11/43.- Prague, Národni Muzeum

'Národni Muzeum' (the National Museum) is located in the 'Nové Mesto' (New Town), in Mustek (center of Prague). Mustek means bridge, the name comes from the middle age, when a bridge crossed the moat of the Old Town’s walls here. The National Museum dominates the 'Václavské Námestí' (Wenceslas Square), a 750 meter long boulevard (at our back).

In this neo-Renaissance building constructed in 1885-1890 there’s an interesting Czech history museum. The statue in front of the Museum is the St Wenceslas Memorial (from 1912).

We’ll now cross the 'Václavské Námestí', and visit the 'Novomestská radnice'.

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