Nov 10 2011
Museums tour in Prague
Summary: the 5 more important museums of Prague that you can’t miss. Here you will find practical information about what to see, how to get there and some tickets prices.
Prague is a city full of culture with a great number of interesting museums that you can visit either alone or with the family or friends.
The main museum is the National Museum (Narodní Museum in Czech), it is located in forn of the most important square of Prague Venceslas Square witch is served by the red line of the subway. Here you can visit the following permanent exhibitions: Primeval history of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, Mineralogical & petrological collections, Zoological collections, Palaeontological collection and the Anthropological collection. At any time of the year you will always find as well a temporary thematic exhibition. The museum is open from 10am to 5pm and the tickets prices are 40 Kč for adults and 20 Kč is the price for a discounted ticket. The area of the museum offer you lots of Hotels in Prague with great view to this Square and to the museum that will make you stay more pleasant.
The second most important is the Jewish Museum, the Jewish Quarter of Prague is situated in between the Old Town Square (Staré Mesto), served by the green line of subway of the same name, and the Vltava River. The complex integrates Pinkas Synagogues, Klausen Synagogue, High Synagogue, Maisel Synagogue, Spanish Synagogue, the Jewish Town Hall and the Old Jewish Cemetery that you can visit under one single ticket you should buy in the start of the rote.
An other museum that you definitely can’t miss is the Kafka’s museum that is situated in a very nice and calm part of Prague, the closest subway station is Malostranska and the address is Hergetova Cihelna, Cihelná 2b 110 00 Prague1, the price of the tickets is 120kc for adults and 60kc for students, seniors and disabled persons. It certainly isn’t a regular boring and full of enormous poster to simply read. The museum is usually compared to a conception of Kafka’s world, something like the recreation of his own sub-conscient. During the journey you will undertake good and bad feelings provoked by light games or strange mirrors that lead you nowhere, odd walls and stairs, different textures and fabrics.
The Mucha Museum is a place where you can get to know the life and work of the world-acclaimed Czech Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), is housed in the Baroque Kaunický Palace in the very heart of Prague: Kaunický palác, Panská 7 being the closet subways station Mustek in the green or yellow line. The museum is open form 10am to 6pm and has a great gift shop.
There is also the Museum of Decorative Arts witch is housed in a fin-de-siècle building which is itself a work of art, was founded in 1885 to display exquisite examples of European decorative arts that tread a fine line between fine and applied art. Simply a part of the museum’s collection is exhibited, but the pieces on display are superb, including a range of beautiful Bohemian glass and ceramics. The museum is located in Listopada 2 in the Old Town Square and it is open from 10am to 6pm.
These are the five must-go museums of Prague where you can gain a lot of new knowledge about arts as well as influent artists of the Czech Republic.