Exhibitions and events

In 2020, the exhibitions of the National Museum were significantly affected by the ongoing pandemic, which made its buildings inaccessible to the public for a large part of the year. Nevertheless, during the period in which restrictions were loosened, the unique international exhibition Kings of the Sun, which documents the greatest archaeological discoveries of Czech Egyptologists in Abusir, was opened in the Museum Complex of the National Museum on Wenceslas Square.  The exhibition 1620. Road to the Mountain commemorated the 400^th anniversary of one of the most famous battles in the history of the Czech lands.  The exhibition Music Menagerie at the Czech Museum of Music showed music lovers parallels between art and the animal kingdom, and the exhibition Famous Czech Composers in the Museum Complex presented the greats of Czech music in a slightly non-standard comic and audio-visual design. Those interested in non-European cultures were able to visit the unique exhibition At Home in Siberia and get to know the environment of many nations that have been able to adapt to demanding natural conditions.

In 2020, we managed to open the first part of the newly built exhibitions in the Museum Complex of the National Museum, namely the Hall of Minerals, which represents the most interesting and beautiful pieces of the mineralogical collection through more than 4,000 exhibits. In the exhibition it is possible to see, for example, several shapes of gold, silver, diamonds or graphite in pure form.

In response to the restrictions caused by the epidemic, in 2020 the National Museum launched its new on-line exhibition project called Virtual Tour of the Museum. As part of this project, 20 exhibitions were converted from individual buildings into digital form. These on-line exhibitions allow visitors to learn about interesting topics and objects from the safety and comfort of their own home.

The Museum Complex of the National Museum

Long-term Exhibition - Hall of Minerals

Exhibitions

• The secret life of collections: Mongolia and Buddhism
• Kings of the Sun
• Famous Czech Composers 
• Treasures of the Numismatic Collections
• 1620. Road to the Mountain
• Memory Tools
• The Czech National Uprising
• Symbols
• They call me a lion
• Treasures of World Philately
• Corona in the Museum!
• Milan Rastislav Štefánik. The General – The Liberator
• OSA 100
• The Knights of The Heaven
• We stick together

Náprstek Museum

Long-term exhibition

• Cultures of Australia and Oceania
• Vojta Náprstek - Panel exhibition

Exhibitions

• In Her Own Voice
• On the Banks of the Nile
• The Kam Craftswomen from China
• At Home in Siberia
• In the Footsteps of the Asian Journey of Hanzelka and Zikmund
• The World in a Showcase
  • Alois Richard Nykl: The real Jára Cimrman
  • Karolina Světlá: Authentic objects from the estate
  • Demonstration of restoration work
  • The Legend Miloslav Stingl

National Memorial on the Vítkov Hill

Long-term exhibition

• Crossroads of Czech and Czechoslovak Statehood
• Laboratory of Power

Exhibitions

• The Army in the Uprising - Slovak National Uprising 1944
• Subcarpathian Russia - Part of our history
• Otto Matoušek: Drawings from the Concentration Camp
• Nurses of the Czechoslovak Red Cross in Great Britain 1939–1945
• For women’s suffrage!
• ReporTvář Julia Fučíka
• We want to be free, we will be free!
• Parliament!

Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum

Exhibition - Czech Folk Culture

Exhibitions

• A Century of Tramping
• The Old Ukraine of František Řehoř
• The Art of Wicker
• DO-IT-YOURSELF ACTIVITIES: From self-help to DIY
• Folk faith

Czech Museum of Music

Long-term exhibition

• Man - Instrument - Music 

 Exhibitions

• Import / Export / Rock'n'roll
• Music Menagerie
• Antonín Dvořák Museum
• Long-term exhibition 
• The Journeys of Antonín Dvořák 
• Bedřich Smetana Museum
• Long-term exhibition
• Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) 
• Exhibitions
• The Bride Bartered Abroad 

Jaroslav Ježek Memorial

Exhibition – The Blue Room

Bedřich Smetana Memorial

Long-term exhibition

Josef Suk Memorial

Long-term exhibition

Lapidary of the National Museum

Exhibition - The Monuments of Stone Carving in Bohemia from the 11^th to 19^th Century

Memorial to František Palacký and František Ladislav Rieger

Long-term exhibition

Jan Palach Memorial

Long-term exhibition

Museum of Czech Puppets and Circus

Long-term exhibition

Exhibitions

• UNI...What? UNIMA! 90 years / 100 countries / 1 passion
• Please Enter Our Theatre
• Approximation - People and Large Carnivores of Šumava

 

Vrchotovy Janovice Chateau

Long-term exhibition

• Czech Bell Founding
• Society in 19^th century in Bohemia
• Rilke, Kraus and Vrchotovy Janovice

Exhibitions

• “My great Janovice, my heart is free, I give it to you in its entirety”   

The Hana and Edvard Beneš villa in Sezimovo Ústí

Long-term exhibition

Exhibition - Returns