Prague City Museum Main Building: AI Guide & Langweil Model

The Prague City Museum – Main Building opens to the public on the first weekend of December 2025 after an extensive refurbishment. The transformation is extraordinary: cutting-edge technology, immersive audiovisual projections, and the newly showcased, legendary handcrafted model of Prague make the museum a remarkable experience for visitors of all ages.

Prague as You’ve Never Seen It

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The reopened The Prague City Museum – Main Building at Florenc instantly captivates with its striking contrasts. Authentic, richly decorated historic wooden ceilings now stand side by side with state-of-the-art audiovisual installations. Highlights include a twenty-metre-long hall featuring projections of unprecedented resolution and the interactive River of Time. The Prague City Museum – Main Building has also established its own AI department and introduces Grifob, an intelligent guide who leads visitors through the city’s history in multiple languages.

Built in the late 18^th century, the museum's main building lies almost in the very heart of Prague, just a short distance from Old Town.

Langweil’s Model of Prague

At the heart of the exhibition is a national cultural treasure – the hand-made Langweil’s Model of Prague, crafted from cardboard by Antonín Langweil, employee of the Klementinum University Library. Newly arranged into 12 display cases, it reveals details that were once impossible to see: tiny courtyards, wooden galleries, and long-lost corners of historic Prague, including Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, and the Old Town Square with its famous Astronomical Clock.

Key facts about the model:

Created between 1826 and 1837
Prague before photography: a unique record of the city prior to major redevelopment
Contains roughly 2,000 buildings and thousands of exquisite miniature details

The completely renewed exhibition at The Prague City Museum – Main Building at Florenc offers a deeply immersive experience—one in which the past truly comes alive in the present.

Visit the museum's other branches too

The City of Prague Museum manages more. Museum branches can be found all across the city. A tour of the Podskalí Custom House at Výtoň is very interesting – located just a short distance from Vyšehrad by the Vltava River. This used to be the place where tariffs on the lumber that was transported along the Vltava to Prague from as far away as the forests of Šumava were collected.

You should also not miss out on visiting the other buildings that fall under the Museum's administration: the Petřín lookout tower, Powder Tower, or the Old Town and Lesser Town bridge tower. All of the towers and lookout points boast gorgeous views of the entire city as well as the Vltava River, which flows through the city centre. And if you are a fan of modern architecture, do not leave out the two villas that the museum manages: Villa Müller and Villa Rothmayer. These are located in the residential quarter not far from Prague Castle.