Abstract
The exhibition presents a family business operating in Roztoky near Prague throughout its almost 100 years long history (1854-1952). This largest Austro-Hungarian manufactory in its heyday produced unbeatably best globes in 8 sizes, 10 designs and 17 language versions.
They also printed the first globes in national languages, not only in Czech, but also in Hungarian, Polish, etc. Felkl's son Ferdinand was the holder of two patents for folding globes.
In addition, the factory offered special devices such as teluria, sololunaria, planetaria and armillary spheres. They exported all around Europe and overseas.
Their terrestrial and celestial globes were awarded prizes at numerous international (Paris, Vienna, Plovdiv, Lvov, Melbourne) as well as national (Prague, Teplice) exhibitions. They were awarded status of mandatory teaching aids by the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Instruction.
Apart from the company and family, the exhibition presents the factory and working conditions, the supervisor and workers, domestic and foreign authors. The highlight of the exhibition were Felkl's globes in various languages, telurians, aids for the production of globes and original instruction booklet.
The exhibition was accompanied by videoprezentations.