100 years ago, the National Technical Museum was founded

Prague - Exactly one hundred years ago, on July 5, 1908, the National Technical Museum was established. It was created under the name of the Technical Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia at the initiative and expense of the Czech technical intelligentsia, primarily the faculty of the Czech Technical University, and its first collections were made available to the public in temporary facilities in the Schwarzenberg Palace in Hradčany two years later.
It moved into its own building on Prague's Letná Plain, a late functionalist structure designed by architect Milan Babuška, realized between 1938 and 1942, after World War II. Today, its collections comprise about 60,000 registered items (including a significantly higher number of individual objects), classified into fifteen main groups and 78 collections by field. Their total insured value is estimated at 60 billion crowns. Among the collections is also an extensive archive, containing about three and a half kilometers of various documents from the history of technology and industry, as well as a library with approximately a quarter of a million volumes. Currently, the museum is closed. Its building is undergoing extensive reconstruction, which is expected to be completed this autumn.