Umeleckoprumyslove Muzeum (Museum of Decorative Arts)
Only a small fraction of the museums holding are on display, but what is makes a mockery of the distinction between fine and applied art. The fin-de-siecle building itself is a work of art and is divided into two floors. The ground floor hosts temporary exhibitions, while the top floor presents a wide range of crafts. Of particular interest and beauty are the Czech ceramics and glassware.

Muchovo Muzeum (Mucha Museum)
Celebrating the life of Czechoslovakias best-known artist, Alfons Mucha (1860-1934), the collection includes many of his Paris posters, including those for performances by Sarah Bernhardt. Paintings, sketchbooks and a re-creation of his Paris studio are also on display. There is also a pleasant terrace cafe.

Prazske Panoptikum (Prague Wax Museum)
Another recently opened attraction, the Panoptikon presents a number of fascinating tableaux, including a medieval alchemical laboratory and a nineteenth century street scene complete with the figure of Franz Kafka. Small-scale 3D pseudo-holographic films give an idea of media just over the horizon.

Zidovske Muzeum (The Jewish Museum)
Containing over 40,000 exhibits and 100,000 books, the Jewish Museum has one of the most extensive collections of Judaic art and culture in the world. It is unique not only in terms of the number of its exhibits, but because they are from a single territory (Bohemia and Moravia), presenting an integrated picture of Jewish life and history in the region. The exhibitions of the museum are in six historic locations; the Maisel Synagogue, Spanish Synagogue, Pinkas Synagogue, the Old Jewish Cemetery, Klausen Synagogue and the Ceremonial Hall.

Museum of the City of Prague
Permanent exhibition: Ancient Prague - the history of the city and its inhabitants froma the prehistoric times to 1620. Prague between th Middle and New Ages. Langweil´s model of Prague created during 1826 - 1837 - a unique three dimensional representation of the city made of paper and wood covering 20 sqm. Opening hours: daily except Mondays 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. first Thursday in month 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. and admission fee 1 Kc

Narodni Muzeum (National Museum)
The National Museum stands at the top of Wenceslas Square and contains extensive collections of prehistoric artefacts, mineralogy and petrology, palaeontology, zoology and anthropology. The permanent exhibition of the Prehistory of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia is divided into two sections. One depicts the concurrent development of the varied cultures in the area and the other contains archaeological discoveries and models of fortified dwellings and ritual burials. The collection of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology has over 200,000 specimens of minerals, rocks, gemstones, meteorites, tektites and dynamic geology, but only around 12,000 are on display.

The Museum of Military History
The Historical Institute of the Army of the Czech Republic is a museum, a book and a scientific researching institution of the Board of Military and Army of the Czech Republic. It systematically gathers, stores, specially and scientifically works out and makes accessible the objects of the cultural inheritance, springs and information about the history of the Czech military, the Czechoslovak army and the Army of the Czech Republic. It manages the museum and book collection funds and forms presumptions to their usage. It makes the collections accessible by means of expositions of four museums (the Military historical museum, the Museum of aviation, the Military technical museum and the Army museum) and short-term exhibitions.

Bertramka: Mozart and Duseks Museum
Nestled in the hills above the suburb of Smichov, the Duseks villa is where Mozart completed Don Giovanni, the night before its premier in 1787. Badly damaged by fire in the 1870s, the villa and gardens have been carefully restored to their original eighteenth-century splendour and feature outdoor recitals throughout the summer months. The collection of Mozart memorabilia is quite small, but the rococo architecture and tranquil gardens more than compensate, offering visitors an opportunity to experience the beauty that inspired the maestros work.

Antonin Dvorak Museum
Hidden away behind wrought-iron gates, the Dvorak Museum is housed in an elegant early eighteenth-century baroque summer palace. The exquisite russet and cream villa was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, the architect responsible for some of Pragues most beautiful churches including St John Nepomuk on the Rock and the stunning St Nicholas in Mala strana. The building has had a varied existence (having served as a cattle market and also a restaurant), but in recent years it has been carefully restored and now contains a permanent exhibition of photographs and memorabilia of the life and work of Antonin Dvorak (1841 to 1904) from the collection of the Dvorak Society. The ceiling of the recital hall on the first floor is decorated with a fresco, Apollo, Pegasus and the Arts, by Johan Ferdinand Schor, whilst in the garden are sculptures of the Four Seasons from the workshop of Anton Braun.

Sternberg Palace (Sternbersky palac) Narodni Galerie (The National Gallery)
The Sternberg Palace is the main building of the National Gallery, exhibiting European art from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries except for works by Czech artists, which are housed in St Georges Convent. The collection includes a fine selection of master works by artists including Holbein, Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, van Dyck, El Greco, Goya, Gaugin, van Gogh, Picasso and Braque.

St Georges Convent (Klaster sv. Jiri) The National Gallery (Narodni galerie)
St Georges Convent gallery exhibits early Czech art; Bohemian paintings and sculpture from the Middle Ages to 1800. The collection includes Gothic panel paintings by the Master of the Vyssi Brod Altar, Magister Theodorik, and Master of the Altar of Trebon, the Gothic sculpture of the Master of the Mourning from Zebrak, baroque sculpture and paintings by Skreta, Kupecky, Rainer, Brokoff and Braun and Rudolphine works by Hans von Aachen, Joseph Heintz, Bartolomeus Spranger and Adrian de Vries.

Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia (Klaster sv. Anezky Ceske) The National Gallery (Narodni galerie)
A continuation of the exhibition in St Georges Convent, the Convent of St Agnes features nineteenth-century Czech art, mainly in nationalist and neo-Gothic styles.

Trade Fair Palace - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Veletrzni palac - Muzeum moderniho a soucasneho umeni) The National Gallery (Narodni galerie)
The National Gallerys modern collection is housed in a vast Constructivist masterpiece built in the mid-1920s, which provides an appropriate setting for the works inside. The exhibition features a huge selection of twentieth-century Czech art, as well as many superb European works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Zbraslav Castle (Zamek Zbraslav) The National Gallery (Narodni galerie)
Zbraslav Castle houses the non-European art collection of the National Gallery.

Kinsky Palace (Palac Kinskych) The National Gallery (Narodni galerie)
The Kinsky Palace overlooks the Jan Hus monument in the Old Town Square and contains the Prints and Drawings Collection and the National Gallery information centre.

Old Town Hall and City Gallery Prague
Housed in the beautiful fourteenth-century Old Town Hall, the City Gallery Prague (GHMP) exhibits work from its permanent collection of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with regular special exhibitions of working artists, focusing on international contemporary trends. The permanent collection of sculpture, painting and graphics includes the work of Alfons Mucha, Jaroslav Cermak, Vaclav Brozik, Emil Filla, Josef Vaclav Myslbek, Ladislav Saloun, Jaroslav Horejc and Frantisek Bilek.

The House of the Black Madonna
Built as a department store between 1911 and 1912 by Josef Gocar, the House of the Black Madonna is one of the finest Cubist buildings in Europe, housing a permanent exhibition of Czech Cubism of the period 1911 to 1919, as well as Czech and international art from the first half of the twentieth century. Individual exhibits are changed on a regular basis and feature a wide range of artistic disciplines that give visitors an idea of the remarkable variety and extent of the Cubist school, which in Bohemia (and especially in Prague) became part of everyday life.

The Czech Museum of Fine Arts
Formerly the Mid-Bohemian Gallery, the Czech Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1963 as a regional gallery. It was originally housed in Nelahozeves Castle near Prague, relocating into three sympathetically restored baroque buildings on Husova Street in the Old Town district of Prague in 1971. The museum hosts temporary exhibitions of twentieth-century Czech art as well as retrospectives of foreign artists.

The Prague Castle Gallery
The collection of the Prague Castle Gallery I contains around 400 paintings and drawings from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. A few works survive from the legendary collection of Rudolph II, but most were lost as spoils of war during the seventeenth century, moved to Vienna or sold - either to the Saxons or in the Josephine auction of 1782. Regarded as the most valuable paintings in the collection are Titians Toilet of a Young Lady, Tintorettos Flagellation of Christ and Rubenss The Assembly of the Olympic Gods. There are other major works by artists including Hans von Aachen, Domenico Fetti, Bartolomeo Spranger, Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Bassano. Gallery II holds temporary exhibitions, but also has a small permanent exhibition of pieces from the reign of Rudolph II.