Our latest live online Zoom cooking series comprises of 5 classes. Our Fall Cooking Series will take you on a delightful journey through Czech and Slovak cuisine. We'll start with the comforting Brussels Sprouts Soup, then explore the savory depths of Szegedin Goulash. You'll master the art of flaky, layered pastries with traditional and vegetarian...
As the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library celebrates it’s 50th anniversary throughout 2024, our Kava & Kolac (Coffee & Kolach) series will feature programs, concerts, highlights, and special events. Brew a pot of coffee, powder your kolaches, and join NCSML via Facebook Live or YouTube Live each first Friday of the month. Join us...
Students of all ages (preschool through college) are invited to visit the NCSML’s exhibits for free on the first Saturday of each month. College students must bring a current school ID card. Cost: Free with student ID. Sponsored by: UFG Insurance
Our latest live online Zoom cooking series comprises of 5 classes. Our Fall Cooking Series will take you on a delightful journey through Czech and Slovak cuisine. We'll start with the comforting Brussels Sprouts Soup, then explore the savory depths of Szegedin Goulash. You'll master the art of flaky, layered pastries with traditional and vegetarian...
Want to ask questions about our spectacular Christmas Market Tour happening in December? Join this virtual meeting to have your questions answered by staff and find out more about this festive trip of a lifetime! Learn more about the tour and sign up at our website: https://ncsml.org/ncsml-events/christmas-market-tour/
Our latest live online Zoom cooking series comprises of 5 classes. Our Fall Cooking Series will take you on a delightful journey through Czech and Slovak cuisine. We'll start with the comforting Brussels Sprouts Soup, then explore the savory depths of Szegedin Goulash. You'll master the art of flaky, layered pastries with traditional and vegetarian...
The photographic exhibition Tempus Fugit II deals with Baroque churches in Broumov, northeastern Bohemia. The designer was the well-known architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, who was born in 1689 in Prague. He was one of the most important architects of the Baroque period. Tempus Fugit II, by photographers Dano and Jana Veselští, aims not only to...
Czech'em Out Book Club meets on the third Monday of each month with NCSML volunteer Steve Pederson in the Skala Bartizal Library following the reading of each months selected book. You can purchase this month's book from our museum store. About this months book: The Last Palace Written by Norman Eisen, former US Ambassador to...
See members of the Cedar Valley Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild demonstrate their embroidery skills. Demonstrations take place at the museum each month on the fourth Thursday in Rozek Grand Hall.Cost: Free
Our latest live online Zoom cooking series comprises of 5 classes. Our Fall Cooking Series will take you on a delightful journey through Czech and Slovak cuisine. We'll start with the comforting Brussels Sprouts Soup, then explore the savory depths of Szegedin Goulash. You'll master the art of flaky, layered pastries with traditional and vegetarian...
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 28 (OPENING NIGHT) - 6:30 p.m. / NCSML Two worlds, one people, and an excitement for the history, future, and celebration of cross-cultural experience will collide in this opening event of the Echoes festival...
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 29 - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML National folkwear & fashion show with leading Czech designer Beata Rajská! Czech, Moravian, and Slovak national folkwear fashion show will be on display for this incredible evening celebrating...
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 30th & November 3rd - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML Selections from Dvořáks immortal masterpiece, Rusalka, will include visual highlights of the Czech landscape and how Dvořák found inspiration in the Czech countryside. Featuring American...
Czech documentary photographer Jiří Doležel will present his Czechs in America – Exile/Emigration 1948 exhibition focused around photographs and interviews with the representatives of Czechoslovak exile in the USA, which record the life experiences of those who had been forced by circumstances to leave the country of their origin seeking freedom and safety in the...
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 31 - 7:00 p.m. / St. Wenceslaus Church in Cedar Rapids, IA An evening of selected works by A. Dvořák, B. Smetana and V. H. Voříšek, with 2013 Concertino Praga International Broadcast winner classical...
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! November 1 - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML Czech soprano Eliška Gattringerová, guest soloist of the Czech Brno National Theater, joins the Czech Philharmonic concert master violinist Jan Mráček, and pianist Lukáš Klánský to showcase an...
As the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library celebrates it’s 50th anniversary throughout 2024, our Kava & Kolac (Coffee & Kolach) series will feature programs, concerts, highlights, and special events. Brew a pot of coffee, powder your kolaches, and join NCSML via Facebook Live or YouTube Live each first Friday of the month. Join us...
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! November 2 - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML Peter Dvorský, a Slovak operatic tenor renowned for his lyrical voice, will be featured in a documentary by Iveta Malachovská highlighting his life and career. Dvorský, with his...
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! November 2 - 9:00 a.m.- 12 p.m. / NCSML Children's book illustrator exhibition and Q&A with Marketa Vydrova, children's book illustrator from the Czech Republic! Workshop, discussion and exhibition opening of one of the most...
Students of all ages (preschool through college) are invited to visit the NCSML’s exhibits for free on the first Saturday of each month. College students must bring a current school ID card. Cost: Free with student ID. Sponsored by: UFG Insurance
ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! Kolache Class, November 2 - 2:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. / NCSML Gingerbread Class, November 3 - 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. / NCSML Featuring Petra Burianová, the first winner of the Czech television show "Bake-Off",...