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Hotel Popelka Praha

Hotel Popelka

Prague out of center → Košíře, Prague 5 • 2.1 mi ( 3.4 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Praha Hotel Popelka from category 4 star hotel in Prague, situated in a very peaceful and beautiful part of Prague, in the street called Na Popelce, a mere 100m from a street called Vrchlickeho. Hotel Popelka aims at providing those who visit Prague with a home away from home. Our guests can enjoy the comfort and pleasant atmosphere of our hotel which will enable them to relax and then genuinely enjoy a wonderful visit to historic Prague centre.

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Hotel Olympik **** Praha - Double room

Hotel Olympik ****

Prague close to center → Karlín, Prague 8 • 2.1 mi ( 3.4 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Olympik hotel in Prague, from category 4 star Prague hotels, is situated on the metro line B (Palmovka station), just 10 minutes from the historical city centre. Hotel offers Prague accommodation in 314 rooms and five apartments.

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Hotel Plaza Alta Praha

Hotel Plaza Alta

Prague close to center → Holešovice, Prague 7 • 2.2 mi ( 3.5 km ) from Narodni muzeum

The four star Prague designed Hotel Plaza Alta has been specifically designed to meet the needs and interests of both business and pleasure travellers, by offering a unique combination of Prague accommodation comfort and affordability in a quiet and easily accessible location near Prague centre.

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ABEX HOSTEL UBYTOVNA Praha

ABEX HOSTEL UBYTOVNA

Prague → Strašnice, Prague 3 • 2.2 mi ( 3.5 km ) from Narodni muzeum
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Mars hotel Praha

Mars hotel

Prague out of center → Vršovice, Prague 10 • 2.2 mi ( 3.5 km ) from Narodni muzeum

The three-star Hotel Mars is a popular hotel situated in Prague 10 - Vrsovice and offers quiet Accommodations in Prague. The three-storey building is located right on Kubánské náměstí. The cheap Prague accommodation in Hotel Mars will surprise you with their facilities - an elevator is available and it is possible to use the Internet for a fee and to purchase souvenirs in the hotel hall. The reception, which is open 24 hours a day, offers you the opportunity to store your valuables, borrow a hair dryer and also offers other services at no charge. It is possible to pay by credit card.

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Hotel Attic Praha

Hotel Attic

Prague out of center → Michle, Prague 4 • 2.2 mi ( 3.6 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Prague Hotel Attic, from the category 3-star Prague hotels, is situatedin the quiet part of Prague 4 - Michle. Prague centre may be reached rapidly by underground, whose station "Pankrac" is about 250 metres far from the hotel on foot. The ride by underground lasts about 7 minutes.Hotel offers its guests Prague accommodation in newly built hotel (1993) offering a quiet and pleasant stay in almost family-like setting in 24 double rooms.

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Hotel Olympik Artemis **** Praha

Hotel Olympik Artemis ****

Prague close to center → Karlín, Prague 8 • 2.2 mi ( 3.6 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Hotel Artemis Praha, from category 4 star hotels in Prague, is located in quiet residential part of Prague 8, Karlín district, within easy reach of the city centre by public transportation. Tram stop and subway station - ''Invalidovna'' are located approx. 300 meters from this hotel in Prague.

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Hotel Olympik Tristar*** Praha

Hotel Olympik Tristar***

Prague close to center → Karlín, Prague 8 • 2.2 mi ( 3.6 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Hotel Tristar Praha, from category 3 star hotels in Prague, is situated on metro line B, just 10 minutes from the historical Prague centre.

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Hotel PEKO, hotel garni *** Praha

Hotel PEKO, hotel garni ***

Prague out of center → Michle, Prague 10 • 2.3 mi ( 3.7 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Pension Peko Praha, from category 3 star hotels in Prague, has convenient location of hotel allows fast connection to the Prague centre. By tram no. 11 – from the Chodovská stop, which is 100 meters from the hotel. It takes 15 minutes to the Wenceslas Square by this tram. By buses no. 136, 150, 188, 213 and 260 – connection to the rest of the city and to the underground lines A and C.

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Pension Helena Praha

Pension Helena

Prague out of center → Podolí, Prague 4 • 2.3 mi ( 3.7 km ) from Narodni muzeum
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Orea Hotel Pyramida Praha

Orea Hotel Pyramida

Prague out of center → Břevnov, Prague 6 • 2.3 mi ( 3.7 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Prague hotel Pyramida, from category 4 star Prague hotels, is located in a quiet part of Prague, with a very short - walking - distance to the well known Prague Castle - one of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe. The distance to the public transportation is only 50 meters, as there is a Tram stop directly in front of Prague Hotel Pyramida. In just 20 minutes one can get from the hotel to the famous Wenceslav Square. Hotel Orea Pyramida offers luxury accommodation in Prague in 354 rooms.

 

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Hotel Villa Praha

Hotel Villa

Prague out of center → Strašnice, Prague 10 • 2.3 mi ( 3.7 km ) from Narodni muzeum

Hotel Villa is located in a quiet villa district almost at the center of Prague, close to metro Zelivskeho. This hotel is located in the building where is shooting Czech famous serial. The Hotel include a restaurant, conference room, private parking, currency exchange and a big garden. There is also free wifi.

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Narodni muzeum

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.

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.

t:source: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Národní_muzeum

Landmarks near Narodni muzeum

  • Public transport station Muzeum - C
    50 yd ( 50 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Public transport station Muzeum - A
    90 yd ( 80 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Metro station Muzeum
    90 yd ( 80 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • St. Wenceslas statue
    100 yd ( 90 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Wenceslas Square
    140 yd ( 130 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • State Opera Prague
    250 yd ( 230 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • COMO Restaurant & Café
    290 yd ( 270 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Divadlo Radka Brzobohatého
    300 yd ( 270 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Parking Centrum
    320 yd ( 290 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Alcron
    330 yd ( 300 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Divadlo Palace Theatre
    340 yd ( 310 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Veřejné garáže Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel
    350 yd ( 320 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Café Buddha
    350 yd ( 320 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • University of New York in Prague
    360 yd ( 320 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Divadlo Evy Hruškové a Jana Přeučila
    370 yd ( 340 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Lucerna
    380 yd ( 350 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Public transport station Italská
    380 yd ( 350 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Mr.PARKIT - Garáž Španělská
    400 yd ( 360 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Samurai
    410 yd ( 370 m ) from Narodni muzeum
  • Divadlo Síť
    420 yd ( 380 m ) from Narodni muzeum

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