Alphonse Mucha Museum in Prague: Visitor’s Guide 2024

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The Mucha Museum in Prague is an art gallery that collects the most famous works of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha. The museum’s exposition includes paintings, posters, drawings and lithographs.

Keep reading this post to take the most out of your visit to Alphonse Mucha museum in Prague. In this first timer’s visitor guide you’ll find all the details you need, like entrance fees, how to get there and best time to visit.

General Info

  • Address: Panská 7, 110 00 Nové Město, Czech Republic.
  • How to get there: by metro to Muzeum station, by trams 3, 5, 6, 9, 14, 24, 41 to Jindřišska station.
  • Opening hours: daily from 10:00 to 18:00.
  • Ticket price: adult – 240 kroons, preferential (children) – 160 kroons, family (2 adults + 2 children) – 600 kroons.
  • Official website: mucha.cz/en/
  • On the map: link .

The museum building is located in the Old Town (Stare Mesto). This museum has such a great location that you can visit many cool places within walking distance, for example, attend Wow light show theatre which is just 500m on foot.

In the evening, you can enjoy medieval dinner in one of Czech taverns.

Alfons Mucha Museum in Prague

Who is Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha or Alfons Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is one of the brightest representatives of the Art Nouveau style (also known as Art Nouveau).

He applied his talent in various fields of activity: he was an advertiser, painter, created costumes for the theater and staged performances, illustrated books and worked in the field of design.

The Mucha Museum is the only collection of the eminent artist. Many of his works were lost during World War II, but Czech art historians managed to collect the remaining paintings and other works of art and opened a museum in 1998.

After your visit to Alfons Mucha museum you can visit Lego Museum in Prague, which is located less than 10 minutes walking distance.

Ticket to the Alfons Mucha Museum in Prague

Museum exposition

The exposition occupies several halls and is divided into seven sections, each of which refers to a certain stage in the life of the artist:

Decorative panels

Author’s idea was to demonstrate Four Seasons from different perspectives: Four Art Cycles, Four Times of the Day, Four Flower Cycle. Main figures in those panels are young women and abundance of vegetation.

Parisian Posters

There you will see the early works of Alphonse Mucha. Among them are his famous posters for world star Sarah Bernhardt. Those posters brought fame to the illustrator. Advertising posters, decorative panels and other creations made before 1905 in Paris hang in the same room.

Czech Posters

The second hall is “Czech creativity”. After Paris, Alphonse Mucha went to America, and in 1910 he returned to his native Czech Republic. Here his work took a new turn. Pictures created at home are not like those that were painted in Paris. They show the motifs of Czech fairy tales and folklore.

Studio and Photographs

The third hall is the artist’s workshop. Art critics have collected Alphonse Mucha’s personal belongings that were with him during the creation of the paintings: an easel, paints, a personal chair. In this room you will see photos of models, documents and personal photos, sketches and sketchbooks.

In the last room you can watch a thirty-minute documentary about the life and work of Mucha. The film is in Czech with English subtitles.

Painting in the Alfons Mucha Museum in Prague

Photography is prohibited in the museum. The exposition is worth visiting for all lovers of art and painting. The work of Alphonse Mucha had a major impact on all of European Art Nouveau.

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