Mucha Museum, Prague. Photo by Wendy Wrangham
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Mucha Museum
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When:
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Daily
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Where:
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Mucha Museum
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Kc120; concessions Kc60
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Daily 10am-6pm
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The Mucha Museum in Staré Mesto is dedicated to the great artist, Alphonse Mucha, and houses some of his best work. Amongst his many works in the museum and around Prague, check out his stained-glass window in St Vitus Cathedral.
Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) was a cosmopolitan artist, living in Vienna, Paris and America before returning and settling in Prague in 1910. A year later he completed the mural for the Prague Town Hall, the last major Art Nouveau commission in the city.
Mucha is best known, however, for his graphic and poster design, as art became increasingly at the service of advertising and popular culture. In 1918 he even designed postage stamps and bank notes for the newly created state of Czechoslovakia. Among his most popular posters were those for Paris actress Sarah Bernhardt.
The Mucha museum has an unrivalled collection of his lithographs, paintings, drawings, pastels, statues, photographs and personal memorabilia.
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