Brno
This excellent museum provides an overdue positive showcase of Romany culture. Highlights include a couple of music-packed videos, period photographs from…
Must-see attractions in Czechia
Prague
Edgy gallery dedicated to showing contemporary urban art, street art and graffiti from young Czech and international artists. Artists include Pasta Oner,…
Staré Město
Built in 1912, the Ceremonial Hall was formerly the mortuary for the Old Jewish Cemetery, and is now the site of an interesting exhibition on Jewish…
Moravia
The 17th-century burial ground on Hrádek, about 600m north of the Jewish Quarter, is the largest in the country, with more than 11,000 graves. The oldest…
Staré Město
Ladislav Šaloun’s brooding art nouveau statue of Jan Hus was unveiled on 6 July 1915, the 500th anniversary of Hus’ death at the stake.
Karlovy Vary
The Karlovy Vary Museum has extensive exhibits on the town's development as a spa resort, Czech glasswork and the region's natural history.
Moravia
The handsome and scaleable 80m tower on Znojmo’s Town Hall is one of Moravia's best examples of late Gothic architecture (c 1448).
Staré Město
The Klaus Synagogue houses a good exhibit on Jewish ceremonies of birth and death, worship and special holy days.
Prague
In 1140 Vladislav II founded Strahov Monastery for the Premonstratensian order. The present monastery buildings, completed in the 17th and 18th centuries,…
Staré Město
This small museum is devoted to Bedřich Smetana, Bohemia’s favourite composer. It isn’t that interesting, unless you’re a Smetana fan, and has only…
Malá Strana
This much-hyped and slightly overpriced exhibition on the life and work of Prague’s most famous literary son, entitled ‘City of K’, explores the intimate…
Church of Our Lady of the Snows
Prague
This Gothic church at the northern end of Wenceslas Square was begun in the 14th century by Charles IV, but only the chancel was ever completed, which…
Prague
With an area of more than seven hectares, Charles Square is Prague’s biggest – it’s more like a small park, really, and was originally the city's cattle…
Prague
Sporting a beautifully preserved facade of black-and-white Renaissance sgraffito, the Schwarzenberg Palace houses the National Gallery’s collection of…
Prague
This island is a sleepy, dog-eared sandbank with pleasant gardens, river views and several jetties where you can hire rowing boats. In the middle stands…
Bohemia
Next to Mělník chateau is this 15th-century Gothic church, with baroque furnishings and remnants of its Romanesque predecessor incorporated into the rear…
Prague
The late-17th-century early-baroque palace opposite the Loreta boasts Prague’s largest monumental facade. This imposing building has housed the foreign…
Prague
Overlooking the entrance to Prague Castle, the austerely neoclassical Salm Palace – built in 1810 as a luxury aristocratic residence – provides hanging…
Malá Strana
A 17th-century baroque monastery building with an impressive central atrium makes a beautiful setting for Prague’s Museum of Music. The museum’s permanent…
Prague
The New Town Hall was built in the late 14th century, when the New Town was still new. From the window of the main hall (the tower was not built until…
Staré Město
When the Jesuits were invited to Prague by the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand I, they selected one of the city’s choicest pieces of real estate and in 1587…
Malá Strana
The enthusiastic Russian collector of KGB memorabilia who established this small museum insists on showing visitors around his treasure trove of spy…
Staré Město
When the Josefov ghetto was cleared at the turn of the 20th century, the broad boulevard of Pařížská třída (Paris Ave) was driven in a straight line…
Malá Strana
Below the Petřín Lookout Tower is the Mirror Maze, built for the 1891 Prague Exposition. As well as the maze of distorting mirrors, which was based on the…
Plzeň
Plzeň's impressive main museum is generally held back by a lack of information in English, though a couple of the exhibitions, including an enthralling…
Malá Strana
A recently renovated historical building on Kampa island, Werich Villa is worth a visit if you're interested in the history of Czech theatre and the lives…
Prague
The Czech ‘Sea World’ has the largest water tank in the country, with a capacity of around 100,000L. Some 4500 living species of fish and sea creatures…
Prague
In 2009 the National Museum expanded into the ugly building next door. This so-called New Building now hosts changing exhibitions on various historical,…
Prague
The planetarium in Stromovka park, just west of Výstaviště, presents various slide and video presentations in addition to daily star shows. Most shows are…
Brno
At the centre of Zelný trh (Cabbage Market), the heart of the Old Town, is the curious baroque Parnassus Fountain (1695), a symbolic cave encrusted with…
Prague
The restored Gothic cellars that once lay beneath Charles IV’s palace (now gone) house an exhibition dedicated to the history and legend of Vyšehrad. The…
Staré Město
Jan Palach Square is named after the young Charles University student who, in January 1969, set himself alight in Wenceslas Square in protest against the…
Olomouc
Bezručovy sady is one of several pretty parks that wrap around the old centre. The park has walking trails, playgrounds and secluded spots to admire the…
Prague
The baroque palace at the southern end of Charles Square is known as Faust House because, according to the popular German legend, this was where…
Staré Město
Designed by Viennese court architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in 1713, the Clam-Gallas Palace is one of the most extravagantly baroque buildings…
Prague
Accessed from Zlatá ulička, this tower is named after the knight Dalibor of Kozojedy, incarcerated here in 1498 for supporting a peasant rebellion, and…
Quo Vadis (David Černý Sculpture)
Malá Strana
This bronze Trabant (an East German car) on four human legs is a David Černý tribute to the 4000 East Germans who occupied the garden of the then West…
Prague
Spanning the Vltava between the embankment and Slovanský Island and cowering beneath a 15th-century water tower, the Mánes Building (1927–30) is a…
Olomouc
Housed in a former convent, this is part ethnographic museum and part natural history museum. One section focuses on the history of Olomouc from the 6th…
Prague
In Strahov Monastery’s second courtyard is the Strahov Picture Gallery, with a valuable collection of Gothic, baroque, rococo and romantic art on the 1st…
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