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  • Dvořák Museum
    Dvořák Museum

    This Baroque palace houses the 19th-century composer’s piano and viola, as well as other memorabilia of his life and work (see Antonin Dvořák).

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  • Galerie Mánes

    Occupying the southern tip of Žofín Island, this contemporary art gallery hosts both Czech and foreign artists.

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  • Mucha Museum

    Art Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha is a national hero. Here you’ll find his journals, sketchbooks and paintings, both private and commercial.

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  • Museum of Communism

    A triptych of the dream, reality and nightmare that was Communist Czechoslovakia. To fill the museum, its creators combed the country for mementos of its totalitarian past.

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  • Museum of the City of Prague

    Visitors can explore 19th-century Prague with Antonín Langweil’s scaled replica of the city.

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  • National Museum

    Palaeontology, mineralogy and a host of other “ologies”. The museum’s collections are scattered throughout the country, but the Wenceslas Square edifice is a cultural artifact in its own right.

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  • Oskar Kokoschka Gallery

    The gallery of the Austrian Cultural Institute highlights the shared cultural heritage of Prague and Vienna. Shows have included retrospectives of Oskar Kokoschka and Gustav Klimt.

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  • Police Museum

    The museum documents the police’s efforts with engaging exhibits, such as an interactive crime scene.

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  • Postage Stamp Museum

    Philatelists’ mouths water over this one. Its exhibitions illustrate the colourful history of postage stamps in the Czech Republic and Europe. Sells commemorative sheets and graphic works too.

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  • Wax Museum Praha

    Madame Tussaud’s, it isn’t, but its collection includes the best – and likely only – waxwork representations of President Václav Havel, tennis star Martina Navrátilová and author Franz Kafka.

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