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The Prague Museum of Culture of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and America. Напрстека (Naprstkovo muzeum) was named after its creator, traveler, Czech patriot and intellectual Voitek Naprstek (1826-1894).

On the four floors of the house "U Halanku", where in the 19th century the family of Vojtek Náprstek (nee Adalbert Fingerhuta, who later changed his surname, translated it into Czech from German), housed a unique and vast ethnographic collection that gives an idea of ​​the ancient Asian, African, American, Australian cultures (more than one hundred thousand exhibits). Temporary exhibitions are also held here.

In today's Naprstek Museum you can see the magnificent collections of exhibits of everyday life and culture of peoples living in the countries of Asia, the East, America and Africa, a lot of different coins, photographs, historical moments, books, newspaper clippings, stereoscopic pictures, gramophone records and much more.
The museum was founded in 1862 . At first it was called the Czech Industrial Museum (Ceske prumyslove muzeum) and included the exhibits of the technical and scientific library . But the permanent scientific expeditions of Напрстека kept replenishing the ethnographic collection . His friends and acquaintances also made their contribution . Napprstek even created the "Club of Czech Tourists" in order to increase the collection, periodically acquiring unique finds from its members, and, in order to get new materials for his museum, sometimes financed other people's travels . Finally, the collection of awards sla to such an extent that forced Напрстека in 1887 г . to make an extension to the museum .

Subsequently it had to be divided into parts, and the modern Museum Naprstek reoriented only to cultures outside Europe (archaeological finds, art and decorative and applied art, numismatics) and renamed the Museum of Asian, African and American cultures named Thimble. In 1932 the Museum of Naprstek became subordinate to the leadership of the national museum (narodni muzeum) in connection with the death of Wojtek's wife, who continued to lead the museum after her husband's death.

In the second half of the 20th century, the collection of museum exhibits continued actively. Approximately two-thirds of the collection was purchased in the post-war years. There were no more rooms left in the house of the Galankov, so some of the exhibits were sent to the Libikhov Castle near the town of Milnik. And in 2002, when a severe flood happened, the collection almost died, after which it was moved to the National Museum of Natural History

In today's Museum of Naprasstok you can see the luxurious collections of exhibits of everyday life and culture of peoples living in the countries of Asia, the East, America and Africa, a lot of different coins, photographs that captured historical moments, books, newspaper clippings, stereoscopic pictures, gramophone records, etc.

The permanent exposition of the museum will tell visitors about ancient and prehistoric culture and life, will present the evolutionary development of people's lives on the islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, will fully and accurately demonstrate the understanding of life thanks to the subjects of the life of different tribes of Venezuela and Colombia at the end of the 19th century.

How to get to the Naprstek Museum

@ Museum address: Betlemske namesti, 269/1, Praha 1. You can take the metro to Mustek station or take tram 17, 18, 53 to the Karlovy lazne stop

Working time

Visit the museum - every day from 9 : 00 to 12:00 and from 12:45 to 17:30, Monday to the day off.

Cost of visit I

Entrance: 80 CZK, for children under 15 years and students: 50 CZK; Family ticket (two adults and three children): 130 CZK.