Exhibition Apologia of the Cistercian Landscape (Plasy)

The travelling author exhibition Apologia of the Cistercian Landscape (Plasy), organized by the Centre for the Baroque (Museum and Gallery of Northern Pilsen in Mariánská Týnice), explores the value, significance, and protection of the landscape once belonging to the estate of the Cistercian monastery in Plasy. As the title suggests, this unique landscape faces many challenges: on one hand, it is gradually being rehabilitated; on the other, the potential construction of wind turbines threatens to visually devastate the values it embodies.

Since 2019, a key aspect of the landscape's contemporary presentation has been its involvement in the international project Cisterscapes (Cistercian Landscapes Connecting Europe), which includes a total of seventeen monastic landscapes across Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic. Most notably, the landscape has been awarded the prestigious European Commission’s European Heritage Label (EHL).

Displayed across ten exhibition panels, the exhibition introduces not only major monastic monuments and smaller structures, but also the Old Plasy Road, Baroque farmyards, sculptures, crosses, memorial trees—silent witnesses to the landscape’s history—and ponds. The exhibition presents selected landscape features as well as the museum’s ongoing activities in the area, such as guided walks and pilgrimages.

The exhibition will be freely accessible in the ground-floor cloister of the convent from April 4 to June 1, 2025.