Mucha museum
Museum · Praha · Czechia
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Just off Wenceslas Square in Prague's New Town, this Baroque palace holds the world's first museum built entirely around Alphonse Mucha, the Czech artist whose swirling Art Nouveau posters and theatre bills for Sarah Bernhardt defined 1890s Paris, an easy indoor break if you're riding through the historic centre. It opened on 13 February 1998 inside the Kounice Palace, after Swiss entrepreneur Sebastian Pawlowski renovated the building and, in the years following the Velvet Revolution, persuaded the artist's daughter-in-law Geraldine Mucha to loan pieces from the family's Mucha Trust Collection. For over two decades the museum showed Mucha's own studio works and posters under that arrangement, until a 2024 dispute between Pawlowski and the Mucha Foundation over crowding and maintenance ended it. The Foundation withdrew its collection to open a rival museum in Prague's Savarin Palace, while this original Panská Street address reopened with almost 100 works from tennis champion Ivan Lendl's private Mucha collection, curated by poster historian Jack Rennert. The row even split rights to the "Mucha Museum" name between the two competing institutions.
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The Mucha Museum is a museum in Prague, Czech Republic, housing a collection of works by Alphonse Mucha since 1998. It currently houses the largest part of the Ivan Lendl collection of Mucha artworks.
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- Why stop at Mucha museum on a bike ride?
- Just off Wenceslas Square in Prague's New Town, this Baroque palace holds the world's first museum built entirely around Alphonse Mucha, the Czech artist whose swirling Art Nouveau posters and theatre bills for Sarah Bernhardt defined 1890s Paris, an easy indoor break if you're riding through the historic centre. It opened on 13 February 1998 inside the Kounice Palace, after Swiss entrepreneur Sebastian Pawlowski renovated the building and, in the years following the Velvet Revolution, persuaded the artist's daughter-in-law Geraldine Mucha to loan pieces from the family's Mucha Trust Collection. For over two decades the museum showed Mucha's own studio works and posters under that arrangement, until a 2024 dispute between Pawlowski and the Mucha Foundation over crowding and maintenance ended it. The Foundation withdrew its collection to open a rival museum in Prague's Savarin Palace, while this original Panská Street address reopened with almost 100 works from tennis champion Ivan Lendl's private Mucha collection, curated by poster historian Jack Rennert. The row even split rights to the "Mucha Museum" name between the two competing institutions.
- Where is Mucha museum?
- Mucha museum is in Praha, Czechia (Czech Republic).