Museum of Man in Hrdlicka

Charles' University

Historical Museum - Department of modern Czech History

Tel.: +420 222 781 676
Fax.: +420 222 540 308

Info Telefon: +420 608 883 464
Besucher-Email: oncd@volny.cz
http://www.nm.cz/...

National Museum

Military Historical Museum in Prague

Tel.: +420 220 204 924
Fax.: +420 220 204 933

Info Telefon: +420 973 204 955
Besucher-Email: museum@army.cz
http://www.militarymuseum.cz...

Prague Gas Company Museum

Fax.: +420 267 172 482

Info Telefon: +420 267 172 616
Besucher-Email: zakovec@ppas.cz

Natural History Museum – Entomological Department

Info Telefon: +420 244 911 374
Besucher-Email: entomologie@volny.cz
http://www.nm.cz/...

National Museum

First Prague Fire Brigade Museum

Historical Museum – Ethnographical Collection

Tel.: +420 257 325 766
Fax.: +420 257 323 063

Info Telefon: +420 257 323 063
http://www.nm.cz/...

National Museum

Musaion - Ethnographical exhibition

Info Telefon: +420 257 214 806
Besucher-Email: narodopis@nm.cz

National Museum

From May to September:
Monday: closed
Tuesday - Sunday: 10 AM - 6 PM

From October to April:
Monday: closed
Tuesday - Sunday: 9 AM - 5 PM

Musaion is a long-term ethnographic exhibition of the Historical Museum of the National Museum, since 2005 again accessible in the reconstructed Empire building of the Kinsky Summerhouse. The exhibition focuses on the folk culture of the Czech Republic region (material and spiritual culture, folk art, collections of folk clothing, housing, farming, habits) and connected with the present day execution of folk craft, handicraft, regular folklore activities, educational programmes, expert and social meetings of folk culture fans.

Further activities: exhibiting workshops, folklore concerts, exhibitions, library, study and archive with study, discussion hall, shop for specialised publications and folk visual art, coffee bar-reading room (with garden in summer months).

The exhibition is managed by the Department of Ethnography of the Historical Museum of the National Museum which also has its seat in Musaion.
 

W. A. Mozart Memorial Museum at Villa Bertramka of the Dusek Family

Tel.: +420 257 318 461
Fax.: +420 257 316 753

Info Telefon: +420 257 317 465

Bertramka is closed!

The Museum of W. A. Mozart and the Dušeks is closed since November 1st, 2009.

It isn't possible to visit the exhibition of the museum, the concert or the Café Bertramka until recalled. Our other activities like rentals or weddings were stopped, too.

We would like to thank all of you for the long years of support and sympathy!

The area on the southwest from the walls of the city of Prague behind the Újezd gate from the year 1342 belonged to the Carthusian monastery. Even at that time the advantageous location of the surrounding sides moved members of the order to found extensive wineries. From the 16th century the rich Prague bourgeois began the construction of agricultural buildings, as well as well-built residential homes and summer homes with a view. This is how in the area of the present Smíchov an entire area of estates originated, used for farming as well as for rest.

Around the year 1700 a was built today's buildings of Bertramka. The summer residence changed hands several times, and the traditional name acquired "Bertramka" no earlier than the middle of the 18th century, based on the name Franzisca and Franz Berthram of Berthram.

Josefina Dušek bought Bertramka in April of 1784. In this place today there is a busy traffic artery next to a dusty highway Plzeòská street and the creek which flowed through the garden is now under grown. In addition to wine, Bertramka produced fruit, wheat and milk, and of course also foul and vegetables for the needs of the household. Mr. and Mrs. Dušek could then provide their guests with rich hospitality even at their table. The majority of the guests however sought above all a place, where they could freely discuss art and where it was possible to listen to good music. Mozart, who stayed at Bertramka in October of 1787 and at the end of August, beginning of September 1791, found here only an undisturbed peace for his work. Bertramka was the property of Mr. And Mrs. Dušek for fifteen years and during this time Josefina converted it into a comparatively ostentatious residence, which she decorated with her art collection.

After the death of her husband in 1799 Josefina Dušek was forced to sell Bertramka. It isn't known, whether the following numerous owners were aware of the fact, that Mozart stayed in their home. In the year 1838 the business man and Mozart´s admirer, Lambert Popelka with his wife got the house and land at an auction. He shared Bertramka as well as his love of Mozart with his son, Adolf Popelka. Adolf collected treasures of Mozart and gradually took interest in the room, which, according to tradition, is where Mozart stayed. He made contact with Karl Thomas Mozart in 1856, and had a bust of Mozart placed in the gardens. In the year of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Don Giovanni he organised a memorial gathering at Bertramka, on which also Antonín Dvoøák participated. At the turn of 1872-73 Bertramka was affected by a fire, after which it was partially renovated. Mathilda Sliwenská inherited Bertramka after Popelka's widow in the year 1918, who willed Bertramka in very bad condition to the Salzburg Mozarteum in 1925.

After several endeavours it was possible with the support of music enthusiasts and state grants to get Bertramka into the Mozart Society in the Czech Republic in 1929. During the reconstruction in the Protectorate the previous repairs and additions at Bertramka were done away with, such as the raised ceilings, the layers of wall paper were removed down to the original mural paintings, the renovations to the Sala terrena and the discovery of the original painted ceiling beams from the beginning of the 18th century. During the preparations for the Mozart celebration in the year 1956 the reconstruction of Bertramka was completed and the permanent exhibit was put together on the first floor of the previous residential home, as a reminder of the famous period in the history of Bertramka.

 

Zbraslav Chateau

Fax.: 257 921 929

Info Telefon: +420 257 921 638-9

National Gallery

Subway B Smíchovské nádrazí,
Bus 129, 241, 243, 360, 255

Collection of Oriental and Islamic Arts.