Museum in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm

Museum of Nový Jičín, p.o.

Rare and threatened species of plants and animals are presented here, along with information on the protected nature preserves of the Beskydies and on the Pobeskydí Nature Park.

The deep forests of the 1,000-meter-high Beskydies are a refuge for many rare animals. With a bit of luck you can hear the gurgling of the heathcock at pairing time, the shrill whistling of the wood crane or of the white-back shrike as it hacks into a tree trunk. Flowery and mountain beech woods, debris forests and fern and „papratkove“ fir forests predominate in the wooded mountain regions. Our largest feline beast of prey, the sharp-eyed lynx, hunts there and even dares to attack a stag.

At springtime, the moist mountain meadows are colored by the blossoms of Valachian orchids – the ragged robins. Also the May foxglove and … (Dactylorhiza majalis, Dactylorhiza fuchsii) bloom there. The scarlet ragged robbin and the cuckoo ragged robbin (Orchis purpurea, Orchis morio) grow in the drier places. The golden lily (Lilium martagon) with its scarlet speckled blossoms also appears on the edge of the bright forests. The gentian (Gentiana asclepiadea) with its dark-blue bells blooms in the higher regions.

Water has many forms, and one of them is in the community of Tichá on the slope of Tichá Hill, where a strongly calcareous spring gushes forth. In the course of the centuries, it created the inimitable Travertin Cascade, which is a protected natural monument.