Prague
Stories about Prague’s museums, libraries, architecture, coffee, design and technology.
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Prague Coffee Festival puts the everyday cup under closer inspection
At the Křižík Pavilions later this month, coffee becomes a subject for comparison and conversation. The festival’s useful promise is a closer look at the…
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Prague’s architecture festival looks beneath the familiar city
An old wastewater plant makes an unusually revealing stop in a festival about how we live. Prague’s Day of Architecture programme brings the hidden work…
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A free Sunday at Prague’s National Museum needs a little planning
Today, 4 October, is one of the National Museum’s free-entry dates. Two more follow in November and December. The invitation is substantial, but the exceptions…
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Cubism at the table: Prague’s Grand Café Orient
At Grand Café Orient in Prague, a familiar Czech pastry can take a square form, echoing the Cubist building around it. The café in the…
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What a Prague printer leaves open
A desktop 3D printer places an industrial process within reach of a workbench. Prusa Research, founded by Josef Průša and rooted in Prague, has built…
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An airship that gives stories somewhere to land
A steel-and-wood airship sits above Prague’s DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. Gulliver, completed in 2016, provides a setting for encounters between literature and visual culture.…
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After the book tower: a different way into Prague’s library
Eight thousand books and two mirrors make an apparently endless column in Prague’s Central Library. Matej Krén’s Idiom is an arresting introduction, but the building…
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Prague prepares to read design through light
Designblok returns to Prague from 7 to 11 October with “Light” as its 2026 theme. Across the Industrial Palace and a wider city programme, illumination…
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The train that redraws the map north of Prague
A direct rail service now links Prague, Berlin and Copenhagen. The route is practical infrastructure, but it also changes the imaginative map of Central Europe…