the history of the museum of jan vachal began in 1920 when an artist váchal decorated a house of his friend. vachal's wall paintings in the portmoneum are very complicated.the paintings are citations from váchal´s stories. the painted topics are a country and a number of devils, spirits and ghosts. the museum was opened thanks to the paseka publishing house in the honour of vachal's work. it was opened in 1993. it was called the portmoneum after the house owner portman.