Antonín Dvořák Museum, Classical music museum in New Town, Czech Republic
The Antonín Dvořák Museum is housed in Villa Amerika, a Baroque building from the early 18th century in Prague's New Town, set within a small garden with sandstone sculptures. The interior rooms display the composer's manuscripts, letters, photographs, and personal belongings.
The building was constructed in the early 1700s as a summer residence and later served as a school before it was repurposed. It opened as a museum in 1932, dedicated to the memory of Dvořák.
The museum is named after Antonín Dvořák, whose viola, piano and working-desk items are on display alongside autograph scores and correspondence. Visitors can listen to excerpts from his best-known works while touring the rooms, and the museum also stages regular concerts, seminars and lectures.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and closed on Mondays, so it is worth checking before you visit. The garden is accessible from outside, and inside you will need to use stairs to move between floors.
The building never had any link to Dvořák: he lived from 1877 in a house in Žitná Street until his death. Before the museum, the villa housed the Minerva girls' grammar school, founded in 1890 on the initiative of Eliška Krásnohorská, and at another time a poorhouse whose garden was used for grazing cattle.
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