ARMY MUSEUM ŽIŽKOV
The newly reconstructed museum offers visitors a look into the history of the military in the Czech Republic from the earliest times to the present day. More than seven thousand collection items are housed in exceptional exhibition spaces. The exhibits are complemented by dioramas, audiovisual elements and QR codes. For the youngest visitors, the museum offers quizzes, cut-out games and haptic objects. The first part of the exhibition is dedicated to the historical period up to 1740. The next exhibition presents the historical period from 1740 to 1914. In the exhibition of the First World War 1914 - 1918, the connecting motif is a train that imaginatively takes the visitor to the trenches.
The next part of the exhibition focuses on the period 1918 to 1938, starting with the return of Czechoslovak legionaries to Czechoslovakia, continuing with the formation of the Czechoslovak Legion. The final section is devoted to the political situation in the 1930s. The extensive exhibition 1938 - 1948 covers the period after Munich, the Second World War and the post-war period. There are unique objects on display, such as Otakar Jaroš’s pistols or the personal belongings of paratroopers. Another part of the exhibition deals with the events after 1948, when Czechoslovakia found itself behind the Iron Curtain. The final part is devoted to the period from November 1989 to the present day and the involvement of our soldiers in foreign operations.
- Opening hours: Tue. – Sun., 9.00 – 18.00
- Address: U Památníku 2, Prague 3
- Entrance is free
KBELY AVIATION MUSEUM
The Kbely Aviation Museum is one of the largest aviation museums in Europe. Visitors can see over 100 aircraft on display in covered halls and 25 in uncovered exhibitions. The museum covers the history of Czechoslovak and Czech aviation with an emphasis on military aviation. For comparison, there are also selected types of the world’s most important aircraft on display, as well as a number of aircraft engines, airframe components, armament, equipment, uniforms, flags, decorations and other memorabilia relating to the history of Czechoslovak and Czech aviation.
- Opening hours: May - September, Tue. – Sun., 10.00 – 18.00
- In October it is open at weekends
- Address: Mladoboleslavská, Prague 9
- Entrance is free
MILITARY TECHNICAL MUSEUM LEŠANY
The Military Technical Museum Lešany is located between Krhanice and Lešany near Týnec nad Sázavou in the former artillery barracks. This museum consists of more than 700 historical tanks, cannons, motorcycles, armored cargo and passenger military vehicles, rocketry, communications and engineer equipment and logistics material dating from 1890 to the present day. Especially unique is the collection of Czechoslovak military vehicles - tanks, motorcycles, trucks and command vehicles - from the period 1918-1939 and the collection of cannons of the Škoda system.
Among the unique exhibits from the Cold War period are rocketry and tanks - both from the Warsaw Pact and NATO armaments. With its exhibition concept, the museum subscribes to modern trends in the presentation of collections of a technical nature.
- Opening hours: In June and September only on weekends 9.30 - 17.30
- In July and August Tuesday to Sunday 9.30 - 17.30
- Address: Lešany u Týnce nad Sázavou Entrance is free
NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO THE HEROES OF THE HEYDRICHIAD
In the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrichiad you have a unique opportunity to see the crypt of the Church of St. Cyril and Methodius, where seven paratroopers hid for 21 nights after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The attack, codenamed Anthropoid, was successfully carried out by Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík on 27 May 1942. The crypt has been preserved in almost identical condition as it was occupied by the paratroopers and where they fought their last battle against the hundredfold German superiority on 18 June 1942.
In the memorial, you can see an exhibition that traces the development from the Munich Agreement to the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Reinhard Heydrich’s rise to power, to the preparations and execution of the assassination, to the fight in the church and the crypt. Attention is also paid to the Sokol resistance fighters and members of the Orthodox Church and to the many people who actively helped the paratroopers and without whose help the paratroopers could not have done without. The exhibition is in Czech and English and is complemented not only by unique collection items, but also by period audio-visuals.
- Open all year round: Tue. – Sun. 9.00 - 17.00
- Address: Resslova 9a, Prague 2
- Entrance is free
