Czech Center Museum Houston

Czech Center Museum Houston is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit educational, cultural arts organization located in the Museum District in Houston, Texas. We are available to host events for up to 250 guests in our Baroque-style museum spaces. The Center’s mission is to preserve, record, and celebrate the language, scholarship and arts of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia. We remember ancestors, immigrants such as all others, who came, stayed, and made a difference in America. Learn how knowing who you are, your family roots, makes you a citizen of the world. http://www.czechcenter.org/

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Distinguished Lecture: Bill Boyce

This weekend, join Czech Center Museum Houston for our Second Distinguished Lecture Series, featuring Bill Boyce. The evening will include a review of his book for sale and signing of Miss Fortune’s Last Mission.

Date: Saturday, January 8, 2015 Time: 4:00 PM Tickets: Admission is free; please RSVP. Contact: [email protected] or [phone]

About Miss Fortune’s Last Mission: Uncovering a Story of Sacrifice and Survival (Bright Sky Press):

Bill Boyce always wanted to know why his father, William D. Boyce, refused to discuss his tour of duty on a B-24 Liberator bomber during WWII. The experience had affected every aspect of his father’s life, but an unspoken agreement kept the topic classified. Bill failed to ask, and his father failed to tell.

Twenty-five years after his father’s death, Bill found Ray Noury, the one man who might tell him what his father would not. Noury had flown with Boyce during the fall and winter of 1943 and saved his life.

Their conversation led Bill to John Torrison, who had spent a decade tracking down facts about the crew and his uncle’s role as the tail gunner. Together, they searched stacks of old photographs, military records and family letters across America and in the Czech Republic, where the B-24 nicknamed Miss Fortune crashed on February 22, 1944.

Both intimate and historical, Miss Fortune’s Last Mission shows the impact the brave men who fought and died still have in the lives of the survivors who honor their sacrifices.

Details of the air war over Europe and the lives of the crew provide an important window on the human side of war. The authors’ search to understand the reverberations of the crash reveals the lasting effect of loss and healing power of sharing our stories.

Bill Boyce lives in Houston, Texas, where he practiced law for 18 years before becoming a justice on the state court of appeals. He graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and from Northwestern University School of Law. Before attending law school, he worked for newspapers in Illinois and Oregon.

He is married to Maria Wyckoff Boyce and is the proud father of daughters Emily and Julia.

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Happy Mother’s Day from the Czech Center Museum Houston!

Though many countries and cultures all over the world have been dreaming up ways to celebrate moms for centuries, we can credit our own tradition to Miss Anna M. Jarvis, a Philadelphia school teacher in 1907.  She and her supporters petitioned businessmen, politicians, and other influential people of her day to make celebrating and honoring mothers into a national holiday.  Seven years later, President Woodrow Wilson put it on the books for the second Sunday in May, the 8th anniversary of the passing of Anna’s own mother.  Since then, the celebration has traveled far and wide, influencing people of all nationalities to honor their own mothers on the same day.  So Happy Mother’s Day and Všechno nejlepší ke Dni matek!

Take 20% off beautiful handmade jewelry in our Prague International Gifts Shop!

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We hope to see everyone on Saturday, April 26. It's a free Museum Day for the 2014 Museum Experience!

We'll be showing movies on the second floor in Prague Hall and enjoying drinks in our Courtyard.

Please enjoy our museum on such a beautiful Spring Day.

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20% off all unique Easter items!

Tuesday and Wednesday, April 22 and 23, only!  20% of all unique

Easter items - figurines, crystal, ceramic, and art printed eggs, chicks, ducks, and rabbits!

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Today and Wednesday, the 22nd and 23rd only, pick up one of these precious cross stitched bunny baskets for just a $16 donation to the Czech Center Museum Houston. The baskets were made by Honorary Board Member Marion Freeman, donated to the Czech Center Museum Houston for Easter, and filled with tiny chicks, eggs, and birds!

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Happy Easter!

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Mark your calendars for April 25 to see the Franz Schubert opera, Die Schöne Müllerin, performed by Gottfried Schiller, with Robert Pace accompanying!  The performance will be held next Friday, April 25, 2014 at 7:30pm, in the MUS Recital Hall at Lonestar College-Kingwood.  Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for students.

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Due to unforeseen cancellations, the Czech Center Museum Houston has available dates for Graduation Parties, Wedding Receptions, Baby Showers and any other occasion for celebration in May, June or July. Please contact us for any upcoming events at: [email protected]  or call us at: 713-528-2060 to learn more information.

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Today we honor the Czech Center Museum Houston's Friend and Donor, Mr. Roy H. Cullen. He passed away Friday, April 4, 2014.

Shown are selections of his Ballet Prague photographs donated in 2008

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March 1, 2014  Annual Members and Friends Dinner Meeting With Houston's Treble Choir — at Czech Center Museum Houston.

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Prague, Czech Republic

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Cultural Centre / Kongresové centrum, Zlín

Eva Jiřičná / Eva Jiricna Architects / AI Design

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Cafe Prague Happy Hour! 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Thursday, February 27 Come see the Mural of Charles Bridge It transcends you to Prague, the City of 1000 Spires! For first time this year, enjoy Cafe Prague  Taste Delicious wines, Czech Import Beers, and Local favorites Happy Hour prices! Make new friends. See a Baroque Palace. It's a great place!

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 St. Valentine’s Day will be here before you know it. Please come into our Prague International Gift Shop to buy really elegant treasures for all your sweethearts.

The Czech Center Museum Houston is open Monday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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                Not much is accurately known about St. Valentine aside from his execution on February 14, 273 North of Rome, Italy. The Legend is that while Bishop Valentine was jailed, his prayers healed the jailer’s blind daughter. On the day of his execution he left a note to her signed “Your Valentine”. Another popular legend is that he secretly married Christian couples to prevent husbands from being drafted to war, a defiance to Emperor Claudius’ orders.

St. Valentine’s Day became a Christian holiday to honor his sainthood and replace the pagan February holiday of Lupercalia. It has evolved to a worldwide holiday that honors love of all kinds. In the Czech Republic, Valentines’ Day is relatively new, as it was unheard of before the fall of communism in 1989. May 1st remains the traditional day for couples, however the sales of St. Valentine’s Gifts have steadily increased over time.

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Spilberk Castle, Brno