National Technical Museum, Technology museum in Letná district, Prague, Czech Republic.
The National Technical Museum is a technology museum in Holešovice, Prague, Czech Republic, bringing together engineering objects across multiple floors covering transport, mining, printing and astronomy. The exhibition halls also contain machinery from metalworking, household development tools and aircraft alongside automobiles.
The institution opened its doors in 1908 and later moved into a functionalist building. Its collections preserve early aviation equipment and vehicles such as a Jawa car from the 1930s.
The Czech name reflects the institution's role in preserving regional technical achievements. The ground-floor transport collection illustrates the close relationship between vehicle engineering and 20th-century industrial development.
The museum offers guided tours through reconstructed spaces such as a television studio and organizes workshops on scientific topics. Visitors find orientation signs in the corridors and can operate or observe objects at several points.
A reconstructed 1950s tunnel system spans 350 square meters (approximately 3770 square feet) and demonstrates earlier ore and coal extraction methods. Visitors walk through narrow passages and see tools alongside transport carts from different mining eras.
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