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The Museum is housed in a two-storey building designed by architect Josef Schulz in the Neo-Renaissance style, built between 1897—1899, with richly articulated and decorated roofs and front façade.
The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague collects and preserves for future generations — in both national and international contexts — examples of historical and contemporary crafts, as well as applied arts and design. We believe in harmony between function, quality and beauty; our ambition is to inspire, educate and entertain in a unique way.
exhibition activities — new themes
Since 1989 exhibitions presenting new trends have been included in our programme: for example post-modern applied art in 1990, and the work of living Czech artists of international standing, among them Boĝek İípek, Josef Koudelka and prominent foreign artists such as Dale Chihuly and Sheila Hicks. Exhibitions from our own collections have included: Czech Cubism, Bohemian Art Deco, and exhibitions of posters and photographs. We also wanted to pay a debt to the memory of the founders and past benefactors of the Museum in exhibitions such as: Vojtìch Baron Lanna, The Cabinets of Arts and Curiosities, 110 Anniversary of the Museum: More space for collections. The most significant collections were presented in exhibitions: The Ceramic collection of Hugo Vavreèka and Acquisitions. We try to present design exhibitions: Czech design (1999), Design for Every Body (2001), Israeli design (2002), Arne Jacobsen — Evergreens&Milestones (2002), mono + Eva Eisler (jewellery, design, tableware) (2003), Ladislav Sutnar: Design in Action (2004), Subjective X Objective. Jiĝí Pelcl X
presentation of collections
Shortage of space in the Museum building effects both the presentation and storing of collections, as well as the day-to-day functioning of the Museum, which has become a popular place for tourists as well as scholars. Each year three to four exhibitions are prepared from the Museum´s collections, often as part of major prestigious events at home and abroad. These included Rudolf II and Prague in 1996, Art Deco in 1996, Biedermeier in 2000 in Padua, Festival Europalia in Brussels 1998, Art Deco in Tokyo in 1999, Art Nouveau Prague in Amsterdam and Frankfurt in 1999—2000. Generous loans of exhibits from our collections contribute yearly to around seventy exhibition projects arranged by various organisations at home and abroad. In the year 2000, when Prague was the European City of Culture, the Museum contributed to cultural events by opening a new permanent display under the title Stories of Materials. Exhibits are arranged according to materials, corresponding with curatorial departments, and a study room has been opened for public use, with a flexible display and a multi-media programme. Our collections are also represented in a significant way in the National Gallery’s new permanent display of 19th, 20th and 21st century art at the Trade Fair Palace (Dukelskŭch hrdinù Street) and in the Museum of Cubism in Prague (Celetná Street). In the year 2003 we opened the new permanent display in Hergetova cihelna in Prague — Prague Jewellery Collection (Cihelná Street). In order to be able to gradually re-open all the exhibition halls in the Museum building to the public, further efforts are being made to find additional display and storage space outside the main building.
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Opening hours:
Museum
Tuesday 10 a.m.—7 p.m.
Wednesday — Sunday 10 a.m.—6 p.m.
Library
Monday 12 noon—6 p.m., Tuesday 10
a.m.—8 p.m., Wednesday — Friday 10 a.m.—6 p.m.
July — August closed
Café
Monday — Friday 10 a.m.—7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 10.30
a.m.—7 p.m.
Daily except Monday
10-18
Admition fee: 120,-CZK
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