second largest institution of its kind in the Czech Republic and the biggest in Moravia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/moravska-galerie/o-galerii/historie.aspx?lang=en|title=The Moravian Gallery in Brno – History|access-date=26 September 2011|archive-date=20 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320161136/http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/moravska-galerie/o-galerii/historie.aspx?lang=en|url-status=dead}}</ref> One section of the Moravian Museum, the [[Anthropos Pavilion]], is related to the oldest history of mankind and prehistoric Europe. Brno also has a Technical Museum, the largest in Moravia and one of the largest in Czech Republic. The permanent exhibitions chart the advance of science and technology, accompanied by various lifelike models and restored machines. The museum also hosts short-term exhibitions of many different points of interest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technicalmuseum.cz/en/akce/enamelling/|title=The Art of Enamelling / The Enamelling Technique|first=Pixelfield|last=s.r.o}}</ref> In 2016 the Vašulka Kitchen Brno (VKB) was established in Brno for research, artistic experiment and informal education in the field of new media art. Housed in the Brno House of Arts, it consists of the archive of [[Steina and Woody Vasulka]]’ work and presents a permanent exhibition of their selected works.
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