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Black Madonna House - Museum of Czech cubism [1][2][3][4][5]
[Black Madonna House - Museum of Czech cubism ]

Permanent exhibition:

Czech cubism (painting, sculpture, applied art, architecture) is located in the most prominent cubistic building of Prague built by the architect J. Gocár in the early 20th century.

Ceremonial Hall - Jewish Museum [1][2][3][4][5]
[Ceremonial Hall - Jewish Museum ]
  • U Starého hrbitova 3a, 110 00 Praha 1 - Staré Mesto/Josefov
  • Zone: Prague 1
  • zmp@ecn.cz
  • www.jewishmuseum.cz
  • 29. October - 24. March from 9 to 16.30 Sunday - Friday 26. March - 27. October from 9 to 18 Sunday - Friday

Present at the establishment of the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1906 were the historian Dr. Hugo Lieben and Dr. Augustin Stein, the representative of the Czech Jewish movement and later head of the Prague Jewish Community. The original aim was to preserve valuable artefacts from the Prague synagogues that had been demolished during the reconstruction of the Jewish Town at the beginning of the 20th century. The Museum was closed to the public after the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia on 15 March 1939. In 1942 the Nazis established the Central Jewish Museum, to which were shipped artefacts from all the liquidated Jewish communities and synagogues of Bohemia and Moravia.

Ctenice Castle (Zámek Ctenice) [1][2][3][4][5]
[Ctenice Castle (Zámek Ctenice)]
  • Bohdanecská 1, 190 17 Praha 9 - Vinor
  • Zone: Prague 9
  • 286 853 385
  • April from 10 to 18 Saturday, Suunday May - October from 10 to 18 daily

Originally a Gothic citadel was founded in the middle of the 14th century, now after general reconstruction open to the public.
Permanent exhibition of old carriages, gigs, stage-coaches and other coaches from the 18th, 19th and from the beginning of the 20th century.
Ctenice castle may be one of Prague sights that are less well known but have nonetheless a lot to offer. This article therefore gives you a possible trip suggestion.
Ctenice with its over seven hundred years old history can be proud of two exhibitions. The first one is devoted to Habsburg dynasty whereas the other one contains historical sleighs and carriages. The oldest carriage is almost three hundred years old – it was built in year 1720.

Permanent exposition: “Under Muttonchops and Frock Coat - The Habsburgs and the Czech Lands 1791 - 1914”.

Kinský Summerhouse - Musaion [1][2][3][4][5]
[Kinský Summerhouse - Musaion ]
  • Kinského zahrada 98 - Letohrádek Kinských, 150 00 Praha 5 - Smíchov
  • Zone: Prague 5
  • 257 325 766
  • jirina_langhammerova@nm.cz
  • www.nm.cz
  • October - April, 9 - 17.30, Tuesday - Sunday May - September, 10 - 17, Tuesday - Sunday

The summerhouse situated under Petrín Hill in a beautiful English park with small lakes and interesting structures was built for the prince Kinský in Classicist style in 1827.
At present, there is an ethnographic exhibition there focused on people’s art and folkways - folk costumes, furniture, ceramics, common necessaries, wood carvings, underpainting on glass, embroideries.

Klaus Synagogue - Jewish Museum [1][2][3][4][5]
[Klaus Synagogue - Jewish Museum ]
  • U Starého hrbitova 1, 110 00 Praha 1 - Staré Mesto/Josefov
  • Zone: Prague 1
  • 222 310 302
  • zmp@ecn.cz
  • www.jewishmuseum.cz
  • 29. October - 24. March 9 - 16.30 Sunday - Friday 26. March - 27. October 9 - 18 Sunday - Friday

Permanent exhibition:

Jewish customs and traditions.

Lobkowicz Palace (Lobkovický palác NM) [1][2][3][4][5]
[Lobkowicz Palace (Lobkovický palác NM)]

Built in the 16th century by the Pernstejn family, since 1627 a property of the Lobkowicz family. Baroque modifications were done by Carlo Lurago (1651 - 1668).

Permanent exhibition:
Monuments of the national history; Lobkowicz Palace history; treasure of St. Eligius
closed

Loreta [1][2][3][4][5]
[Loreta]

A remarkable place consisting of a cloister, the church of the Lord’s Birth, a Holy Hut and clock tower with a world famous chime that has been situated in Prague Hradčany for more than 300 years.
A Marian pilgrimage place with a copy of the Italian Santa Casa (G. Orsi, 1626 - 1627) including also the baroque Church of the Nativity of Our Lord (K. I. Dienzenhofer, 1734 - 1735). The ground is encircled by a cloister and chapels. The spire houses a carillon which consist of 27 Loreta bells which tune a Marian song We Greet You a Thousand Times (every hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.). The most valuable item of the liturgical treasury is the so-called Loreta Treasure, a collection of sacral object from the 16th to 18th centuries. The most famous of these is the Diamond Monstrance adorned with 6 222 diamonds.

Maisel Synagogue - Jewish Museum [1][2][3][4][5]
[Maisel Synagogue - Jewish Museum ]
  • Maiselova 8 – 10, 110 00 Praha 1 - Staré Mesto/Josefov
  • Zone: Prague 1
  • 224 819 456
  • zmp@ecn.cz
  • www.jewishmuseum.cz
  • 29. October - 24. March, 9 - 16.30, Sunday - Friday 26. March - 27. October, 9 - 18, Sunday - Friday

The neo-Gothic synagogue replaced a Renaissance original built by Maisel and destroyed by fire.

Permanent exhibition:
History of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia from the beginning of colonization till the beginning of emancipation.

Memorial Museum Mozart and Mr. and Mrs. Dusek [1][2][3][4][5]
[Memorial Museum Mozart and Mr. and Mrs. Dusek ]

A villa from the latter half of the 17th century where W. A. Mozart stayed during his visits to Prague in 1787 and 1791. There he finished the opera Don Giovanni.

National Museum (NÁRODNÍ MUZEUM - hlavní budova) [1][2][3][4][5]
[National Museum (NÁRODNÍ MUZEUM - hlavní budova)]
  • Václavské námestí 68, 115 79 Praha 1 - Nové Mesto
  • Zone: Prague 1
  • 224 497 111
  • nm@nm.cz
  • www.nm.cz
  • May - September from 10 to 18 daily October - April from 9 to 17 daily closed on first Tuesdays of the month every first Monday in a month no charge for admission

The largest and oldest Czech museum founded in 1818 is housed in a monumental neo-renaissance building from the years 1885 - 1890 that dominates the Wenceslas Square.

Permanent exhibitions:
Primeval history of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia * Mineralogical and petrological collections * Zoological collections * Palaeontological collection * Anthropological collection.

Old Jewish Cemetery - Jewish Museum [1][2][3][4][5]
[Old Jewish Cemetery - Jewish Museum ]
  • Siroká 3, 110 01 Praha 1 - Staré Mesto/Josefov
  • Zone: Prague 1
  • www.jewishmuseum.cz
  • 29. October - 24. March from 9 to 16.30 Sunday - Friday 26. March - 27. October from 9 to 18 Sunday - Friday

Established in the mid-15th century it served as a burial site till 1787. Among 12 000 gothic, renaisance and baroque tombstones are also those of Rabbi Jehuda Löw (1609) and Mordechai Maisel (1601).

Pinkas Synagogue - Jewish Museum [1][2][3][4][5]
[Pinkas Synagogue - Jewish Museum]
  • Siroká ulice 3, 110 00 Praha 1 - Staré Mesto/Josefov
  • Zone: Prague 1
  • 222 326 660
  • zmp@ecn.cz
  • www.jewishmuseum.cz
  • 29. October - 24. March from 9 - 16.30 Sunday - Friday 26. March - 27. October from 9 to 18 Sunday - Friday

Permanent exhibition:
A memorial to 77 297 victims of the Nazi holocaust. Drawings of childern from Terezin concentration camp.

Spanish Synagogue - Jewish Museum [1][2][3][4][5]
[Spanish Synagogue - Jewish Museum ]

Permanent exhibition:
History of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia since their emancipation until now

Summerhouse Hvezda (Letohrádek Hvezda) [1][2][3][4][5]
[Summerhouse Hvezda (Letohrádek Hvezda)]

In the middle of the 16th century, a Renaissance summer hunting-seat in the Imperial Game Preserve (at present Hvezda Game Preserve) was built by the Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol according the plans drawn by him on the hexagram ground plan in a spirit of then symbolism and opinions of a construction of the universe. This unique structure in a spacious game preserve laid out as an English park with three alleys is a national monument.
There is a permanent exhibition concerning this interesting building there as well as a model of the battle of White Mountain (8th November 1620) and occasional exhibitions of the Museum of Czech Literature.

The National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydric [1][2][3][4][5]
[The National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydric]

A Place of Reconciliation. The Orthodox Cathedral of Ss. Cyril and Methodus (Národní památník hrdinu heydrichiády - místo smírení. Sv. Cyril a Metodej - pravoslavný katedrální chrám)

Permanent exhibition:
The scene of the fight of the Czechoslovak parachutists who performed a military assignment imposed on them by the London exile government during the Second World War. Depiction of post-Heydrich terror.

Vila of Loos - Vila of Müller - Prague City Museum [1][2][3][4][5]
[Vila of Loos - Vila of Müller - Prague City Museum]

The family house of ing. Frantisek Müller constructed by the design of the architects Adolf Loos and Karel Lhota in 1928 - 30 in the functionalist style; sightseeing of interiors and exhibition of the work of A. Loos.

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