The Kafka Museum in Prague’s Mala Strana documents the life of Franz Kafka, born 1883 in Prague, who wrote almost exclusively in German and whose novels of bureaucratic nightmare and alienation defined the literary sensibility of late Habsburg Central Europe. First editions, manuscripts, photographs, and atmospheric exhibition design in a former brick factory on Cihelna 2b. David Cerny’s SMS-controlled urinating bronze sculpture stands in the courtyard. Open daily from 10:00; CZK 260 adults. Walk across Charles Bridge from Old Town or take tram 22.
museum in Prague
Kafka Museum Prague
Also known as Muzeum Franze Kafky
Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, wrote almost exclusively in German, spent nearly his entire life within a few hundred meters of the Old Town Square, and published almost nothing in his lifetime.
- Type
- museum
- Destination
- Prague
- Cost
- Paid entry
- Founded
- 2005
- Era
- Contemporary
- Address
- Cihelna 2b, 118 00 Prague
- Coordinates
- 50.0880, 14.4105
- Official website
- Visit website