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Virtual reality, augmented reality and digital guides – the National Museum has transformed itself in recent years into a modern space where history is connected with the latest technologies. Through the mobile app “Museum in your pocket”, you can see the fin whale in augmented reality, meet important figures of Czech history in the Pantheon thanks to technology that combines the real world with digital elements and, from 1 July 2025, newly experience a fascinating virtual journey through time as part of the Steps of Progress project on the 2nd floor as an exceptional part of the long-term exhibition History.
Thanks to virtual reality goggles, you'll find yourself in the compartment of a railway carriage, where you'll gradually meet fellow passengers from different periods – from the late 19th century to the present day, and perhaps even the future. You'll hear fictional but thought-provoking conversations between real historical figures about the meaning of electric light, the organisation of work, and the benefits and potential pitfalls of technological progress.
In 1890, 1930 and 1960, thanks to 360° video, you will meet the inventor František Křižík and the composer Antonín Dvořák, the entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa and the actress and wife of Karel Čapek, Olga Scheinpflugová, or the scientist Jaroslav Heyrovský and the actor Jan Werich, whose reflections are accompanied by insight, humour and irony. At the end, two robots also join the train compartment and show that the view of humanity and its efforts to progress can be different – human or artificial.
Steps of Progress is not only an engaging visual experience, but also an invitation to reflection. About progress, which is not always linear, without mistakes and errors. About the technologies that are transforming us – and about ourselves trying to keep up with these changes. Or to slow them down. For the essence of man is also in his contradictions. The exhibition Steps of Progress was created by the team of the National Museum in cooperation with 3dsense, s.r.o. and R.U.R. Postproduction. The project was realized thanks to the sponsorship support of Philip Morris ČR a.s., which has long supported education, culture and modern forms of knowledge.
Steps of Progress is another virtual experience that the National Museum offers its visitors. Through the Museum in your pocket mobile app, you can view the legendary fin whale in augmented reality, or take a peek into the history of our country and get to know important personalities in the augmented reality Pantheon: Living Roots.
