The National Technical Museum opens on 19 May 2020
Come again to Letná to see the history of a technical genius

The National Technical Museum opens to the public on Tuesday 19 May 2020. The operation of the museum in Prague Letná is adapted to the current conditions and the NTM invites visitors to the museum for a safe tour of 9 exhibitions and 6 exhibitions. In the following weeks, the NTM branches – the NTM Centre of Building Heritage in Plasy from 26 May 2020 and the NTM Railway Depository in Chomutov from 5 June 2020 – will also be open to the public. The operating hours of the depository are changing and it will now be open from Friday to Sunday.

Karel Ksandr, Director General of the NTM, said. I thank my colleagues for their work in complicated conditions and all the visitors who will visit the museum in the near future. We have done our best for their safety and I trust they will be sympathetic to certain current measures. Above all, however, I would like to thank the paramedics, firefighters and police officers for their extraordinary efforts over the past few weeks. As a small thank you to the members of the Integrated Rescue System, we have prepared free tickets to the museum.”

The building of the National Technical Museum in Letná will open to visitors on Tuesday 19 May 2020. Tickets will be available at the ticket office and can be paid for both contactless and in cash. The museum is open during normal opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays from 9.00 to 18.00.

Visitors are invited to visit the 9 permanent exhibitions including the popular Transport Hall with its very valuable collection of transport vehicles. The successful exhibition The Jawa Phenomenon or Jawa as you don’t know it is also open until the end of June, as well as the exhibition Technology in Dictatorships, dedicated to technology and apparatus from the era of totalitarianism, and 4 other exhibition projects. In the NTM building, there will be increased hygiene rules – the need to cover the face with a veil, the mandatory use of hand sanitizer and compliance with the established capacity of visiting the museum and exhibitions, so that the visit to the museum is completely safe. At present, due to operational reasons, it will not be possible to visit the Architecture, Building and Design; Television Studio, Mercury Game Room, Measuring Time and Chemistry Around Us exhibitions. There are no guided tours of the Coal and Ore Mine or any accompanying programmes or events for school groups. The library study room and the NTM archive research room remain closed. For more information, visit www.ntm.cz.

The reopening of the National Technical Museum will be marked in a festive way by a concert prepared by the NTM in cooperation with Prague Spring on Sunday 31 May at 8pm. The live broadcast from the NTM Transport Hall, where guitarist Lukáš Sommer and his guest countertenor Jan Mikušek will perform among the unique historical means of transport, will be available on the Prague Spring website festival.cz/concert/lukas-sommer-live-from-narodni-technickeho-muzea and on Czech Radio.

TheNTM Plasy Building Heritage Centre will welcome visitors from Tuesday 26 May 2020 under increased security rules during normal opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays from 9.00 to 17.00. The interactive part of the Construction Exposition called the Construction Playground will be closed. For more information, visit www.muzeum-plasy.cz.

TheRailway Depository of the NTM Chomutov will be open to the public on Friday, 5 June 2020 during opening hours Friday to Sunday from 9.00 to 17.00. For more information visit www.muzeum-chomutov.cz.

The validity of purchased tickets and gift vouchers for the honorary ticket, which were purchased or sent before 31 March 2020, is extended by half a year.

We thank our visitors for their support and understanding and ask that they follow the safety guidelines. We trust that they will find their visit to the National Technical Museum an enjoyable experience despite the current measures. We can recommend the out-of-town branches as a particularly interesting summer destination.

NTM Press Release May 7, 2020
Bc. Jan Duda
Head of PR and Public Relations Department
Email: jan.duda@ntm.cz
Mob: +420 770 121 917
National Technical Museum
Kostelní 42, 170 00, Prague 7