23 October 2025: The Craft Day 2025 event „Get Your Hands Dirty“ successfully took place in the atrium of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at CTU in Prague’s Dejvice campus. Organized by the Department of Architecture in cooperation with the National Heritage Institute, the event featured demonstrations of nine historical decorative techniques including gilding, marbling, wood graining, stained glass, and traditional wood finishes. Supported by an internal faculty grant and the ERASMUS+ „Heritage Train“ project, […]

27–28 September 2025: The Mauerbach Charterhouse opened its doors for the Heritage Day 2025 weekend, featuring an aerial photo of the historic site from the Federal Monuments Office archive. The event showcased traditional craft demonstrations and restoration displays including lime burning, brickmaking, pigment production, forging, stonemasonry, woodturning, scagliola restoration, and clay building techniques. Visitors could participate in expert consultations and children’s activities throughout both days at Kartäuserplatz 2 in Mauerbach, organized by the Federal Monuments […]

25–29 August 2025: We have successfully concluded the landmark 10th edition of our project, PARQUET RESTORER Austria 2025, organized in collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of the Protection of Architectural Monuments Mauerbach Charterhouse (BDA Austria) and the Esterházy Private Foundation. The event took place at two iconic locations: the Carthusian Monastery in Mauerbach and Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt. The program combined professional seminars with practical workshops focused on the restoration of historic parquet. […]

7.-11.7.2025 DE, Coburg – Coburg University of Applied Sciences DE – Seminar and workshop „restoration of parquet floors from Esterházy Castle“ using traditional historical technologies and materials. For our project in September 2025, we restored parquet floors for a castle in Eisenstadt, Austria, with students. VIDEO UNI COBURG    

24–25 May 2025: The Mauerbach Charterhouse hosted its Open Days, embodying the Venice Charter’s principle that „monument preservation requires their continuous maintenance.“ The Federal Monuments Office’s educational center demonstrated this through live traditional craft demonstrations including lime burning, gilding, and forging. Visitors participated in hands-on workshops like brickmaking, woodturning, pigment production, and linseed oil painting. The event featured a rich supporting program with activities for children, wine and honey tasting, and folk music. All exhibitions […]

3.3.2025  CZ, Prague – seminar and workshop in Czechia „restoration of parquet floors from Esterházy Castle“ using traditional historical technologies and materials. For our project in September 2025, we restored parquet floors for a castle in Eisenstadt, Austria, with students. Hand tools, traditional materials and technologies.