Older news On December 20th, 2012 the National Technical Museum will host the unveiling of the nomination for the Czech Grand Design Prize of 2012. The exhibition, which will run through March 31st, 2013, presents the voting results from the Academy of Design of the Czech Republic, and was created by 51 active curators, theoreticians and publicists, from the Czech Republic as well as other countries. The Academy nominated 134 subjects in the first round, from eight categories, spanning 206 projects. Visitors will see work of nominated designers in the following categories: Designer of the Year, Fashion Designer of the Year, Jewelry Designer of the Year, Graphic Designer of the Year and Photographer of the Year.  With the coming of the Advent, the National Technical Museum has prepared a display of Christmas decorations. It will be accessible to the public from December 6th, 2012 through January 6th, 2013. This unique exhibit is a cooperative effort with the private collector Robin Böhm, whose comprehensive collection traces the history of one of our most widespread traditions – decorating the Christmas tree.  The exhibition will present two completely different faces of the villa built by the architect Max Spielmann in the years 1925-1930 for banker Otto Petschek. On one side villa is based on a conservative representation of the architectural concept of luxury villas in the most neoslohovém concept inspired the French Baroque. On the other hand, the object is on an unprecedented scale packed with all the top achievements of contemporary techniques to the extent practically destitute of comparison. The exhibition will be possible to see two different aspects of this villa - as examples of the historicist its equipment and inventory, as well as modern technical equipment of its facilities.
 The National Technical Museum in cooperation with the TITANIC publishing house has prepared an exhibit titled "Petite Pearls of Czech Architecture", opening November 2nd, 2012 and running through March 31st, 2013. The Chapel of Our Lord's Agony, a village square, a water fountain, a crematorium, an apiary, a defensive medieval tower, a windmill and a small hydro-electric powerplant are all structures that are physically fairly small, but are examples of beautiful architectural craftsmanship, each with its own unique history. This graphically expressive exhibition is based on color photographs by Pavel Frič, supplemented with verses by David Vavra and short vignettes by Jiří T. Kotalík, filled with interesting facts and references. The exhibit brings together little-known places and structures with those much more commonly cited in textbooks.
 The new exposition gives a retrospective look into several "snapshots" of specific time periods, from the present back to the mid-19th century. Sections of the exposition are grouped based on specific selected properties. Visitors will see various technological fields represented by collections items in their characteristic settings.  Have you experienced night in a museum? Don't miss it this year! As part of the Prague Museum Night program, the National Technical Museum will be open from 7pm to 1am. And what will await you this time?  According to undergoing reconstruction of Astronomy Exposition, the exposition is temporary closed from 21st March to 26th March. We are sorry for inconvenience and thank you for understanding.  On 23rd May the National Technical Museum is for operational and technical reasons opened to 4.30 pm. Thank you for understanding.  According to scheduled technical update of the Interkamera exposition. The exposition will be unavailable from 17th February to 24th (from Friday to Friday). Thank you for understanding.  On the occasion of anniversary of Anniversary of the reopening of the National Technical Museum (February 15, 2011) the admission to NTM is reduced to 80 CZK per person, children 6–15 years old – 40 CZK per child. We are loking forward to get visiting from you.
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