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Events in Art and Archaeology

Mucha Museum
PRAGUE  •  Kaunicky Palace  •  Ongoing
 
 
A new museum devoted to the Art Nouveau creations of the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939).

Contact: Tel: (42) 2 628 41 62

National Gallery: Asian Art Collection
PRAGUE  •  National Gallery  •  Currently on view
 
 
Situated just outside Prague in the Zbraslav Castle, this new collection represents 40 years of acquisitions and includes 1500 works and objects from China, India, Japan, Southeast Asia Tibet and the Near East.

Contact: Tel: (42) 02 20 51 45 99

Events in Pop Culture and Cinema

Photo courtesy of Museum of Communism
Photo courtesy of Museum of Communism
Museum of Communism
PRAGUE  •  Museum of Communism  •  6 October 2006 - 1 January 2010
 
 

Housed in the Palace Savarin just off Wenceslas Square and adjacent to Mc-Donald's, the Museum of Communism is the work of American businessman Glenn Spicker who owns bagel shops and bars in Prague. The Museum's three sections, the Dream, the Reality and the Nightmare include secret police surveillance equipment and an interrogation cell, propaganda material, posters and a class-room with communist school books, statues of Lenin and Stalin, a number of sub-standard goods and consumer products that one associates with communism in Eastern and Central Europe and a display devoted to the 1989 Velvet Revolution. 



Museum of Communism Web Site


Contact: Na Příkopě 10
Prague 1
Tel: (42) 224 21 29 66



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