Villa Tugendhat
Villa Tugendhat
4.5
Speciality MuseumsPoints of Interest & LandmarksArchitectural Buildings
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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This modernist landmark is an outstanding example of the international architectural style that flourished in 1920s Europe.
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Sara K
Budapest, Hungary2 contributions
Jan 2023 • Family
It is vers hard to get tickets in advance, because of the very limited amount available and you can’t buy them at the location either. You can only buy tickets for the garden. We tried to get them a week before, but there weren’t any available. We weren’t able to go inside which is sad, because I believe that a lot more people would want to go inside and look at this architectural beauty.
Written January 8, 2023
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mike b
Prague, Czech Republic72 contributions
Jul 2022 • Couples
The Villa is fantastic, historical and important. Such a shame that probably the most boring person on earth stole nearly 2 hours of my life wittering on with no passion, energy or enthusiasm.
Why on earth is it not possible to visit without having to undergo this punishment. The guide, or her managers may wish to consider training along the theme of "less is more"
A philosophy that is actually in tune with the functionalist nature of the villa!
Why on earth is it not possible to visit without having to undergo this punishment. The guide, or her managers may wish to consider training along the theme of "less is more"
A philosophy that is actually in tune with the functionalist nature of the villa!
Written July 20, 2022
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Bryan F
6 contributions
May 2021 • Couples
I’ve had better days out in IKEA. At least there you could sit on the chairs. If you sport a man bun, salmon pink shorts, and a white linen shirt, I’m sure you’ll have great fun discussing the originality of the carpets and the inner-workings of the boiler room. Thank goodness we were wearing masks lest we be seen yawning. Beware: escaping is easier said than done.
Written June 12, 2021
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KatarinaB
New York City, NY13 contributions
Jun 2021
This unique house is alone worth coming to Brno. It's beautifully and thoughtfully restored and preserved from the insides, to the herb garden and the grounds. You really get a feeling of how it was to live in this architectural break through house. You'll even get to see how the mechanisms of the house worked (air, heat...).
The staff is very knowledgable, various languages is a given.
The staff is very knowledgable, various languages is a given.
Written August 18, 2021
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Markéta Č
29 contributions
Feb 2023 • Solo
A unique architectural gem. The guide was very enthusiastic and his narration was captivating. The shop is also excellent, where the visitor can pick up not only small souvenirs, but also valuable literature dedicated directly to the villa or the topic of modern architecture.
Written April 28, 2023
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Sharon P
Toronto, Canada322 contributions
Feb 2020 • Friends
We were really looking forward to visiting this villa following the book and the movie. Upon arrival we learned that we had to order tickets 6 months in advance. Still we were able to visit the gardens and the basement which were really disappointing. Do NOT feel obliged to visit this villa!
Written March 7, 2020
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dkaval
Milwaukee, WI299 contributions
If you enjoy architecture, especially minimalistic, you should tour the Tungenhut Villa in Brno. It is necessary to plan ahead, as tours sell out, especially the limited number of tours in English and German.
When we got to the villa, the gate was locked, but after several minutes, a guide came, unlocked the gate, and let us in. She did the same for each new arrival. The tickets tell you to arrive 15 minutes before the start of your tour. I suppose if everyone shows up and people are waiting for no shows in the hopes they can get a ticket at the last minute, they might give away your tickets. But I'm guessing they just don't want any latecomers because once the guide starts the tour, there might not be anyone around to let you in. And it does take a few minutes to exchange the printout for your actual ticket.
I was surprised how close the villa was to the street and to see how small it seemed. At the beginning I wondered how the tour was going to take 1 1/2 hours. But the house is built into the side of a hill, and the lower floor isn't apparent at first. And the guide gives you a lot of history in addition to the tour of the house and an explanation of how it was built. Nevertheless, it is not a large house.
Our guide's English was decent although I wouldn't say fluent. All in all, I would say the admission price was worth it, especially the senior price of 210 CZK. What did seem to be excessive was the charge to take pictures of the interior. That cost me more than the admission price. They will have you sign a statement that you will not use the photographs for commercial purposes, and they give you a sticker to identify that you are allowed to take photos. I paid the fee, and my friend bought a postcard of the main room and the onyx wall. I did see a few people hanging back behind the group occasionally to take a photo with theIr cell phones.
Recommendations:
1. Buy your tickets in advance on their website. Two words that are not translated or explained are Plné and Snížené--regular price and reduced price. I took a chance and selected the reduced rate since we would qualify in the US for a senior rate. As it turned out, we didn't need any special Czech-issued cards. The site takes you to another site to pay, similar to Paypal. I wasn't sure everything worked until I got an email confirmation. We bought the tickets a month before and got four of the last five tickets for the only tour that worked for us. (The Villa is closed on Mondays, one of the two days we were in the area.) Be sure to print out the confirmation--you will need to exchange it at the gate for the actual tickets.
2. That being said, there were only 10 in our tour group (they take up to 15), so either some people cancelled or just didn't show up.
3. There is only one English tour per day, usually at 15:00 (occasionally at 11:00). Click on the days you are considering, and it shows what is available. There are two types of tours--standard (one hour) and technical (1 1/2 hours.) The technical tour includes the basement and the mechanicals of the building, which I found interesting. Only the technical tour is available in English. Most of the tours are in Czech--one per day is also in German, but you can get printed descriptions in other languages if you ask when you check in.
4. Do a search in the Brno forum for Tungenhut Villa for suggestions on parking, other than what you find on the website.
5. If you are looking for a restaurant in the area of the Villa, I highly recommend Cafe Era.
6. Follow GCEK'S suggestions in the Brno Forum about parking near Videnska and take a tram into the city--or all the way to the Villa or Cafe Era.
7. Rather than walking to the Villa from the city center as we did (or Cafe Era, about six blocks beyond the Villa), take a tram. There's not that much to see along the way, and you'll have more time in the city center of Brno. Or take the #5 tram from Videnska to the Villa. If you are going to Cafe Era for lunch, make sure you get there no later than 13:30 if your tour is at 15:00, and let the waiter know. There is a tram that stops closer to Cafe Era, but I'm not sure which one.
8. Print out a city map in advance. We wasted time trying to find the tourist center.
9. I highly recommend reading The Glass Room by Simon Mawer if you plan to visit the villa. Although based loosely on the family and the villa with some made-up embellishments, it will enhance your intrigue of the villa.
10. Children would probably be bored.
When we got to the villa, the gate was locked, but after several minutes, a guide came, unlocked the gate, and let us in. She did the same for each new arrival. The tickets tell you to arrive 15 minutes before the start of your tour. I suppose if everyone shows up and people are waiting for no shows in the hopes they can get a ticket at the last minute, they might give away your tickets. But I'm guessing they just don't want any latecomers because once the guide starts the tour, there might not be anyone around to let you in. And it does take a few minutes to exchange the printout for your actual ticket.
I was surprised how close the villa was to the street and to see how small it seemed. At the beginning I wondered how the tour was going to take 1 1/2 hours. But the house is built into the side of a hill, and the lower floor isn't apparent at first. And the guide gives you a lot of history in addition to the tour of the house and an explanation of how it was built. Nevertheless, it is not a large house.
Our guide's English was decent although I wouldn't say fluent. All in all, I would say the admission price was worth it, especially the senior price of 210 CZK. What did seem to be excessive was the charge to take pictures of the interior. That cost me more than the admission price. They will have you sign a statement that you will not use the photographs for commercial purposes, and they give you a sticker to identify that you are allowed to take photos. I paid the fee, and my friend bought a postcard of the main room and the onyx wall. I did see a few people hanging back behind the group occasionally to take a photo with theIr cell phones.
Recommendations:
1. Buy your tickets in advance on their website. Two words that are not translated or explained are Plné and Snížené--regular price and reduced price. I took a chance and selected the reduced rate since we would qualify in the US for a senior rate. As it turned out, we didn't need any special Czech-issued cards. The site takes you to another site to pay, similar to Paypal. I wasn't sure everything worked until I got an email confirmation. We bought the tickets a month before and got four of the last five tickets for the only tour that worked for us. (The Villa is closed on Mondays, one of the two days we were in the area.) Be sure to print out the confirmation--you will need to exchange it at the gate for the actual tickets.
2. That being said, there were only 10 in our tour group (they take up to 15), so either some people cancelled or just didn't show up.
3. There is only one English tour per day, usually at 15:00 (occasionally at 11:00). Click on the days you are considering, and it shows what is available. There are two types of tours--standard (one hour) and technical (1 1/2 hours.) The technical tour includes the basement and the mechanicals of the building, which I found interesting. Only the technical tour is available in English. Most of the tours are in Czech--one per day is also in German, but you can get printed descriptions in other languages if you ask when you check in.
4. Do a search in the Brno forum for Tungenhut Villa for suggestions on parking, other than what you find on the website.
5. If you are looking for a restaurant in the area of the Villa, I highly recommend Cafe Era.
6. Follow GCEK'S suggestions in the Brno Forum about parking near Videnska and take a tram into the city--or all the way to the Villa or Cafe Era.
7. Rather than walking to the Villa from the city center as we did (or Cafe Era, about six blocks beyond the Villa), take a tram. There's not that much to see along the way, and you'll have more time in the city center of Brno. Or take the #5 tram from Videnska to the Villa. If you are going to Cafe Era for lunch, make sure you get there no later than 13:30 if your tour is at 15:00, and let the waiter know. There is a tram that stops closer to Cafe Era, but I'm not sure which one.
8. Print out a city map in advance. We wasted time trying to find the tourist center.
9. I highly recommend reading The Glass Room by Simon Mawer if you plan to visit the villa. Although based loosely on the family and the villa with some made-up embellishments, it will enhance your intrigue of the villa.
10. Children would probably be bored.
Written January 7, 2013
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Gabrielle
Recife, PE254 contributions
Aug 2019
It's annoying that it's fully booked for the rest of the year. I'm sure they could handle the demand with more tours.
Written August 27, 2019
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Dear visitor,
thank you for your review, we understand you're dissappointment, however the capacity limitation for tours is not a management decision, but by a request of monument preservation. The interiors of the villa were renewed between 2010-2012 into the original condition, using same materials like in 1930s and there where the originals are conservated, they were restored. The house was designed as a family villa and therefore the interiors can't be accessible in an unlimited way. The rule of 16 persons/group, maximum 8 tours per day is the maximum capacity the house can afford without being substantially damaged. Please keep this in mind when reviewing the site. We would be happy to accomodate all our visitors and it's not our goal to decline reservations, however we want to preserve the house for future generations. Thank you for understanding! With best regards Petr Dvořák, PR manager, Villa Tugendhat.
Written August 28, 2019
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Saint-Grail
Austria162 contributions
Jun 2012 • Friends
The villa is beautiful, that's for sure. But to get there you have to accomplish more than you would wish on a day that is supposed to be about the joys of travelling. First, you have to find an opening. You can visit the interior with a guide only. They accept just 15 people per hour. There are two tours: interiors and technical background. If you're not interested in the technical background of the villa (heating, fur safe), you only have like four tours a day to try to get to. For a UNESCO monument, that seems to me quite insufficient.
Second, the villa resembles a fortress! There is no entrance area - the cash desk is hidden, locked and invisible, there is no café, no museum shop, no bookshop, nothing! You have to press some button (congratulations if you have found it and if it occurred to you what you're supposed to do with it), wait for a person, that person will lock up a door in the fence and guide you to the cash desk. If you buy a "garden tour" (a ticket for the garden, simply - the Czech love to complicate things with language, it's a 200 years old tradition), this person will accompany you outside to the street and open another door in the fence for you. Fortunately, while leaving, it's enough just to press another button and this door will release you.
My strongest experience after a visit to this Mies van der Rohe masterpiece doesn't concern architecture. I just had one question in my head all the time during and after the visit: Why all that rigour???!!!
Second, the villa resembles a fortress! There is no entrance area - the cash desk is hidden, locked and invisible, there is no café, no museum shop, no bookshop, nothing! You have to press some button (congratulations if you have found it and if it occurred to you what you're supposed to do with it), wait for a person, that person will lock up a door in the fence and guide you to the cash desk. If you buy a "garden tour" (a ticket for the garden, simply - the Czech love to complicate things with language, it's a 200 years old tradition), this person will accompany you outside to the street and open another door in the fence for you. Fortunately, while leaving, it's enough just to press another button and this door will release you.
My strongest experience after a visit to this Mies van der Rohe masterpiece doesn't concern architecture. I just had one question in my head all the time during and after the visit: Why all that rigour???!!!
Written June 18, 2012
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LoveTravel5467
Rotherham, South Yorkshire1 contribution
Vila Tugendhat is a remarkable building in a wonderful city. The Villa is one of Mies van der Rohe's earliest works, and is typically functional. The house has been used and abused during the second world war, and then during communism (having been used for a while as a children's hospital), and so it is not quite as original as it will be in the future, which brings me on to a word of caution - sometime in the next twelve months or so it is due to close for major work to restore it to as original a condition as possible, which means it may be closed to visitors for a long time, so if you want to see it, go this year (2004), or you may have to wait a long time.
The house is archtecturally wonderful, but I did feel a bit sick about the fact that when it was built, it cost the equivalent of 30 large houses in the same area. Given that it was built in the late 1920s, a time of depression, one cannot help wondering if the money couldn't have been spent better. However, the place rally has to be seen if you are in Brno - it really is wonderful.
The house is archtecturally wonderful, but I did feel a bit sick about the fact that when it was built, it cost the equivalent of 30 large houses in the same area. Given that it was built in the late 1920s, a time of depression, one cannot help wondering if the money couldn't have been spent better. However, the place rally has to be seen if you are in Brno - it really is wonderful.
Written January 11, 2004
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Mária Kostolníková
Bratislava, Slovakia
Pekný večer prajem, chcela by som ponúknuť 1 voľný lístok na zajtrajšiu prehliadku o 13:00 hodine. Ide o základný okruh.
Ďakujem za odpoveď
Written March 5, 2020
Gibt es -ausser über die offizielle Seite, wo alle Führungen Anfang April ausgebucht sind- eine Möglichkeit, eine Innenbesichtigung zu machen. Irgendwie kann es ja nicht sein, dass es Monate vorher schon ausgebucht ist
Written February 25, 2020
Petr D
Brno, Czech Republic
Sehr geehrte SabineG27, die Führungen sind derzeit bis Ende Juli 2020 komplett ausgebucht, Sie können auch selber nachschauen am 1. März werden Termine für August 2020 zur Verkauf gestellt. Eine weitere Möglichkeit ist der sogennante Brnopas den Mann auf der Website gotobrno.cz kaufen kann und wo auch eine sehr begrenzte Anzahl von Tickets für Villa Tugendhat zum Verkauf steht.
Written February 26, 2020
È possibile portare delle scolaresche per metà/ fine novembre, se ci sono tempi di attesa, se è possibile la visita guidata e quanto costa il biglietto d' ingresso per liceali 18/19. Grazie
Written October 17, 2019
Petr D
Brno, Czech Republic
Buon giorno, purtroppo le visite sono completamente prenotate fino alla fine del 2019. Se avesse possibilita per visitare nel 2020 puo comprare i biglietti direttamente sul sito tugendhat.eu - li troverà anche tutte le info su entrate, orari d'apertura etc. Con cordiali Saluti Petr Dvorak, PR manager, Villa Tugendhat
Written October 18, 2019
Help!!! We are going to Brno especially to visit the Tugendhat Villa on 15th/16th May - but did not realise that we needed to book so far in advance and the tours are all booked. Does anyone have any suggestions, please?
Written April 1, 2015
I had the same problem the first time I went. I sent an email to Tugendhat Villa explaining that I really wanted to visit the Villa and it turned out that they had a visit during my stay that didn't show up on their web-site, but not in English, only in Czech. My Czech is non-existent, but I still really enjoyed the tour - even if parts of it left me a bit perplexed. To some extent you can prepare the visit in advance on the internet . Also, in my case, the young Czech guide did speak some English, so at the end of the visit I chatted with her and asked her questions about the parts of the visit I hadn't understood. Even if there aren't extra visits during your stay, if you really are travelling a long way, it's worth asking in your email if they could let you join a visit that is already full. The staff there are really friendly and it's well worth a try.
Written April 2, 2015
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