2024-07-22 12:22:46
The team created by the management of the National Museum in Prague is creating the concept of a multimedia museum of world cultures, which they have officially called the Museum of the World. It could be created at the location of the roof of the main railway station. Investors already stated some time ago that a public building should be built there. The representatives of the museum have already informed the Ministry of Culture about the plans and are starting negotiations on the conditions of implementation.
“There probably hasn’t been a new museum building in Prague since the National Technical Museum was established. If we want a really high-quality museum with collection items and an innovative presentation of the world, we won’t do it in the existing premises,” said Michal Lukeš, director general of the National Museum.
“We want to offer a walk through life showing that people have many common features such as birth, upbringing and childhood, relationship to time and space, home and living, business, medicine, law and justice, government, conflict, funerals and more. they built diversity and diversity. The motto would be ‘Unity in diversity’. We are looking for a way to present human civilization in a new way,” he added.
Collections of world culture are currently located in the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, which, however, does not have enough capacity for the museum’s plans and is currently undergoing renovation. “We started thinking about a new concept of how to present collections of world culture, and we came to the opinion that it is not possible to build a World Museum in its premises. It has visitor limits and the expositions do not fit there. So we think that the Czech Republic deserves to build a new construction,” said Lukeš.
A team has already been established in the National Museum, which has the task of creating new innovative content for the World Museum under consideration. It is made up of representatives of the Náprstk Museum, Charles University, Academy of Sciences and also cooperates with the ethnologist, anthropologist and scientific journalist Martin Rychlík. At the end of June, the Prague municipality announced that it would begin to deal with a change in the zoning plan, which, if approved, would allow the roof of the main railway station and construction above it.
“We would like to support the idea of a new National Museum building. The area above the Vinohrady tunnels is really suitable for such a building due to its proximity to the so-called Museum Oasis, we assume that it will not only be a museum, but a place with great educational potential in relation to the broadly understood education of the young generation ,” Prague Deputy for Territorial and Strategic Development Petr Hlaváček (STAN) told ČTK.
The request to change the spatial plan was submitted by the company CR-City, in which České dráhy and Penta, among others, are represented. Some residents protested against the plan at the meeting, and some of the city councilors do not agree with the change.
“We think that this is an absolutely ideal place for our planned World Museum. The capacity of the existing National Museum building, which is sometimes insufficient for the onslaught of visitors, would be expanded. The World Museum could also be used for lectures, film screenings and the like. Three buildings would be created 19th, 20th and 21st century national museums with the possibility of underground connections. We would have the themes of nature, history and the world in them. This would create a large central museum complex connected to the main station and the subway,” said director NM Lukeš. According to him, this is the last option to expand the museum on the existing territory.