Reconstruction of National Museum to get underway

After a nearly six-month-delay the Czech National Museum can go ahead with the reconstruction of its historical building in the centre of Prague. The museum on Wednesday signed a contract with the winner of the tender, the M-P-I Národní Muzeum association. The reconstruction of the museum’s old building from the late 19th century will cost over one billion crowns. The building, situated in the upper part of Wenceslas Square, was closed to the public in July 2011.