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Dolní Vítkovice

National Technical Museum in Prague

The World of Technology at Your Fingertips

are about a hundred unique ones here. In addition, you can see historical engines, military equipment, old toys, carts, and many other things that make up the motorcycle history. ▪ motomuseum-hostalek.cz

There are many more famous Czech brands – Moser glass, Solo Sušice matches, Koh-i-noor Hardmuth pencils, the inimitable Becherovka liqueur, engineering products from ČKD, and others. You can experience their stories, accompanied by stories of people and wondrous products, at one of the Czech technical museums.

Dolní Vítkovice and Landek Park in Ostrava

7 The National Technical Museum in Prague In the immense space of the museum, among the unique exhibits you can experience the history of automobile, motorcycle, aviation, and marine or rail transport in the Czech lands. Additionally, you can visit expositions of Printing, Photographic Studio, Chemistry Around Us, Time Measuring, Metallurgy and Mining, Intercamera, Playful Technology, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Design or exposition of Television Studio. Another interesting exposition focuses on Ore- and coal-mining - where you may attend guided tour. ▪ www.ntm.cz

10 Mining and metallurgy have been a part of Czech tradition since the Middle Ages. In North Moravian Ostrava, which is famous for mining, a unique adventure park was built. You can view furnaces, experience first-hand the feelings of a miner, from changing clothes in historical chain changing rooms or taking an authentic journey down the pit, to the miner’s journey to the underground workings. You can experience a ride in the original carts pulled by a functional mining locomotive, which were used for transporting people in the mine. Experienced miners will guide you through the 250 m of mine tunnels. In the popular-science centres of the Big and Small World of Technology, you will learn interesting scientific and technological facts in a fun way, complete with the mystery of inventions from the steam engine to present. Lovers of industrial monuments will enjoy the Techno Route in Ostrava. It connects buildings of a technical nature associated with the tradition of mining, metallurgy, railway transport, automotive industry, but also fire service equipment, beer industry, and military or agricultural history. ▪ www.dolnivitkovice.cz

8 Technical Museum in Brno A wide range of seventeen permanent exhibits and countless occasional exhibitions. You will become familiar with the history of optics, computing, you will travel through time From Tom-toms to the Internet, as well as through a Crafts Lane, you will be enchanted by Historical Stereovision, Historical Cars, Water Engines, Salon of Mechanical Music, Brno on Two Wheels, Aircraft Engines, Metal Casting, Cutlery, and others. ▪ www.technicalmuseum.cz

9 South Bohemian Motorcycle Museum in České Budějovice In the attractive setting of the historical town nestles the South Bohemian Motorcycle Museum, one of the largest in the country with respect to two-wheeled vehicles – there

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Prague Konopiště

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Brno

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