Mendel Museum

The Mendel Museum in Brno occupies the grounds of the Augustinian abbey where the friar Gregor Mendel conducted his pioneering experiments in plant heredity in the mid-nineteenth century. Working in the monastery garden, Mendel cross-bred pea plants and formulated the laws that became the foundation of modern genetics, though his work was overlooked in his lifetime. The museum displays his notebooks, microscopes, and a reconstruction of the garden. The adjacent basilica and abbey buildings complete a site central to the history of science.