Not far from the center is the Museum of Public Transport or Muzeum městské hromadné dopravy. About 50 types of historical trams and buses that were built in different eras are stored here. All of them are in working order, and some of them still take tourists for rides.

General information about the museum

Always special attention was given to the public, the management of which was organized down to the smallest detail. In order to perpetuate these traditions, the government of the country decided to found. It was housed in the ancient building of the former city depot Vozovna Střešovice.

The building is National Technical, although at first glance it looks quite ordinary. The official opening of the Museum of Public Transport in Prague took place in 1993. Every year it is visited by tens of thousands of tourists who want to see unique exhibitions.

Description of the institution

Here you will see documents and photographs through which you can trace the history of public transport in the Czech Republic. The photographs capture moments of construction of tram tracks, vehicle depots and depots. The establishment has recreated employee workplaces equipped with communication and control systems.

The following are stored in a separate room:

• city ​​maps related to 19th century;
• vintage tickets and student passes;
• tram trolleys and ticket offices;
• transport models.

Which public transport is it in a museum?

The exposition of the establishment is a restored vehicle, which has been completely renovated and is in perfect condition. Each exhibit carries a certain meaning and has a unique historical significance. Of greatest interest to visitors are:

Features of the visit

During this time, guests will be able to hear live music, board some trams and even ride the famous 9-stop ring route No. 91. The ticket price is $1.6, and travel time takes up to 40 minutes.

You can visit the Transport Museum in Prague from April to November, only on weekends and holidays from 09:00 to 17:00. An exception may be made for foreign groups. Ticket prices are $2.3 and $1.4 for adults and children from 6 to 15 years old, respectively.

How to get there?

You can get to the establishment by trams No. 1, 2, 18, 25 and 41. The stop is called Vozovna Střešovice. The following streets also lead from the center to the museum: Žitná, Václavské nám. and Karlův most.

Mechanical engineering has always been well developed in the Czech Republic, so it is not surprising that the country paid great attention to the development of public transport. Transport is especially well developed in Prague, where there is even a transport museum.

The museum is located in a former tram depot; most of the exhibition consists of restored trams from various years of production. There are even horse-drawn trams on display here, called horse-drawn trams. In Prague, horse-drawn trams began operating in 1875. The first route extended from the Bridge of Legions at the National Theater to the Karlin area, where there was a tram depot.

By 1905, all Prague tram routes had been completely converted to electric trams. By 1907, Prague's tram lines extended over 55 km and served 17 routes. The photo shows a tram from 1896.

Tram 1900, produced in 1900 in Prague at the Smichov plant for the World Exhibition in Paris (this is the exhibition for which the Eiffel Tower was built). The tram was named the Mayor's Tram (Primátorská tramvaj) and served for executive purposes. The tram has a very rich interior decoration.

In the museum you will see retro photos Prague and documents from which you can study the history of the development of public transport in the city. The photographs show how the tram tracks were built, what the streets looked like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and what trams the city's public transport fleet consisted of.

Retro photography bus routes Prague in 1938, where you can see that night bus routes appeared at that time.

The museum recreates the workplace of a representative of a transport company from the early 20th century. In addition, all kinds of technical innovations of a certain era are exhibited: tram bogies, communication systems, tram control systems and much more. People who love technology will enjoy looking at all this. If you have not been to, I advise you to look there too.

Already at that time, the transport company was thinking about ease of navigation. For example, when approaching a tram stop, you can see the direction of travel of one or another tram route, and you don’t need to keep everything in your head. Now tram stops in Prague are designed in a similar way, however, a schedule and an electronic display have been added.

But Jews were prohibited from using transport, as evidenced by certain signs “Židům vstup zakázán”. All Jews had to walk. Although since 1939, Jews have been prohibited from going to sporting events, to the swimming pool, to cafes, restaurants, to hold many positions and much more.

To keep people from getting bored, live music is played. Although the museum is not at all boring, because there are 50 exhibits, of which the most are trams, because This is the most interesting Prague transport from a historical point of view.

Tram 444 series produced in 1923. Produced in Prague at the Ringhoffer and Krzyzik factories. On the roof we see retro advertising.

The tram was manufactured in 1909 and was also produced at the Ringhoffer and Krzyžík factories.

In addition to trams, the museum displays buses. Do you recognize the Hungarian bus Ikarus 280? In Czechoslovakia, as in other Eastern European countries, there were large number. I remember how much I hated these buses as a child, they always stank of diesel fuel, it was cold, there were a lot of people packed, and the smells constantly made me sick. Thank God and the development of technology, in the Czech Republic you almost never see Ikarus on city streets.

Karosa bus 700 series. I have known buses of this series since the time I lived in Omsk, when in 1997 the city purchased approximately 50 new Karosa B 741 buses. Currently, the Karosa company from the Czech city of Vysoké Myto is absorbed by the French holding Irisbus.

In the museum you will see other buses, for example, the Škoda 706 RO. Currently, buses mainly travel through the streets of Prague Czech production SOR, German MAN and sometimes Karos.

In addition to buses, trams and metro, there used to be trolleybuses in Prague route networks. Trolleybuses operated in Prague from 1936 to 1972. In the photo you see a Škoda 8T trolleybus on the left. In addition to Skoda, Tatra 400 and Praga trolleybuses drove along the streets of Prague.

Useful information

• Original name of the transport museum: Muzeum městské hromadné dopravy v Praze

For those who are fans of technology, and this is primarily men and children, we recommend visiting Museum of Public Transport in Prague (Muzeum Mestske hromadne dopravy v Praze). By the way, it is also called the Tram Museum.

The exhibits in the museum are densely packed, it is not very convenient to photograph them, and the angle is not very good. But it’s interesting to look at trams and buses; you can even look inside the car by climbing on the steps.

All exhibits of the museum, no matter how you look at them, are maintained in excellent condition; equipment from previous years has been carefully preserved everywhere. Probably only the light bulbs installed in place of the headlights are modern, and who knows? All devices, for example, trailed trolleys for cleaning tram tracks, or ticket offices, portable and stationary, are preserved with all their contents. The ingenious technical devices of yesteryear have been left intact. They are all the more interesting because they cause surprise in the background current state level of technology development. The carriages do not give the impression of being forgotten and abandoned; all the equipment looks ready to use right now.

There are also buses from previous years.

For example, the well-known Ikarus, or Tatra, less known to the general public. But the tram is a convertible, it has folding seats. And here is one of the first Prague trams, called “Konka”, which is a carriage in which horses are harnessed, and they are driven by an ordinary cab driver. In the carriage, however, there is also a conductor who is called upon to make passengers feel comfortable. It is interesting that at the end of the route the horses were re-harnessed to the other end of the tram, and along with them the cab driver - the tram driver - changed his position. The first tram, let it be known, appeared in Prague in 1875.

In addition to the trams themselves, the museum contains a lot of all sorts of relics of the transport industry, such as various equipment, just a vintage collection, and samples of documents, old photos, tickets, plans and other historically important artifacts.

The depot itself, in which the museum is located, began to function in 1909, and worked until 1992, despite the fact that it was awarded the honorary title of a national technical monument back in 1991. But the depot still operates on certain days, sending its exhibits to the line along no less historical routes, such as. This happens on weekends and holidays, in the summer.

The depot was converted into a museum in 1992, and since then has been open to the public from April to November, on holidays and weekends, from 09:00 to 17:00 local time. Children under 6 years old can enter the museum for free, but must be accompanied by an adult.

How to get there?

Address: Patockova 4, Prague 6, +420 296 128 900, +420 296 128 923, www.dpp.cz

The Museum of Public Transport in Prague is located on the territory of an old tram depot called “Vozovna Střešovice”. It is convenient to get here, of course, by tram, on routes such as No. 18, 1, 2, 91.

Museum of Public Transport in Prague on the map

Museum of Public Transport in Prague

is not quite the correct name for this Prague museum. Muzeum Mestske hromadne dopravy v Praze - that’s what it’s called in full, which translates into Russian as Public Transport Museum in Prague. The museum is located in the old tram depot “Vozovna Střešovice” in Prague 6. It is not difficult to guess that you can get to the transport museum by trams. You need to go to the stop “Vozovna Střešovice” on trams No. 1, 2, 18 and 91.

Route 91- This historical route. IN certain time An old tram of two cars runs along it and you can ride it around Prague. For more information about this, see my photographs and, and about the history Prague tram and night routes Well, the traffic pattern for trams and metro is.

There are a couple of red cars right next to the entrance. At first it didn't seem like they were fire trucks. But these are company cars. That's what I understood from the coat of arms on board.

But they are also equipped with stairs and some kind of wooden things on the roof.

There are quite a lot of trams and in some places they are close to each other and it is not very convenient to photograph them, but you can stand on the steps and look inside the veterans of the railways.

The museum displays not only trams, but also buses of past years. For example, the well-known Ikarus with beige chairs with routing number 127 and a doll wiping the glass inside.

Less known Tatra with the flags of two now non-existent states - Czechoslovakia and the USSR.

I paid attention to the windshield heating system. The window is made of two glasses, and wires are stretched between them, which heat the air inside and the glass does not sweat.

The equipment is in excellent condition. The only modern ones here are probably light bulbs in the headlights.

Very old trams stand in a row and some have open doors. You can't go inside, but you can try to see the interior through the mesh.

Sign with fares. Children 0.50 CZK, adults more expensive.

Low and high beam?

You can examine powerful couplings and even try to unhook them. I didn't succeed.

Many trams have coats of arms like these.

This is no longer passenger tram, and some kind of paramilitary. Trams in Prague were used during the war to transport provisions and the wounded.

Convertible tram with reclining seats.

A very interesting thing is a mobile cash register from 1928.

Passengers at stops could jump on here and buy tickets, and then get off and wait for their tram.

There are also a couple of stationary ticket offices here. The blue one seems to be made from the remains of one of the Ikaruses.

Stands and display cases with all sorts of contact groups, insulators, devices, parts and other pieces of hardware are installed near the walls.

Various devices of current collectors, fasteners and other things.

There are a lot of vintage items in the windows.

Old tram number 200 (1900). This tram is also called the “mayor’s tram” and is one of the most valuable exhibits of this museum. The tram recently underwent a complete restoration and is in excellent condition.

The tram was created by Prague architect Jan Kotera. The tram was designed in Art Nouveau style and was exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris, then all Prague mayors rode this tram until 1951. After this, the tram carried children from Prague kindergartens. In 1998, tram number 200 was recognized as a national technical monument.

In the photo is the Mayor of Prague Pavel Bem on May 25, 2010, on the day of the 110th anniversary of the tram and the coat of arms. In general, the first tram ran in Prague back in 1875.

Various wonderful trams of past years.

Tram with a trolley on rubber wheels.

The cart contains brushes, picks, shovels, wine - everything that no one could do without on the tram tracks.

Platforms for transporting rails.

And the tram that pulls these platforms.

There are various signs and plaques on the walls. On the right are some rails and fastenings in a section. Below are transport tickets from previous years and posters about how good the metro will be when the communists from the USSR help build it.

Under the ceiling, I accidentally noticed the figure of a man with a shovel. This is the husband of that aunt from Ikarus. Is it true…

One of the first trams in Prague was the Konka. The horses pulled the carriage with the driver and conductor. It is noteworthy that upon reaching the end of the route, the horses were unhooked and hitched on the other side. The driver stood in another cabin and the horse-drawn carriage moved backwards.

A water barrel that was used to water streets in the 1920s and 1930s.

The left poster talks about the street watering system in those years. The one on the right describes the mechanism of the funicular, removed in 1931 from Petrin Hill. Read about the funicular on Petřín.

With a similar gear system railway I already met in Budapest. I still can’t get around to writing about this. By the way, earlier, before the First World War, the funicular in Petřín operated on water traction - about the funicular, the hill and the tower.

The office of the boss or the chief conductor, or I don’t know who.

There's a whole bunch of boxes against the wall with interesting mechanisms inside. Perhaps these are gearboxes, or maybe some kind of arrow control systems. I don't know.

On the left is an old ticket machine. On the right is the stand “History of the development of information systems for passengers.”

The display cases display many models of various trams and carriages.

Open tram.

At the entrance to the transport museum there is a pavilion with souvenirs. Postcards and books are also laid out on tables and on stands. The shop sells various models, medals, coins, keychains and stickers on this topic. For those who are interested in models, in particular railway ones, learn about this topic in Prague.

There is also an exhibit on the street - some kind of incomprehensible contraption.

This is what the depot looks like: public transport museum in Prague.

There is a small cafe nearby where you can have a snack and a beer. While we were visiting the museum, I forgot about the historical route 91, along which you can ride on an old tram. Some foreigners asked the cashier when the departure time was. I also approached her and asked. It turned out that she speaks a little Russian. Here we waited for the departure of the tram, on which we were able to ride around Prague. But that's a completely different story.

By the way, in the museum you can see a blue Soviet-made Mytishchi metro car. .

Transport Museum in Prague - opening hours and ticket prices.

During our previous trips, we never managed to get to this place, since the museum is open from April to November 17, and we visited each time in winter. Entrance from 9 am to 5 pm.

Adults - 35 CZK.
Children from 6 to 15 years old - 20 CZK
Children under six years old are free

How to get to the transport museum in Prague, I already wrote above: Trams number 1, 2, 18, 36 and 91 to the Vozovna Střešovice stop. Vozovna is a depot, if anything.

Thank you for your attention and see you again!!