Guide through the Centre for Building Heritage in Plasy of the NTM

Národní technické muzeum 2020, 210 pages., 165x245 mm, ISBN 978-80-7037-322-4 The Centre for Building Heritage of the National Technical Museum in Plasy (CSD NTM) as a branch of the National Technical Museum in Prague is located in the former Cistercian Monastery in the north Pilsen region. The guidebook briefly informs about the CSD NTM Plasy project's genesis and the 'Building' collection presented there. Nevertheless, the primary attention focuses on building techniques and elements exhibited in the former brewery compound. The book shows readers around the exhibition's sections. It introduces them to building materials and historical structures – from basements to construction elements (walls, vaults, columns), through vertical circulation structures (staircases) and horizontal structures (floors, ceilings) to finishes (walls and floor tiles, plasters, renders), different types of windows and doors, and technical equipment (heating, water, electrical installations) to roof structures and roofing materials. The expositions situated on the farmyard premises – the Court of Building Crafts oriented craftsmanship and technologies and the unique Exposition of Historical Surveying – were not left behind either. The texts are amply illustrated.