National Museum of Agriculture, Agricultural museum in Letná district, Prague, Czech Republic.
The National Museum of Agriculture is an agricultural museum in Prague spread across multiple floors. Its collections display farming equipment, agricultural machinery, and exhibits about rural life, with specialized branches located at other sites throughout the country.
The first collections were assembled after the Jubilee Provincial Exhibition in Prague in 1891, while the institution was still part of the Ethnographic Museum. It became independent in 1918 as the Agricultural Museum, and its founding general meeting of the same-named association took place on 28 September 1918. At Antonín Švehla's urging the name was soon changed to the Czechoslovak Agricultural Museum, an institute for the study and uplift of the countryside.
The museum shows how people lived and worked in rural areas. The different sections tell the story of viniculture, beer making, and traditional farming methods that were common across various Czech regions.
The main building is located near Letná in Prague's district 7, with additional sites in several other cities across the country. Plan your visit by noting that each location features different collections and focus areas.
The museum's main building on Letná was designed by architect Milan Babuška and built between 1937 and 1939, together with the neighbouring technical museum. The German occupation army seized it soon after completion, and the museum only returned to the building in 1994.
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