Museums in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

Museum institutions

Art museums and galleries

Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague Founded in 1885, the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts ( cz, Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum v Praze or UPM) is housed in a Neo-Renaissance edifice built from 1897 to 1899 after the designs of architect Josef Schulz. It opened in 1900 with exhibitions ...

Galerie Rudolfinum The Rudolfinum is a building in Prague, Czech Republic. It is designed in the neo-renaissance style and is situated on Jan Palach Square on the bank of the river Vltava. Since its opening in 1885, it has been associated with music and art. Cur ...

National Gallery Prague The National Gallery Prague ( cz, Národní galerie Praha, NGP), formerly the National Gallery in Prague (), is a state-owned art gallery in Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Cze ...

Convent of Saint Agnes The convent of Saint Agnes is situated on the right bank of Vltava, in Prague Old Town area called „Na Františku“. The monastery of Poor Clares of the Order of Saint Clare and Franciscans was founded in 1231 Soukupová 1989, p. 47. by Agnes ...

** ** ** Kinský Palace ** ** ** * Galerie Cesty ke světlu *

House of the Black Madonna The House of the Black Madonna (Czech: ''U Černé Matky Boží'') is a cubist building in the Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by Josef Gočár. The first floor houses a café, while the four upper floors are used by the Museum ...

Josef Sudek Gallery The Josef Sudek Gallery ( cs, Galerie Josefa Sudka) is near Hradčany (Úvoz 24) in Prague, in a house where Josef Sudek (b. 1896 Kolín, d. 1976 Prague) lived from 1959 until his death. Part of his photographic output was transferred to the MDA in ...

Museum Kampa Museum Kampa is a modern art gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, showing Central European, and in particular Czech work. The pieces are from the private collection of Meda Mládek, wife of Jan V. Mládek. The museum opened in 2003 and is housed ...

* The Václav Špála Gallery * DOX Center for Contemporary Art

Cultural and historical museums

* City of Prague Museum *

National Museum A national museum is a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In other countries a much greater numb ...

Lapidarium, Prague The Lapidarium is a lapidarium and a part of the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest permanent exhibition of historical collections of stone sculpture, tombs and architectonical fragments originating from Bohemia, mos ...

** Náprstek Museum ** ** *

Jewish Museum in Prague The Jewish Museum in Prague (Czech: Židovské muzeum v Praze) is a museum of Jewish heritage in the Czech Republic and one of the most visited museums in Prague. Its collection of Judaica is one of the largest in the world, about 40,000 obje ...

Ceremonial Hall of the Prague Jewish Burial Society The Ceremonial hall of the Prague Jewish Burial Society was built for the last service to the deceased members of the Prague Jewish Community. It is used as an exhibition space administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague. The building is an excel ...

** Maisel Synagogue ** Pinkas Synagogue * Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral (The National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror) * * *

Memorial museums and commemorative collections

* Antonín Dvořák Museum * Bedřich Smetana Museum *

Bertramka Bertramka () is a villa in Prague notable because of possible visits by Mozart. Now it is a museum dedicated to the memory of Mozart and to the former owners and Mozart’s hosts: František and Josefina Dušek. Background It is little known ...

: Mozart Museum

Technical and natural-history museums

* National Technical Museum (Prague) ** Kepler Museum *

Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely Kbely Aviation Museum (''Letecké Muzeum Kbely'') is the largest aviation museum in the Czech Republic and one of the largest of its kind in Europe. It is located to the north-east of Prague, at the military airport Kbely. Creation of the museum ...

* Czech Police Museum * * *{{Interlanguage link, Public Transport Museum in Prague, cs, Muzeum městské hromadné dopravy v Praze

Tourist attractions