The Náprstek Museum is a museum of

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and

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located in Bethlehem Square ( cs, Betlemske namesti) in

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. It is one of several permanent exhibitions of the

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. The museum is situated in the former brewing and wine-making compound of U Halanku in the Prague Old Town.

History

The museum, originally private, was founded in 1874 by Czech national revivalist politician

Vojtěch Náprstek Vojtěch Náprstek (often called Vojta) (17 April 1826, in Prague – 2 September 1894), was a Czech philanthropist, patriot and politician, as well as a pioneering Czech language journalist in the United States. Background Vojtěch Náprste ...

in his former family brewery, as the Czech Industrial Museum. After his death the museum became the Ethnographic Museum, and since

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it has been focused on non-European cultures. In the 19th century the museum was one of the cultural and educational centres of the Czech intelligentsia. Much of its collection comes from Náprstek and his friends who were Czech expatriates, travellers and ethnographers. Only a part of the museum's large collection is available to the public.

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