MUSEUM OF COMMUNISM (MUZEUM KOMUNISMU)
2024
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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 all aspects of daily life in the former Eastern bloc. In its new, larger and brighter premises, the Museum of Communism succeeds in conveying this message by building on and enriching what made it successful. A historical and educational dive 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.
Members' reviews on MUSEUM OF COMMUNISM (MUZEUM KOMUNISMU)
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The experience is mainly reading, and only text in English and Czech is provided. The text will be too complicated for teens below middle school (unless they love history). Not a strong anti-Communist slant, although some of the language is clearly biased. Reporting is relatively unbiased and relies on sources to show examples.
Impressive mockups of places during the Communist era are here, but too much reading is needed of over 50+ walls. It would be better to have a more immersive experience.