MUSEUM OF COMMUNISM (MUZEUM KOMUNISMU)
2025
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A superb museum dedicated to this dark page of Czech history. Captivating and scary! A historical and educational dive.
The museum is a unique experience in understanding the Communist regime and how this period of history shaped every aspect of daily life in the former Eastern bloc, as well as its influence on millions of human lives across generations. In its new, brighter and more spacious premises, the Museum of Communism succeeds in conveying this message by building on and enriching what had made it so successful. The first section features a few artifacts and photos, but is essentially devoted to presenting the history of Communism in the Czech Republic from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Large panels retrace the great hours of the Party and its emblematic figures. A lot of reading, but it's fascinating and very well documented. In the second part of the exhibition, we move on to the staging, which recreates the atmosphere of the period, and includes numerous objects from that time. A large section is devoted to the repressive system, with the reconstitution of an interrogation room or an area, plunged into semi-darkness, where we relive the hell of those who tried to cross to the West. The exhibition as a whole has become richer and more interactive than ever before, with numerous films and recordings making the reconstructions less static. A historical and educational plunge into the years of communism and their repercussions in Czechoslovakia.
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Open every day from 9am to 8pm. 380 Kč, reduced 290 Kč.
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Option: museum text 100% translated into French / German / Spanish available for a deposit of 200CZK.
The museum focuses on the totalitarian regime from the February 1948 coup to its rapid collapse in November 1989. The museum's theme is "Communism: Dream, Reality and Nightmare", and visitors will be treated to a totally immersive experience. A factory, a historic classroom, an interrogation room, or video clips from our "Time Machine Television" are all part of the experience.
The museum is an excellent introduction before you go even further back in time to discover the wonders of the City of Gold.
It's the first museum in Prague (since the Velvet Revolution) devoted exclusively to a system developed in the former Soviet Union.
Original items and careful installations containing authentic objects are displayed in the three main halls (please see the virtual tour).
The Museum presents a vivid account of communism, focusing generally on Czechoslovakia and in particular Prague in a variety of fields, such as: Daily life
-Politics
-History
-Sport
-Economy
- Education
-The "arts" (such as the so-called socialist realism movement)
-Propaganda media
-Militia peoples
-Army
-Police (including the dreaded secret STB apparatus)
-Censorship
-Judicial and coercive institutions (including Stalinist show trials and labor camp politics).
The Museum of Communism was created to display and interpret historical objects and documents. It presents itself as an authoritative historical account of this 20th-century phenomenon. It is, however, in no way intended by the organizers to be a filter for contemporary political issues in the Czech Republic.
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おしゃれでSNSに映える美しいプラハがみられるところではありませんが、このプラハという街とチェコという国にいま生きている人たちがどういう歴史を経て、いまの国を持つに至ったかを知るために、ぜひ訪問することをおすすめします。観光客としてきれいな面だけではなく、その背景にあるチェコの人々の苦労と努力を知ることは大切です。
プラハの春は1968年、ビロード革命は1989年とそれほど昔のことではありません。
展示の文量が多く、主に英語とチェコ語のため全てを読んで理解するのは大変ですが、特に共産主義社会での市民生活や監視や取り調べについての展示は具体的な物とともに展示されていて理解しやすいと思います。