Keltička’s Smithy Museum

The first blacksmith to use the fire and heat from black coal to replace the then common charcoal was the Ostrava blacksmith Jan Keltička. This is said to have happened around 1750 and in the place where a small museum named after Keltička stands today.

Keltička was a Silesian and worked in the service of Count Wilczek. This would be consistent with the location of the museum, which is in Silesian Ostrava and not too far from Wilczek’s villa, less than a ten minute walk. Visitors to the smithy can see over two thousand exhibits related to iron work, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

The oldest exhibits are items that were used for work by prehistoric people long before the Celtic Age, more than 25,000 years ago, when mammoth hunters were already living in the area and had already discovered that the black stone they found, for example, on Mount Landek, could be used for fire.

Contact

Muzeum Keltičkova kovárna
Keltičkova 136/6
710 00 Ostrava-Slezská Ostrava


E-mail: keltickovakovarna@seznam.cz
Web: http://www.keltickovakovarna.cz/
Tel.: +420 777 194 658