Franz Kafka Museum, Biographical museum at Malá Strana, Czech Republic

The Franz Kafka Museum occupies the Herget Brickworks in Malá Strana, left of the Charles Bridge. Its two permanent exhibitions, "Existential Space" and "Imaginary Topography", show copies of manuscripts, photographs, diaries and Kafka's correspondence with Milena Jesenská, with no originals. The dark rooms have a long red-lit staircase and sound effects.

The exhibition was first shown in Barcelona in 1999 as "The City of K.: Franz Kafka in Prague", one of three displays on writers and their cities, alongside James Joyce and Dublin and Fernando Pessoa and Lisbon. It moved to the Jewish Museum in New York in 2002 and opened permanently in summer 2005 in the Herget Brickworks in Malá Strana.

The museum reveals how Prague shaped Kafka's thinking through two sections exploring his lived experiences and literary imagination. Visitors can see how the city influenced his writing.

The museum occupies the Herget Brickworks building in Malá Strana, just left of Charles Bridge. Exhibition texts are in English, with quotations also in Czech and German, and some labels sit on transparent panels that are hard to read. The two permanent sections are "Existential Space" and "Imaginary Topography".

Outside the museum stands a bronze fountain sculpture showing two men pouring water onto a surface shaped like the Czech Republic. This quirky artwork often catches the attention of passersby.