Nuclear Fallout Shelter

The civil defence headquarters shelter for the Kroměříž district lies beneath today's Kroměříž Library (Knihovna Kroměřížska) on Slovanské náměstí. It is the only facility of its kind preserved in this form in the Zlín Region. The construction was strictly secret and was hidden behind the building of the former Slovan cinema. The pressure-resistant reinforced-concrete shelter was completed in 1985.

The shelter was intended for about thirty people: the civil defence staff and selected representatives of the regime of the time. Its almost 400 m² contain around thirty rooms with their technical facilities preserved: a power generator, a drinking-water treatment unit and the original ventilation with filtration. You can also see 1980s telecommunication equipment, protective suits, a first-aid room and a collection of objects from civil defence and everyday life of the period.

During the tour you can try setting the filtration equipment in motion yourself and hear the sirens that warned of a nuclear attack.