Antonín Dvořák Museum

The Antonín Dvořák Museum stands as a precise link between the composer’s public image and his intimate documents. Housed since 1932 in a Baroque building designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, the museum is part of the Czech Museum of Music within the National Museum, and it sits in the northern part of the New Town. While the house itself has no direct tie to Dvořák, the collection inside makes a decisive claim on his world: photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes, and personal objects that illuminate his life. Key holdings include Dvořák’s viola and piano, alongside a unique corpus of manuscripts and correspondence, making it a vital research centre for the composer’s work. The archive now contains roughly 9,000 items, with the UNESCO Memory of the World inscription recognizing a significant subset of these materials in May 2023 as the Antonín Dvořák Archive. …

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