Jaroslav Ježek Museum - Blue Room, Composer's memorial in Old Town, Prague, Czech Republic

The Jaroslav Ježek Museum – Blue Room is a memorial in a first-floor apartment at Kaprova 10 in Prague's Old Town, where the composer lived from 1921. The room, designed by architect František Zelenka, has light blue walls, a dark blue ceiling, black-stained wooden furniture, a Steinway piano, and a violin made entirely of matches.

The composer's mother and sister preserved the room as it was when he departed for the United States before the war. The space shows how he arranged his home during his lifetime.

The room's name comes from its blue walls, lighter below and darker on the ceiling and upper band, a colour scheme František Zelenka chose with Ježek's poor eyesight in mind. On the wall hangs a violin glued together entirely from matches, already there during Ježek's lifetime.

The Blue Room is in a private flat on the first floor at Kaprova 10, Old Town, and is open to the public with a guide only one afternoon a week, on Wednesdays. Access is by guided tour, so plan around that single weekly slot.

On the wall hangs a violin glued together entirely from matches, already there during Ježek's lifetime. The room also holds his opera glasses, binoculars, glasses and writing set, while a bust by Václav Vokálek from 1957 sits on the house facade.