Franz Kafka muzeum

The long-lasting exhibition "The Town of K. Franz Kafka and Prague" was opened in Prague in 2005. It is installed in the unique premises of Herget brick on the Vltava River in the Lesser Town. It was first introduced in 1999 in Barcelona. The Catalan Center of Contemporary Culture presented it as the third of the series of cities of the world's writers after Dublin, Ira James Joyce and Portugal's Fernando Pessoy. Their creator is with the team of his collaborators, Juan Insua.

Thanks to its great success in Barcelona, ​​the exhibition was repeated at the Jewish Museum in New York in 2002, where it was also received with extraordinary enthusiasm. From New York, there were significant appeals to us to organize the Kafka hometown.

The exhibition of K. Franz Kafka and Prague was the first exhibition to highlight the influence of Prague and the Czech environment on Kafka's life and work.

This exhibition creates a metaphorical image of his life and work based on Kafka's documents. It is divided into two parts. The first, called the Existential Space, categorizes the major events of life and the influences of the environment in which Kafka lived in Prague. The second, called Imaginary Topography, shows how Kafka's physical reality in Prague and his life is transformed into a metaphorical image. The exhibition features photographs of people and places, manuscripts and books in sophisticated installations using state-of-the-art audiovisual techniques. The word, picture, light and music create a symphonic whole.

Exhibition rental comes from a number of important domestic and foreign institutions as well as from private collections.

Lending List:

Domestic institutions and private collections:

• Antiquarian Silent Clip, Prague
• Archive of Charles University, Prague
• COPA
• Josef Čermák, Praha - one of the founding members of the Franz Kafka Society
• National Archives, Prague
• National Film Archive, Prague
• National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague
• National Museum, Prague
• Memorial of National Literature, Prague
• The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
• The Jewish Museum, Prague

Foreign Institutions and Private Collections:

• Archive of Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
• Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
• Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
• Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig
• Kafka Research Center of the Bergische Universität, Wuppertal
• Kathi Diamant
• Museo di Storia della Fotografia, Florence
• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
• The Jewish Museum, London
• The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

Practical information: Venue: Hergetova cihelna, Cihelna 2b, Prague 1 Opening hours: daily, 10 am - 6 pm Opening of the exhibition: 30 June 2005

Admission: CZK 200 basic admission CZK 120 reduced admission 540 Kč family admission (2 adults, 2 children) 470 CZK exhibition catalog price per guided tour: entrance fee + 500 CZK / group (for groups up to 15 persons) or entrance fee + 30 CZK / person (for groups over 15 persons)

ACTION for Czech schools - entrance fee 30 CZK / pupil + teacher for group over 15 persons for free!

In the museum you can buy tickets to Mucha Museum with a 50% discount.