Top Things to do in Pilsen
What to do and see in Pilsen, Bohemia: The Best Specialty Museums
Discover the best top things to do in Pilsen, Czech Republic including Puppet Museum (Muzeum Loutek), Museum of Religious Art of the Pilsen Diocese, Brewery Museum in Pilsen, Narodopisne muzeum Plzenska, Museum of Ghosts and Fairy Tales (Muzeum Strasidel), Muzeum Panenek V Plzni.
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1. Puppet Museum (Muzeum Loutek)
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5.0 based on 49 reviews
Reviewed By 464jirkap
The Puppet Museum in Pilsen benefits from the local rich puppet theater tradition and maps the activity of puppet theaters playing in Pilsen and its immediate surroundings. The exhibition gradually presents the beginnings of puppetry in Pilsen.
2. Museum of Religious Art of the Pilsen Diocese
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4.5 based on 21 reviews
3. Brewery Museum in Pilsen
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4.0 based on 326 reviews
If you want to learn everything there is to know about beer, come and visit the Brewery Museum in Pilsen. It is located in the Pilsen centre in a 15th-century building with an original license to brew beer, which breathes the atmosphere of the Middle Ages. The Museum tells the story of the production, serving and drinking of beer from antiquity to the present time. Visitors aged 18 and older can look forward to tasting Pilsner Urquell beer there. On your visit to the Brewery Museum, pop in the Na Parkanu taproom, with its unique atmosphere of the 1930s. Go back in time and enjoy remarkable unfiltered Pilsner Urquell beer.
Reviewed By DrPiggy - Davenport, United States
This brewery museum surpassed all my expectations. It is also at the start of the underground city tour. I highly suggest doing both (and stopping at Senk Na Parkanu restaurant which is adjacent for wonderful food and beer). The beer museum is huge, over 3 stories. There are many life-size exhibits and monitors with video and narration that fully explain all aspects of beet making, which is of utmost importance in the Czech Republic. We spent an hour in the museum and then went on a highly unusual underground exploration of the ancient history of the city. I highly recommend doing both. Get your tickets for the underground tour ahead of time as they sell out (English-speaking tour is only at certain times).
4. Narodopisne muzeum Plzenska
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4.0 based on 24 reviews
The first step towards the founding of Ethnographic Museum was the Ethnographic Exhibition of Pilsen in 1912. The objects from this exhibition became the basis of the collection which was transported to the historical Gerlach’s House in Drevena Street, where the museum was opened to the public for the first time in 1915. The main initiator was Ladislav Labek, collector and the ethnographer, who also became the first manager of the museum. Due to the growing collection, more room was afforded to the museum in the house of the former Chotesov Monastery in the main square during the 1930s. In 1948, the museum became part of the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen. In March 2000, a new exhibition was opened, that presents municipal interiors from the Gothic period to the beginning of the 20th century. The second part is dealing with the life in the country, presents rural chambers or an original „black kitchen“ from the beginning of the 19th centrury. The exhibition is rounded off with folk costumes and customary objects from West Bohemia. A unique element of the exhibition is an antique apothecary shop.
Reviewed By laura_runs262 - Irving, United States
This museum is such a gem....it's in a large old house and has tremendous offerings of artifacts, furniture, textiles, stoneware, and art. You need a guide (you'd get lost, it's like a labyrinth!) but if the guide does not speak your language, the museum has binders with explanations of each item in great detail. Lovely, would recommend!
5. Museum of Ghosts and Fairy Tales (Muzeum Strasidel)
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2.5 based on 17 reviews
6. Muzeum Panenek V Plzni
Výstava panenek od známé vystavovatelky Jiřina Havlové, muzeum je rovněž ateliér na opravu panenek. Výstava je v centru Plzně. Otevřeno vždy po dohodě na tel čísle. 7393334835 --- Doll exhibiton of famous actor Jiřina Havlová. Musem is atelier for repair dolls. Exhibiton is in the midle of town Pilsen. Opened only for call phone number +420 739334835 --------- Puppen Musem von bekante kunstler.
