Museum of Communism
A interesting museum that follows the history of communism in Czech Republic until it's fall with the Velvet Revolution. The museums has several interesting communist propaganda artifacts, which are worth a look.
Mucha Museum
This museum is dedicated to the life and works of Alphonse Mucha, a leading artist in the Art Nouveau movement.
Museum of Czech Cubism
The Museum of Czech Cubism is in the recently renovated House of the Black Madonna. This unique Cubist building, designed by Josef GoÄár, was built in 1911â1912.
Convent of St Agnes
The Anezsky klaster is the first Early Gothic building in Prague founded 1234 - something notable in a city filled with amazingly well-preserved examples of Gothic architecture such as St Vitus, the Charles Bridge and the Powder Tower. Over the years the complex's convent, chapels and several churches deteriorated and in some cases, were completely destroyed. After Habsburg emperor Josef II's religious reforms, the convent was shut down in 1782 and converted into lodgings for the poor. St Anežka, Sv. Anežka Äeská who is pictured on the pink 50-crown banknote, is the patron saint of Bohemia and founder of the convent complex. She was a daughter of the ruling Premyslid family, but no wallflower in terms of her activism, intelligence and energy. St Francis of Assisi, after whom one of the churches in the complex is named, founded his religious order in 1209 without the sort of financial backing earlier orders had enjoyed. As communism was crumbling, the remaining religious leadership, decimated over years by Communism's anti-religious influence, lobbied the Vatican to finally declare Anežka a saint. This happened 12 November 1989, though Anežka's niece Elizabeth had started the process in 1328! Today, the convent is used to house part of the Czech National Gallery's collection.