MUSEUM OF COMMUNISM (MUZEUM KOMUNISMU)

Open daily 9am-8pm. 380 Kč, reduced 290 Kč. Audioguides (deposit 200 Kč).

Option: museum text 100% translated into French / German / Spanish available for a deposit of  200CZK.

The museum focuses on the totalitarian regime from the February 1948 coup to its rapid collapse in November 1989. The museum's theme is "Communism: Dream, Reality and Nightmare", and visitors will be treated to a totally immersive experience. A factory, a historic classroom, an interrogation room, or video clips from our "Time Machine Television" are all part of the experience.

The museum is an excellent introduction before you go even further back in time to discover the wonders of the City of Gold.

It's the first museum in Prague (since the Velvet Revolution) devoted exclusively to a system developed in the former Soviet Union.

Original items and careful installations containing authentic objects are displayed in the three main halls (please see the virtual tour).

The Museum presents a vivid account of communism, focusing generally on Czechoslovakia and in particular Prague in a variety of fields, such as: Daily life
-Politics
-History
-Sport
-Economy
- Education
-The "arts" (such as the so-called socialist realism movement)
-Propaganda media
-Militia peoples
-Army
-Police (including the dreaded secret STB apparatus)
-Censorship
-Judicial and coercive institutions (including Stalinist show trials and labor camp politics).

The Museum of Communism was created to display and interpret historical objects and documents. It presents itself as an authoritative historical account of this 20th-century phenomenon. It is, however, in no way intended by the organizers to be a filter for contemporary political issues in the Czech Republic.