PRAGUE CITY LINE Archive:

Museum and Gallery of Cubist Design, in Bauer’s Villa (Muzeum a galerie kubistického designu v Bauerově vile)

23. 5. 2017

THE BAUER’S VILLA in Libodrice, Cubist museum

Visit the cubist Bauer’s villa in a picturesque village of Libodřice, District of Kolín, Central Bohemian Region. In 1912 – 14 a prominent architect Josef Gočár built a family house in cubist style for Adolf Bauer, the tenant and later the owner of the local large estate. Cubism, a new modern style at that time, is very unusual in rural environment. » More »

National Museum of Agriculture (Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha)

15. 5. 2017

National Museum of Agriculture (Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha)

The museum building is an important monument of Czech functionalism, located near Letná Park. Visiting the museum is an excursion into the field of agriculture, with which the people living the centre of Prague really do not come across. The whole exhibition is conceived as a story that leads the visitor through the history of the hard work of farmers. Temporary exhibitions are also held here.
» More »

National Technical Museum (Národní technické muzeum)

15. 5. 2017

National Technical Museum (Národní technické muzeum)

At the edge of the Letná park, in front of the National Technical Museum, stands the oldest floored carousel in Europe. The National Technical Museum is planning to restore the carousel’s structural parts in the immediate future, which, however, will not be enough to restore the carousel to a fully functioning state
» More »

Lapidary of the National Museum (Lapidárium Národního muzea)

15. 5. 2017

Lapidary of the National Museum (Lapidárium Národního muzea)

The Lapidarium of the National Museum exhibition called “The monuments of stone carving in Bohemia from the 11th to 19th Century” informs visitors about the methods of mining, with the utilisation and processing of rocks used for stone carving, and about the care of damaged stone artefacts in the introductory display cases.
» More »

The Old wastewater treatment (Stará čistírna odpadních vod)

15. 5. 2017

The Old wastewater treatment (Stará čistírna odpadních vod)

The old sewage treatment plant in Prague – Bubenec is an important site for documenting the history od architecture, engineering and water management. It was built between 1901 and 1906 as the final part of the Prague sewer system.
» More »

Prague Public Transport Museum (Muzeum MHD)

15. 5. 2017

Prague Public Transport Museum (Muzeum MHD)

Located in the tram depot in Prague-Střešovice is a unique collection of artefacts from the history of urban mass transit in the capital city of the Czech Republic.
» More »

The Ethnographic Museum (Musaion – národopisné muzeum)

15. 5. 2017

The Ethnographic Museum (Musaion – národopisné muzeum)

Permanent ethnographical exhibition presents life of Czech rural communities in the 18th, 19th and the first half of the 20th century and describes traditional folk culture of historical Czech lands – Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
» More »

The Kingdom of Railways (Království železnic)

15. 5. 2017

The Kingdom of Railways (Království železnic)

There are hundreds of metres of tracks waiting for you at Smíchov, tens of models of trains or models of cars that give each other way at crossings.
» More »

The Gas Industry Museum

15. 5. 2017

The Gas Industry Museum (Plynárenské muzeum)

The Gas Museum is located in one of the historic technological buildings of the Michle gasworks, built from 1925-1927. This technical museum acquaints visitors with the history and development of the gas industry in the world and in the Czech Republic, from its very beginnings to the present day.
» More »

Museum Prague Waterworks (Muzeum pražského vodárenství)

15. 5. 2017

Museum Prague Waterworks (Muzeum pražského vodárenství)

The museum is located at the Podolí Waterworks Museum – a listed unique example of industrial architecture. From the observation deck of the tower at a height of 40 m you get an unusual view of the river and city.
» More »