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Current AffairsLandmark National Museum building closes for five-year long reconstruction
The historic National Museum building at the top of Prague’s Wenceslas
Square will close its doors on Thursday for five years of major renovations
– the first in the site’s 120-year-long history. When it reopens in
June 2016, the museum should offer visitors a whole new experience. On
Thursday, hundreds of people used the valuable opportunity to visit the
museum for one last time. More
SpotlightKarlín – Prague’s first suburb
Prague’s leafy central suburb of Karlín may best be known outside of the
Czech Republic for the devastating floods that laid ruin to it in 2002, but
much of the world has been using the machines and products born of Karlín
factories for more than a hundred years and aside from that it is also
Prague’s oldest suburb – a point recalled by an exhibition being held
this year at the City Museum in Prague that was created by historian Dr.
Zdeněk Míka: More
Current AffairsWill transport strike turn Prague into biker-friendly city?
Politicians and union leaders are still arguing about the significance and
the impact of Thursday’s transportation strike. But in Prague, where
nearly all municipal transport came to a standstill, the strike had one
unexpected effect – many more people than usual got on their bikes and
rode to work. Pro-cycling activists now hope that this could be a defining
moment, with Thursday’s necessity eventually becoming the city’s
everyday virtue. More
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