Welcome to the Jílové u Prahy Regional Museum!

The museum resides in a house named "Mince" ("Coin") on the lower end of Jílové main town square. The house used to be a seat of mining office and local mines were managed from there until 1420. Taxes collected in gold were also raised there.

As gold mining in the area declined after Hussite wars (1419-1436), there was no further reason for continued existence of the office and the house became a private property. Edward Kelley, an English court alchemist in service of emperor Rudolph II., became an owner of the house in 1590 for a short time. There is also a mural dating to 1744 in the courtyard, which reminds of another previous owner, Ferdinand von Krauseneck, who was a keeper of records of legal transactions of the Bohemian nobility. The house became property of the municipality in 1876 and was used as an elementary school until 1958. The museum resides there since then.

The museum itself was founded earlier, on 28th December 1891. It was an idea of local citizen Leopold Čihák, who offered his collection of hundreds of maps, documents and artifacts to the municipality, which accepted his offer. Collections have been expanded over time and now contain more than 67 000 items related to gold mining. Other artifacts in the collections are mostly items related to regional traditions, handicrafts, daily domestic life and archaeology, including clothes and dress accessories, toys, paintings and photographs, books and various archival materials.

The Jílové u Prahy Regional Museum engages in homeland studies of the southwestward part of Central Bohemian region and also specializes in both local and general Czech history of gold mining. This is reflected by permanent exhibitions named "Gold in the Czech Republic", "From regional history" and "Tramping and nature in southern surroundings of Prague". The museum also cooperates with Czech Geological Survey – Geofond on establishing a centre of material documentation of gold deposits in the Czech republic.