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The National
Museum - tel. 224 49 71 11
The main building
of the National Museum was constructed in Neo-Renaissance style in 1885-90.
In the building
of the National Museum are installed in permanent expositions, collections
of the sections of zoology, of mineralogy, of paleontology, of history,
of archeology and of numismatics.
Open daily,
except the first Tuesday of each month, free on the first Monday
of each month
May - September 10 am - 6 pm
October - April 9 am - 5 pm
Address:
Václavské
náměstí 68, Nové Město, Prague 1, Metro: line A or C- Muzeum, Tram: No.
11
admission: special
ticket with validity of 3 days included visit of all buildings of National
Museum
Adults............
160,- CZK, with discount 80,- CZK
Family ( max.
2 adults, 4 persons total ) - 200,- CZK
Ticket to the
main building of the National Museum
adults .............
80,- CZK, with discount 40,- CZK
family ............
90,- CZK
The Museum
of Natural Sciences
This museum
is situated in the main building of the National Museum and it has a mineralogical,
a petrografical, a botanical, an entomological, a zoological and anthropological
sections.
The Historical
Museum - tel.: 257 53 45 78
In the main
building of the National Museum are sections working in prehistory, history
and archeology, in numismatics and in the history of theatres. There are
exhibitions of prehistory and history of the 19th and 20th century in this
building too. A permanent exhibition of the Historical Museum is located
in the area of the Prague Castle in the Lobkovic Palace.
Open daily,
except Monday, from 9am to 5pm.
admission : adults .......... 40,- CZK, with discount 20,- CZK
Address:
Jiřská Str., Hradčany, Prague 1.
.
The Lapidárium
- tel. : 233 37 56 36
Permanent exposition
of stonework sculptural monuments from Bohemia- 11th-19th centuries.
Open daily,
except Monday, Tue-Fri, 12pm - 6pm, Sat-Sun, 10am-6pm.
Address:
Výstaviště, Pavilion No. 422, Prague 7
admission: 20,-
CZK and 10,- CZK with discount
The Museum
of Physical Training and Sports - tel.: 257 31 18 31
Here are garthered
very interesting and memorable objects of the history of Czechoslovak sports,
mostly of the Sokol Festivals.
Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday - 9am to 5pm
Address:
Tyrš's building, Újezd 450, Malá Strana , Prague 1, Trams: 12, 22 - Helichova
admission: adults
........ 15,- CZK
children .........
7,- CZK
Náprstek's Museum
of Asian , African and American Cultures - tel. : 2 22 22 14
16
Museum is located
in the house " U Halánků ". In 1828 this building became the property of
a family of the well known explorer and humanitarian Vojta Náprstek. In
1858, after returning from America, he established here a large library that, together with the house, he gave to the National Museum
.The foundation
of the collections were created by gifts from Czech travellers Holub, Fric
Kořenský, etc.
The museum in
its permanent exposition offers to visitors unique objects of Indian, Eskimo
and all kinds of Asian and African cultures.
Open daily,
except Monday, 9am to 5:30pm.
Address:
Betlémské náměstí 1, Staré Město, Prague 1, Metro: line B - Národní,
Trams:
6, 9, 18 , 22
admission: adults......
. 40,- CZK, with discount 20,- CZK
children up
to 6 free of charge
The Museum of
Czech Music
The museum is situated
in the Velkopřevorský Palace built by the architect B. Scotti in 1726-28.The
collection of old musical instruments is unique in Europe. The Museum of
Czech Music has these permanent expositions of Bedřich Smetana and of Antonín
Dvořák.
Address:
Lázeňská
2, Malá Strana , Prague 1
The Museum
of Bedřich Smetana
tel.: 22 22 00 82
The museum is
situated in the old former Old Town water house. The collection is dedicated
to the life and work of Bedřich Smetana (1824-84) and is created not only
by many fascimile and of original handwritten papers of Smetana's, but
of photographs, correspondence and the composer's diaries.
Address:
Novotného
lávka 1, Staré Město, Metro: line A - Staroměstská, trams: 17, 18 - Národní
divadlo
Open Wednesday - Monday, 10 am to noon and 12:30 pm to 5 pm
admission: adults
- 50,- CZK, with discount 20,- CZK
The Museum
of Antonín Dvořák - tel.: 24 91 18 013
The museum is
in Michna's summer house from 1932. This house is one of the most beautiful
secular building of Prague Rococo and was built by K.I. Diezenhofer in
1712-20.
There are photographs
and other personal documents together with completed records of this ingenious
Czech composer.
Open daily ,
except Monday, 10am to 5pm.
Address:
Villa Amerika, Ke Karlovu 20, Nové Město, Prague 2, Metro: line C - I. P. Pavlova
admission: adults
- 40,- CZK, with discount 20,- CZK
The Bertramka
- Mozart's document - tel.:
257 31 84
61
Its a place
where lived Mozart during his two stays in Prague in 1787 and 1791. Mozart
was cared for with love by the owners of Bertramka, the music teacher and
composer F.X. Dušek and his wife Josefína, at that time a well known singer.
Mozart composed his opera Don Giovanni here.
The museum of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Dušek's was established in the years 1955-56
,as an exposition of contemporary music and relics here.
The Bertramka
is still place where concerts and other cultural programmes are held.
Open daily from
9:30am to 6pm ( to 5pm on winter ).
Address:
Bertramka,
Mozartova 169, Smíchov, Prague 5, Metro: line B - Anděl, Trams: 4, 9, 34
- Bertramka
The Museum of
the Capital City Prague - tel.: 224 81 67
72
This Neo-Renaissance
building is decorated with reliefs of many good sculptors of the end of
the last century.
This museum
contains materials in connection with the history of Prague, from the prehistorical
beginnings of the settlers to the present time. Part of the permanent exposition
is a remarkable model of Prague, created in the first half of the last
century by a Prague lithographer Antonín Langweil.
Open daily,
except Monday, 9am to 6pm.
Address:
Na
Poříčí 52, Karlín, Metro: line B or C - Florenc
admission: adults
- 30,- CZK , with discount 15,- CZK, family - 45,- CZK
Podskalská celnice
na Výtoni ( Under-The-Rock Customs House)
An exposition of
the Old Podskalí and of the history of Prague steam navigation.
Unfortunately
its now closed for reconstruction.
Address:
Rašínovo
nábřeží 412, Prague 2.
The National
Cultural Monument on Vyšehrad - tel.: 224 92 07
35
A permanent
exposition of the history of Vyšehrad.
Open only in
a summer season from 10am to 5pm .
Address:
Soběslavova
1, Prague 2, Metro C - line Vyšehrad , Trams: 7, 18, 24 - Albertov, 3,
7, 17, 16 - Výtoň
The National
Monument of Literature - tel.:
220 51 66
95
This institution
is a part of the Strahov Monastery, that formerly belonged to the Premonstratensian
Order. The whole complex of the buildings of the monastery was founded
in 1140 during the reign of the King Vladislav II. It was reconstructed
several times. The last large reconstructions were done after the Prussian
war in 1757. The purpose of the monastery was to carry on the wide scientific
work of the Premonstratensians. They also added to it in the 18th century
an extraordinarily beautiful and valuable library. In 1950 the Premonstratensians
were driven out of the monastery and their Order was liquidated. Not until
1990 could they return from exile and take the monastery into their care.
The National
Monument of Literature founded in 1953 as a Museum of Czech Literature
will remain and the collection documenting the development of written words,
books and literature on the history of Czechoslovakia are opened to the
public.
The monastery
library keeps in its care unique illustrated chronical and bibles mainly
from the 16th-18th century, but many are of earlier dates. One of the most
valuable is the Strahov Evangeliary of the 9th century.
Open daily,
except Monday, 9 am to 5pm.
Address:
Strahovské
nádvoří 132, Hradčany, Prague 1, Tram: 22 - Pohořelec
admission: adults
........... ..............................30,- CZK
children, students
and pensioners ........ 15,- CZK
The National
Monument of Literature administers the following museums:
The Museum of
Alois Jirásek - tel.: 233 35 79
38
In the years
1555-56 the son of Ferdinand I the Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol built this summer-house according to his own design. Its name comes from the shape
of the building , a six pointed star, in a very modest style on the outside
without any decorations. That is in contrast with the unusual decoration
of the rooms on the ground floor surrounding the centre hall. On the vault
with 334 fields is a very delicate stucco work, that represents the peak
of this art in this country. During the wars that afflicted Prague this
summer house was demolished and afterwards Josef II turned it into a powder
house; staying this way until 1874, when the Prague Castle took it into
its care. After 1949 this house was reconstructed and turned into a Museum
of Alois Jirásek in 1951 and also a Museum of Mikoláš Aleš in 1964.
Open only in
summer - daily, except Monday, 9am to 5pm.
Address:
Summer-house Hvězda, Bílá Hora , Prague 6
The Arts and
Crafts Museum - tel.: 251 09 31
11
This museum
was founded in 1885 and for a time was situated in the building of Rudolfinum.
Today's Neo-Renaissance building was built in 1897-1900. Here are gathered
industrial and hand craft products. The visitors can only regret that they
won't be able to see the whole display of the collection of jewels, furniture,
textile, glass, porcelain, photographs, and a whole range of other articles.
Open daily,
except Monday, 10am to 6pm.
Address:
17
listopadu 2, Josefov, Prague 1, trams: 17, 18 - Náměstí Jana Palacha
admission: adults
- 80,- CZK
The National
Technical Museum - tel.:
220 39 91
11
The modern buildings
were built for the use of the National Technical Museum on Letná by architect
M. Babuško in 1935-41. An unusually large collection is devided into sections
of mining, chemistry, architecture, technology of transport, film and photography
and time measurement, astronomy and etc.
The visitors
will be mainly attracted by the central hall dedicated to the development
of transportation by oldest automobile " President " made in Kopřivnice
in Moravia, and they will see cars with the mark Bugatti and Mercedes-Benz.
Experts highly praise the display of motorcycles. Hanging from the ceiling
are planes from the earliest date up to ones with rocket motors. An interesting
part of the museum is also the underground mining gallery 600 meters long,
a precise model of a coal-mine including technical equipment.
Open daily,
except Monday, 9am to 5pm.
Address:
Kostelní 42, Prague 7 - Holešovice, Metro: line A - Hradčanská, line C
- Vltavská , Trams: 1, 8,
25, 26 - Letenské
náměstí
admission: adults:
70,- CZK, children - 30,- CZK, family - 150,- CZK
The Military
Museum - tel.: 220 20 23
98
This museum
is located in the area of Prague Castle, in the Schwarzenberg Palace .This
building was built in the Italian Renaissance style, decorated with rich
grafitto in the years 1545-63.
In the museum
are gathered collections from the beginning of historical times until the
founding of the Czechoslovak republic in 1918. You can find all different
kind of weapons, and even the clothing of the Medieval warriors. There
are also documents of the military techniques in the context of the whole
European development of the military. A wonderful collection of army uniforms,
military ranks, flags, original maps and plans of battles. This museum
is a part of the Museum of the Czechoslovak Army and Defense.
Open daily ,
except Monday, May to October from 10am to 6pm ; pre-WWI
Address:
Schwarzenberg
Palace , Hradčanské náměstí 2, Hradčany
The WAX (Ceroplastics)
Museum - tel.: 224 22 98
52
Contains 36
ceroplastics in three halls: that of the Czech history, of famous personages
and of dictators. It was open in 1997.
Open daily,
9am to 8pm
Address:
WAX,
Museum voskových figurín, Str. 28. října 13, Prague 1
admission: adults.......................................
120,- CZK , family : 250,- CZK
children 6 up
to 15 and pensioners .... 60,- CZK
The Museum of
the Czechoslovak Army and Defense - tel.: 220 20 49
24
A museum documenting
military science between the years 1918-1945.
Open daily,
except Monday, 9am to 5pm.
Address:
U
památníku 2, Žižkov,Prague 3, Metro: line B or C - Florenc, bus 133, 207,
504 - U Památníku
Exposition of
Air force and Spaceman ship - tel.:
220 20 75
13
In the area
of the airport visitors can get acquainted with planes for: fighting, transportation,
sports from the early days up to the present.
Open daily,
except Monday, from the May 1st-October 31st, 9am to 5pm.
Address:
Airport, Kbely, Mladoboleslavská, Prague 9
The State Jewish
Museum (Old Jewish Cemetery, synagogues and other buildings in Josefov) -
tel.: 224 81 94
56
This museum
was created during the Second World war in emotionally deep circumstance.
In 1942 in the area of the former Jewish Prague Town , all the relics confiscated
on the territory of the whole Reich were collected. The purpose was to
make museum of an exterminated race. From 1950 the offices and expositions
of the museums are installed in the buildings of the Klaus, the Pinkas,
the Staronová, the Vysoká, the Maiselova and the Spanish Synagogues. Here
are gathered collections of great historical value. The most valued are
the sacral textiles- the capes for tora and the curtains that are unique
in the world.
Open daily,
except Saturday
April - October
9 am to 6 pm
November -
March 9 am to 4:30 pm
Address:
Jáchymova
3, Prague 1, Metro line A - Staroměstská , Trams: 17, 18 - Staroměstská
The Postal Museum
- tel.: 22231 20 06
The exposition
of the Postal Museum was opened on the occasion of the Exhibition of Postal
Stamps " Praha 1988" in the former Vávra house that was famous for ceiling
paintings by J. Navrátil. The painting are done in second Rococo style
and the self portrait of the author is not missing either. It's worth seeing.
Open daily,
except Monday, 9 am to 11:30 pm and 1 pm to 4:30 pm
Address:
Nové
Mlýny 2, Nové Město, Prague 1, Metro: line B - Náměstí Republiky, Trams:
5, 14, 26
Revoluční
admission: adults
- 25,- CZK , children - 10,- CZK
St. Michael
Mystery - tel.: 222 81 81
11
The worldwide
unique multi-media show in the former 800-year old church in the immediate
vicinity of the Old Town Square. For the first time ever, the multi-media
technology, sophisticated audio and musical effects will give the visitors
a chance to participate in the history of Prague.
Open daily 10am-8pm.
Address:
Michalská
27-29, Prague 1, Metro: line A - Můstek or Staroměstská
Škoda Car Museum
location: 56 km
from Prague3
Open daily,
9am-5pm.
Address:
Václava Klementa 294, Mladá Bol.eslav
admission: adults..............................................36,-
CZK
students, pensioners
...........................18,- CZK
extra charge
with English spoken guide
adults............................................100,-
CZK
students, pensioners...........................
50,- CZK
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