 The donations included coins, engravings and old prints as well as paintings.He was an active participant in the Czech and Moravian Revival Society, as well as several educational and patriotic organizations, and was a major supporter of , a scientific society; now part of the Czech Academy of Sciences, engaged primarily in researching Moravian history.The Taroucov collection at the Moravian Gallery in Brno includes works by Josef Mánes, Antonín Mánes, Václav Mánes, Josef Vojtěch Hellich, Antonín Chittussi and Joseph Bergler, as well as some of his own paintings.