Prague City Museum
The Museum of the City of Prague ( Muzeum hlavního města Prahy ) is a municipal cultural institution in Prague . The main building is in Florenc , in the part of New Town belonging to Prague 8 . The museum oversees a number of other historical and tourist objects in the city and was visited by 1,421,539 people in 2016.
history
In the 1870s, efforts were made by the city administration to protect valuable documents and monuments from Prague's history from being sold out and to collect and present them in a city museum. The idea came mainly from the architects Josef Mocker and Antonín Baum and the historian Hugo Toman . The city council had the proposals examined by the historian Václav Vladivoj Tomek and established a permanent committee in 1881. The so-called coffee house pavilion ( kavárenský pavilon ) at its current location was purchased and the museum opened on May 12, 1983. Above all, Antonín Wiehl did a great job expanding the holdings .
The pavilion soon proved to be much too small, which is why a new building was built right next to it between 1896 and 1898. Antonín Balšánek planned it in the neo-renaissance style . A tympanum by Ladislav Šaloun closes the dominant central projection . In 1970 the pavilion was demolished for the construction of a road.
Collections
The Prague Capital Museum has an archaeological and historical collection. It shows permanent exhibitions on the history of Prague in the prehistoric times, the Middle Ages, the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age and the Baroque. A special exhibit is the detailed paper model of the city by Antonín Langweil . The museum publishes the Archaeologica Pragensia magazine every two years and has a library.
More buildings
The museum looks after several of the famous Prague towers, for which it offers a joint ticket. He also owns smaller museums with a special thematic focus.
- Lookout tower and mirror labyrinth on Petřín
- Old Town Bridge Tower
- Lesser Town Bridge Tower
- Powder tower
- Bell tower of the Church of St. Nicholas on the Lesser Town
- Ctěnice Castle
- Villa Müller
- Villa Rothmayer
- Study and Documentation Center Norbertov
- Customs house Výtoň of the former Podskalí settlement, museum of rafting on the Vltava
- Dům U Zlatého prstenu (House of the Golden Ring), town planning and urbanism with a focus on Charles IV.
- Lower Neustädter water tower, exhibition about historical city fires and fire brigade
Web links
- Museum website (Czech / English)
- Prague Capital Museum - the city's tourist portal
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 24 ″ N , 14 ° 26 ′ 19 ″ E