Asian Cultures Collection

The Asian collections of the National Museum consist of approximately 53,000 pieces, making up about…

Book Culture

The collection of documents on the development of book culture contains mostly non-literary material…

Book collection

The core of this collection consists of the libraries of famous figures of Czech science and…

Archaeology collection

The archaeological collection systematically documents the life and development of the society of…

Historical collection

The historical collection contains a variety of historically valuable objects that can serve us as…

Theatre collection

In its diversity, the theatre collection documents various aspects of the history of theatre. It…

National Museum Archives

The National Museum Archives hold almost 1,000 archive fonds and collections. These are historical…

Ethnographic collections

The ethnographic collections illustrate the traditional and modern folk cultures in the Czech lands…

Anthropology collection

The collection consists of the following sub-collections: skeletal remains of past populations,…

Mycological collection

The major part of the mycological collection consists of herbarium mushroom specimens, wet…

Geological collection

The geological sub-collection holds a wide variety of rock specimens, which illustrate both the…

Petrographic collection

The petrographic collection holds over 24,800 recorded items. The core of the collection consists of…

Collection of tectites

The collection of tektites, bodies of natural glass formed by the impact of meteorites on the…

Collection of mammals

The collection of mammals contains numerous specimens from all around the world. It holds over…

Collection of fish

This is a collection of vertebrate fishes, which contains about 26,000 catalogued items from around…

Collection of birds

Collections of skins, skeletons, eggs, nests, stuffed birds and anatomical parts of birds.

Numismatic collection

The numismatic department of the National Museum is the leading scientific workplace in its field.…

The National museum is a research institution, which is engaged in basic research, applied research and experimental development, whose results are made public by way of expositions, exhibitions, lecturing and pedagogical work, publication work in all the spheres of its concern including museology and collection protection.

Contact

Ředitel Přírodovědeckého muzea / Vědecký tajemník NM

RNDr. Jiří Frank, Ph.D.

jiri.frank@nm.cz