A small modern museum adjacent to the memorial site, opened in 2006, that tells the story of the village before, during, and after the massacre. The exhibition is unsentimental and rigorous: prewar photographs of ordinary Lidice families, footage shot by the Nazis of the destruction itself, the resettlement of the surviving women after 1945, and the painstaking postwar search for the children sent to German families.
A short film runs continuously in a small auditorium. The most arresting room shows the surviving objects — a wedding ring, a single shoe, a school exercise book — recovered after the war from the rubble. Allow an hour. Modest entrance fee.