Prague accommodation near Narodni muzeum
Aparthotel GEO, Prague 3 - Vinohrady is situated conveniently in the city center in a quiet area near a metro station, just 15 minutes walk from Wenceslave Square. The hotel has 33 rooms for 1-4 persons and 5 apartments, some of them equipped with kitchen. Satellite TV, direct dial phone, radio, minibar and a comfortable bathroom with a toilet are in the all apartments. In the price is breakfast – buffet included. Safe park place for your car is possible.
Aparthotel GEO is 80 m from Narodni muzeum.
Prague Pension Museum, is 3 star guesthouse in Prague with perfectly positioned in the very centre of Prague, a few steps from Wenceslas Square and in close proximity to the State Opera. It is a building that admirably belongs among the surroundings of historic Prague. Museum Hotel is a 5-minute walk from Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske namesti).
Hotel Museum is 110 m from Narodni muzeum.
Wenceslas Square Hotel is 3 star hotel in Prague historic centre, just a few steps from Wenceslas Square, the National Museum, and the State Opera House, and not far from the Old Town Square and Charles Bridge.
Wenceslas Square Hotel is 120 m from Narodni muzeum.
Royal Plaza Hotel is located in the right center of Prague, Vinohrady. Hotel offers accommodation in 2-bedded to 4-bedded rooms. The entire building is available to connect to free wifi. Hotel has nonstop front desk.
Royal Plaza Hotel is 160 m from Narodni muzeum.
K+K Fenix Hotel, from category 4 star hotels, is situated in centre of Prague. The impressive architecture in the “Prague Modern” style, fronts a stylish hotel with a cheerful and exclusive atmosphere. Many of Prague’s best-known tourist attractions as Wenceslal Square (Vaclavske namesti) , museums, shops and restaurants are just minutes away from this hotel in Prague.
K+K Hotel Fenix is 210 m from Narodni muzeum.
Prague Hotel Downtown is a new luxurious Prague hotel is located in the very heart of Prague city, only few minutes walking from the main tourist boulevard - Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske namesti Praha). Our five-floor sunny hotel with access for disabled people offers Prague accommodation in 59 elegant and fully air-conditioned rooms. All rooms have LCD satellite TV, direct-dial telephone, high-speed Internet connection, mini-bar, safe-deposit box and bathroom.
Hotel Downtown is 210 m from Narodni muzeum.
Praha Hotel Deminka Palace is from category 4 star Prague hotel, located in Prague city center, near the National Museum. Deminka Palace hotel is within walking distance from most of the historical and cultural sights of Prague such as the Old Town Square, Tyn Cathedral, Wenceslas Square, the National Theater, Namesti Miru, the National Library. Deminka Palace hotel represents the meeting point between history and modernity, art and wellness, past and future.
Deminka Palace Hotel is 220 m from Narodni muzeum.
Bohemia Plaza Residence Praha, from category 4 star Prague hotels, is located in the Prague centre. Only 300 meters from the Wenceslas Square and the National Museum. Hotel is in an ideal location for business and leisure commuters, only a short walk from the most famous monuments - Charles Bridge, Prague New Town and Old Town Square.
Bohemia Plaza Residence is 250 m from Narodni muzeum.
Prague Hotel Sonata is a luxurious four-star Prague hotel located in the very centre of the city, just a few steps from the Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske namesti Praha), provides its guests with an ideal base for their satisfactory and trouble-free stay in Prague. To its guests the hotel offers Prague accommodation in 55 modernly and comfortable furnished rooms (1 handicap room) which are equipped with LCD TV/SAT, telephone with direct dial-up, high-speed internet connection.
Hotel Sonata is 260 m from Narodni muzeum.
Hotel Seven Days Praha, from category 4 star hotels in Prague, is situated in close to the heart of Prague - Wenceslas Square, the hotel is in walking distance of any historical site worth your attention.
Hotel Seven Days is 260 m from Narodni muzeum.
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Narodni muzeum
The National museum (Czech: Národní muzeum) is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded 1818 in Prague by Kašpar Maria Šternberg. Historian František Palacký was also strongly involved. At present the National Museum houses almost 14 million items from the area of natural history, history, arts, music and librarianship, located in tens of buildings.
The National museum (Czech: Národní muzeum) is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded 1818 in Prague by Kašpar Maria Šternberg. Historian František Palacký was also strongly involved.
At present the National Museum houses almost 14 million items from the area of natural history, history, arts, music and librarianship, located in tens of buildings.
Origins
The founding of the National Museum should be seen in the context of the times, where after the French Revolution, royal and private collections of art, science, and culture were being made available to the public. The beginnings of the museum can be seen as far back as 1796, when the private Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts was founded by Count Casper Sternberk-Manderschied and a group of other prominent nobles. The avowed purpose of the society was “the renewed promotion of art and taste”, and during the time of Joseph II, it would be adamantly opposed to the King. In 1800 the group founded the Academy of Fine Arts, which would train students in progressive forms of art and history.
The National Museum in Prague
The National Museum in Prague was founded on April 15, 1818, with the first president of the Society of the Patriotic Museum being named Count Sternberk, which would serve as the trustee and operator of the museum. Early on, the focus of the museum was centered on natural sciences, partially because Count Sternberk was a botanist, mineralogist, and eminent phytopaleontologist, but also because of the natural science slant of the times, as perpetrated by Emperor Joseph II of Austria.
The museum was originally located in the Sternberg Palace but it was soon apparent that this was too small to hold the museum's collections. The museum relocated to the Nostitz Palace but this was also found to be of insufficient capacity which led to the decision to construct a new building for the museum in Wenceslas Square.
The museum did not become interested in the acquisition of historical objects until the 1830s and 40s, when Romanticism became prevalent, and the institution of the museum was increasingly seen as a center for Czech nationalism. Serving as historian and secretary of the National Museum in 1841, Frantisek Palacky would try to balance natural science and history, as he described in his Treatise of 1841. It was a difficult task, however, and it would not be until nearly a century later until the National Museum’s historical treasures equaled its collection of natural science artifacts.
However, the importance of the museum was not in its focus, but rather that it signaled, and indeed helped bring about, an intellectual shift in Prague. The Bohemian nobility had, until this time, been prominent, indeed dominant, both politically and fiscally in scholarly and scientific groups. However, the National Museum was created to serve all the inhabitants of the land, lifting the stranglehold the nobility had had on knowledge. This was further accelerated by the historian Frantisek Palacky, who in 1827 suggested that the museum publish separate journals in German and Czech. Previously, the vast majority of scholarly journals were written in German, but within a few years the German journal had ceased publication, while the Czech journal continued for more than a century.
In 1949, the national government took over the museum, and spelled out its role and leadership in the Museum and Galleries Act of 1959. In May 1964, the Museum was turned into an organization of five professionally autonomous components: the Museum of Natural Science, the Historical Museum, the Naprstek Museum of Asia, African, and American Cultures, the National Museum Library, the Central Office of Museology. A sixth autonomous unit, the Museum of Czech Music, was established in 1976.
Main building
The main museum building is located on the upper end of Wenceslas Square and was built by prominent Czech neo-renaissance architect Josef Schulz from 1885 - 1891;before this the museum had been temporarily based at several noblemen’s palaces. With the construction of a permanent building for the museum, a great deal of work which had previously been devoted to ensuring that the collections would remain intact was now put toward collecting new materials.
The building was damaged during World War II in 1945 by a bomb, but the collections were not damaged because they had been moved to other storage sites. The museum reopened after intensive repairs in 1947, and in 1960 exterior night floodlighting was installed, which followed a general repair of the facade that had taken place in previous years.
During the 1968 Warsaw Pact intervention the main facade was severely damaged by strong Soviet machine-gun and automatic submachine-gun fire. The shots made numerous holes in sandstone pillars and plaster, destroyed stone statues and reliefs and also caused damage in some of the depositaries. Despite the general facade repair made between 1970 - 1972 the damage still can be seen because the builders used lighter sandstone to repair the bullet holes.
The main Museum building was also damaged during the construction of the Prague Metro in 1972 and 1978. The Opening of the North-South Highway in 1978 on two sides of building resulted in the museum being cut off from city infrastructure. This also lead to the building suffering from an excessive noise level, a dangerously high level of dust and constant vibrations from heavy road traffic.
Reconstruction
Due to major renovations the museum will be closed until 2016. Some seven million items had to be removed to the museum’s depositories in what has been dubbed the biggest moving of museum collections in Czech history.
