Muzeum Bedřicha Smetany
The Bedřich Smetana Museum stands where Prague’s musical and national identity found a modern home. Since 1936, this Renaissance-style building—once the Prague Water Company’s property—has housed a stream of Smetana’s life and works, placing the composer at the heart of Czech cultural awakening. Under the design of Antonín Wiehl, the museum sits in a small block of buildings beside Charles Bridge, on the right bank of the Vltava, in the historic center. Its ground floor is the main exhibition space, while the upper floors keep archive material for research, including letters, photographs, newspapers, and personal possessions such as Smetana’s earbone, reflecting his deafness and enduring legacy. Visitors can handle interpretive folders on Smetana’s most famous works and even listen to excerpts via an electronic baton controlled music stand. …
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