The name behind the famed sports car and creator of the Volkswagen Beetle, Porsche was born in the town of Vratislavice in 1875 when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
How to handle the memory of the town's most famous son has however become a source of contention.
Porsche was a member of the NSDAP, the forerunner of the Nazi party, enjoyed a good relationship with Hitler and designed tanks and vehicles for German war machine. During the war his factories also used prison labour from concentration camps.
"The presence [of the exhibition] in Vratislavice is scandalous," wrote Petr Jirasko, one vocal opponent to the exhibition, in the local newspaper.
"In Germany, the name Porsche is associated with cars. Shall we be the same in Vratislavice, and ignore his Nazi past?"
Mr Jirasko also pointed out that Porsche received an SS award from Heinrich Himmler and was honoured by the Nazi state.
In the past the anti-Porsche faction have campaigned for the renaming of a street named after Porsche, and claimed that by using the engineer's name the town was promoting Nazism.
Ferdinand Porsche with his grandchildren Alexander Porsche and Ferdinand Piech (Porsche Archives)
Lukas Pohanka, Vratislavice's mayor, said the contentious exhibition was designed to "highlight the genius of our native engineer". He added, however, that following protests the more unsavoury elements of Porsche's life will now be covered.
The attack on the Porsche exhibition produced a more robust retort from Milan Bumba, chairman of the Classic Porsche Owners Club in the Czech Republic.
"It saddens me that today, 60 years after the death of Ferdinand Porsche, there are still people who spit on his memory," he told the newspaper MF Dnes. "They are just a bunch of communists."