Mucha Museum
The Mucha Museum in Prague is dedicated to the Czech Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha, whose posters, photographs, and artifacts shaped modern graphic art and Prague’s cultural heritage. The museum opened in 1998 as a joint venture between developer Sebastian Pawlowski and the Mucha Foundation, incorporating works from Mucha’s Trust Collection. It was established after the Velvet Revolution, when the idea for a dedicated Mucha gallery took hold. The site is housed in a purpose-built space that later faced a major governance change: by May 2024, the Mucha Foundation had fully cut ties with Pawlowski, asserting that exhibitions at the museum were unauthorized and that contractual disputes over the name and the collection had escalated. The foundation claimed Pawlowski owed several million koruna and had kept paintings in conditions that might have damaged them, prompting a dispute over rights to the name and the works. …
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