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National Museum

The National Museum stands at the head of Wenceslas Square in Prague, in a neo-Renaissance building of 1891 by Josef Schulz. It reopened in 2018 after a seven-year reconstruction and holds natural history and historical collections.

Also known as Narodni muzeum.

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National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Diego Delso · CC-BY-SA-4.0

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The facade still carries damage from 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops fired on the building; some of the repairs were deliberately left visible as lighter stone.

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