Visit the Mucha Museum in Prague

After you visit the astronomical clock attached to Old Town Hall and the Dancing House, take a quiet afternoon to wander the Mucha Museum in the heart of Prague. The Mucha Museum became a staple attraction after it opened to the general public in February of 1998. Divided into three floors, each layer of the building holds an exhibition dedicated to an artist. I’ve never experienced a museum laid out like this, and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Salvador Dali, Alphonse Mucha, and Andy Warhol in this way. It felt like a deep-dive conversation with each artist.

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Floor One: Salvador Dali

The entire first floor of the Mucha Museum is dedicated to Salvador Dali. When you visit, be sure to take a few minutes to watch the slideshow of his personal photos in the small theater room. I could’ve spent hours pouring over the many rooms of sculpture, drawings, paintings, and photographs. Dali (1904 - 1989) was a surrealist artist known for his eccentric, dreamlike imagery, and each room of his work in this exhibition lays bare the mind of a truly creative being. To be perfectly frank, I didn’t know he dabbled in sculpture before visiting this museum, and his sculpture work ended up being my favorite pieces in the entire building.

Floor Two: Alphonse Mucha

The museum’s namesake, Alphonse Mucha (1860 - 1939) was a Czech artist known for his art nouveau posters and panels. Many of the works displayed in the exhibition are from a collection previously housed in the Mucha family home. I enjoyed seeing the way he used art and a great number of mediums to document different cycles of everyday life, as seen in his panels titled The Four Flowers, The Four Arts Cycle, The Four Times of Day, and The Four Seasons. In addition to these stunning panels, the exhibition contains a myriad of his Czech posters, Parisian posters, décoratifs, paintings, drawings, and photographs.

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Floor Three: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s name is synonymous with his famous pop art series such as the Campbell’s Cans and Marilyn Monroe’s portraits, and while these are main fixtures of the Warhol exhibition at the Mucha Museum, there is a multitude of other works from the artist in widely varied styles. Prepare to be stunned by the vast array of photographs of subjects as well as his personal life and a huge selection of drawings with attached cheeky poems. I appreciated how the museum lays out each genre of his work in the top floor of the building with each room drawing you into a more personal understanding of the artist’s life (1928 - 1987).