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The first written remark came from 1352, since it concerns the parish church we can assume Semily having been in existence already for a long time before this date. The estate belonged for a long time to the Smiřický family, then to Albrecht of Valdstejn, then to foreign noble families. In 1890 by the town of Semily bought up the rest of the Semily manor.
There was a brewery from 1515 and chateau from the 16th century. The most valuable monument in the town is the column with the Virgin Mary from 1738. Other important monuments there are the cemetery church of St John the Baptist (1727) and a vicarage (1797), the neo–romanesque church of St Peter and Paul (1911), the building of the museum (1760) and several art nouveau style buildings.
The museum in town Semily shows the region of the upstream of the river Jizera basin with a view to ethnography and arts, humanities and social spheres.
Decorated furniture, objects from households under the Giant Mountains such as folk costumes, townspeople and rural clothes from the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, folk christmas cribs, Maizner´s and Dolenský´s marionettes and other craftmen and additional atractions campile an unusually arranged erhnographic exhibition. It is situatedin the attic.
A part of the museum is the memorial of „Personages of the region Semily“. It represents 45 personages connected with this town and its neighbourhood. We can find there politicians Dr. F. L. Rieger and Dr. Karel Kramář, writers Antal Stašek and Ivan Olbracht, a publicist Pavel Tigrid, scientists and inventors František A. Petřina and Bohumil Kučera, a composer Jindřich Hybler, artists František Janoušek, František Jiroudek, Miloslav Janků, Vladimír Komárek, Jaroslav Klápště, Miloslav Jágr and Jiří Salaba, glass–makers Adolf Matura and Pavel Hlava, a producer Věra Plívová and others.
The organization of Christmas and Easter fairs is also an inseparable part of nowadays museum activities. There is a large offer of folklorist´s social anthropology objects and small presents inspired with traditional folk pieces of craftsmanship.
Beautiful view on the Krkonoše mountains you can see from the road from Semily to Nová Paka.
