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Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav – a car lover’s dream

In the Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav, just outside Prague, the car maker puts its rich history on display.
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The Czech Books You Must Read

Kafka, Čapek, Kundera and Havel, these are all world renowned names, but what about all the others? How well are Czech authors actually known abroad? Can you find a…
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The Grandmother: the book that every Czech knows

The Grandmother by Božena Němcová is an iconic work in Czech literature. The novel about an idealized rural community in the early 19th century, written in the days of the…
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The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks: A macabre study of descent to the dark side

The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks traces its protagonist’s chilling drift into collaboration and murder – and became the basis for one of the greatest ever Czech films.
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Marek Šindelka’s epic ‘monster’ Aberrant, award-winning ‘anabasis’ Material Fatigue

Poet and novelist Marek Šindelka, a leading author of the generation which came of age after the Velvet Revolution, on his best-known works: Aberrant and Material Fatigue.
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Kbely Aviation Museum – A unique showcase of planes, past and present

The first built in Czechoslovakia after the country’s founding in 1918, in Prague’s Kbely district, today houses a unique aviation museum.
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Pilsen Museum of Puppets maps the rich history of the Czech puppetry tradition

The west Bohemian town of Pilsen is known around the world for its beer, but it is also the cradle of Czech puppetry.
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Jiří Kratochvil: “I am obsessed with telling stories”

Novelist, essayist and playwright Jiří Kratochvil is one of the most respected Czech contemporary writers.
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Petra Hůlová’s Mongolian family saga ‘All This Belongs to Me’

Petra Hůlová’s poetic but often bleak debut novel chronicling the lives of three generations of Mongolian women remains among the most widely read Czech books in decades.
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Toyen: the unconventional surrealist rebel

Toyen was unconventional in many ways for a woman of her time and even by today's standards. Her surrealist artworks are still highly prized by art collectors today.
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Josef Čapek: Avantgarde Czech painter inspired by Cubism

Josef Čapek was a Czech painter, writer, photographer, graphic designer and book illustrator.
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Antonín Slavíček: prominent Czech landscape painter

Antonín Slavíček is considered one of the founding figures of Czech modern art, and a leading representative of Czech landscape painting.
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Alfons Mucha: a trailblazer in Art Nouveau

Alfons Maria Mucha is still remembered today for his Art Nouveau paintings and graphics, such as his iconic theatrical poster of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt.
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Václav Brožík: painter of Czech history

Václav Brožík is arguably the most famous Czech painter of the late 19th century and the best-known representative of the style of Czech historicism.
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Josef Mánes: the pioneer of modern Czech art

Josef Mánes left a rich legacy to the Czech Republic - but also fell afoul of a mysterious curse. Find out more in the first instalment of our new series on Czech painters.
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Contemporary Czech Animation: The Digital Revolution

The 1990s marked the beginning of computer animation, which gave filmmakers opportunities that changed the way animated films were made forever.
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The New Faces of Czech Animation

The films Alois Nebel (2011) and Dcera (The Daughter, 2019) are two of the most successful Czech animated films of the last decade.
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Karel Zeman – wizard of the big screen

In the second episode of our new series Masters of Czech animated film we present the visionary Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman.
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Karel Čapek’s ‘The White Disease’: a pandemic of fascism

Karel Čapek’s penultimate play was a dark satire of fascism, set against the backdrop of a pandemic, as prescient then as it is topical today, in the era of coronavirus.
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Josef Lada: Švejk illustrator and painter of Czech Christmas

Josef Lada is undoubtedly one of the best-loved Czech painters of all time, known for his illustrations of children’s books and his landscape and village paintings.
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Schikaneder: painter of Prague nocturnes

Jakub Schikaneder is considered one of the most important Czech painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his melancholic paintings of Prague.
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Hypomonitor: Fewer mortgages granted in April

Banks and building societies granted mortgages worth CZK 32.2 billion in April, a decrease of almost two percent compared to March. New loans excluding refinancing fell by…
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Weather forecast

Saturday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain around the country and day temperatures between 12 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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President signs into force welfare reform merging state benefits

President Petr Pavel has signed into force a welfare reform law that will merge several state benefits into one. The “super-benefit” that will be paid out from October…
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Leo Express under fire for launching free beer campaign

The carrier Leo Express has come under fire for launching an advertising campaign that promises a free beer to passengers over the age of 18 on all its trains in the Czech…
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