#1 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Czech National Museum (Narodni Muzeum)
Prague
~0.08 miles from Prague city center
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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.
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Prague State Opera
Prague
~0.16 miles from Prague city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske Namesti)
Prague
~0.26 miles from Prague city center
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Wenceslas Square is one of the main city squares and the centre of the business and cultural communities in the New Town of Prague, Czech Republic.
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Mucha Museum
Prague
~0.32 miles from Prague city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Stare Mesto
Prague
~0.37 miles from Prague city center
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Black Theatre Prague Animato
Prague
~0.43 miles from Prague city center
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We would like to invite you to the unique nonverbal black theatre performance, which would allow you to forget a workday routine in this over mechanized world for a while.
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Museum of Communism
Prague
~0.44 miles from Prague city center
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Nove Mesto
Prague
~0.49 miles from Prague city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Estates Theatre (Stavovske Divadlo)
Prague
~0.49 miles from Prague city center
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The Estates Theatre or Stavovské divadlo is a historic theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. The Estates Theatre was annexed to the National Theatre in 1948 and currently draws on three artistic ensembles, opera, ballet, and drama, which perform at the Estates Theatre, the National Theatre (Národní divadlo), and the Kolowrat Theatre (Divadlo Kolowrat).
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Powder Tower (Prasna Brana, Powder Gate)
Prague
~0.51 miles from Prague city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
House of the Black Madonna (Dum U cerne Matky Bozi)
Prague
~0.54 miles from Prague city center
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Municipal House Hall (Obecni Dum)
Prague
~0.55 miles from Prague city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Czech Technical University (Ceske Vysoke Ucení Technicke CVUT)
Prague - 420 224 35 1111
~0.55 miles from Prague city center
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According to the latest ranking in the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Czech Technical University in Prague appears in 394th place. This is the first time that the university has ranked in the Top 400 universities in the world, out of more than eight thousand universities worldwide. The best ranked Czech university, Charles University, ranked 229th, and no other Czech university was placed among the Top 400 universities.
The THES ranking of technical universities was published at the same time. Here, the Czech Technical University in Prague moved up to 171st place, which is an improvement of more than 50 places on the previous year’s ranking.
http://www.cvut.cz
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Vinohrady
Prague
~0.55 miles from Prague city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Repubic Square (Namesti Republiky)
Prague
~0.59 miles from Prague city center
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Tyn Cathedral
Prague
~0.62 miles from Prague city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Prague
~0.62 miles from Prague city center
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The Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic, is the principal church in the Metropolitan Council of the Czech Republic. The existing structure had its origins as a Roman Catholic church built between 1730 and 1736 by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo, archibishop and cardinal of Milan in the XVII century.
In 1942, during World War II, the cathedral was the scene of the last stand of a number of Czech and Slovak patriots who had assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General of Police. After a fierce gun battle, they reportedly committed suicide to avoid capture.[1][2] Presently there is a museum in the church dedicated to them as national heroes.
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Astronomical Clock (Prague Orloj, Prazsky Orloj)
Prague
~0.63 miles from Prague city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Old Town Hall Tower
Prague
~0.63 miles from Prague city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Old Town Square (Staromestske Namesti)
Prague
~0.64 miles from Prague city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Town Centre
Prague
~0.65 miles from Prague city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Naprstek Museum
Prague
~0.65 miles from Prague city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Stone Bell House
Prague
~0.68 miles from Prague city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Kinsky Palace (Palac Kinskych)
Prague
~0.68 miles from Prague city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
St. Nicholas Church at the Old Town Square
Prague
~0.70 miles from Prague city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Prague City Hall
Prague
~0.73 miles from Prague city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Josefov
Prague
~0.73 miles from Prague city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Prague National Theatre (Narodni Divadlo)
Prague
~0.76 miles from Prague city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
National Marionette Theatre (Narodni Divadlo Marionet)
Prague
~0.76 miles from Prague city center
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Prague
Clementinum Prague National Library
Prague
~0.76 miles from Prague city center
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The Clementinum (Klementinum in Czech) is a historical complex of buildings in Prague. It is currently in use as the National Library of the Czech Republic.
The history of the Klementinum dates from the existence of a chapel dedicated to Saint Clement in the 11th century. A Dominican monastery was founded in the medieval period, which was transformed in 1556 to a Jesuit college. In 1622 the Jesuits transferred the library of Charles University to the Klementinum, and the college was merged with the University in 1654. The Jesuits remained until 1773, when the Klementinum was established as an observatory, library, and university by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
The National Library was founded in 1781 and from 1782 the Klementinum was a legal deposit library.
In 1918 the newly-established Czecho-Slovak state took over the library. Since 1990, it has been the National Library.
The architecture is a notable example of Baroque architecture and Clementinum, covering 20,000 square metres, is the second largest complex of buildings in Prague after the Prague Castle.
The library contains a collection of Mozartiana, material pertaining to Tycho Brahe and Comenius, as well as historic examples of Czech literature.
Today the complex hosts the National, University and Technical libraries. The City Library is also located nearby on Mariánské Námestí.
For several years before 2006, there was an on-going debate on the possibilities of expanding the space for future library collections, as the room in the current Clementinum buildings is expected to reach its limit by 2010. On Jan 10, 2006, the Prague authorities decided to sell the city-owned property located in the area of Letná near the Prague center, to the National Library. In Spring 2006, an international architectural design competition for the new building was put up. An architect who won the competition is Jan Kaplický, but his winning was infirmed, so the Czech National Library is still waiting for its final project. The completion of the new building is anticipated in 2010.
In 2005 the Czech National Library received the UNESCO´s Jikji prize (Memory of the World).
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