Astronomy
The exposition will house a collection of unique astronomy instruments from the 16th century on, augmented by original documents and maps. The working models will enable visitors to understand the principles of how historical measuring and observational devices work.
Printing
An exhibition charting the development of printing focussing on the 19th – 20th centuries. The preparation work for various forms of printing and print outputs will be demonstrated in an authentic workshop equipped with original machines. The dirt of work, the smell of printing inks, original tools and templates will augment the overall impression. The machines will be run occasionally to make round out the experience. An inseparable part will be a space reserved for workshops.
The first hundred years
A long-term exhibition for the museum’s hundredth anniversary. It will have unique historical documents, photos and archive material and exhibits mapping the history of the Czech Technical Museum’s development from 1908 – 2008.
Architecture, construction and design
The historical architectural models, plans, projects and construction artefacts concentrated in this exposition will document the development of Czech architecture from the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. The visitor will walk along Viennese Secession or Cubist streets with period paving, a bench, a street lamp and façades and will glance into the workrooms of some of the architects.
Drives and engines
The exhibition supplements the range of expositions mapping the key industrial fields without which technical and technological development would not be possible. It presents stationary mechanical and electric machines including the combustion drive units of various means of transport, which impress visitors through their authenticity and monumentality.
Photographic studio
The exhibition will form the entrance to the reopened exhibition “Interkamera”. In a working model of a photographic studio from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries it will house a collection of photographic apparatus for taking studio, technical and portrait photos as well as indispensable props from the period.
Transport exhibition
The transport hall has undergone partial reconstruction. This unique collection documents the history of cars, motorbikes, planes, boats and trains in the Czech Republic and points out the links between developments in transport and society.
Technology in day-to-day life
The exhibition will document the importance of the lesser discoveries and inventions that we take for granted. The development of appliances and equipment will be demonstrated by individual items (the discovery, idea, invention), an explanation of their principles and workings (with an interactive presentation) and demonstrations of their present forms. There will also be illustrations of unresolved problems and dead ends in development.
Mining + a coal and ore mine
The open part of the exhibition in the 3rd and 2nd basement floors, accessible without a guide, will familiarise visitors with the history of mining in our country. The associated tour of a coal and ore mine will be complemented with sounds and the opportunity to try out some of the machines. The models and audiovisual projections will bring the public closer to the historical and contemporary mining technologies.
The history of iron
The exhibition will follow the development of production equipment and technologies in metallurgy, from the early beginnings to the present. There will also be the use of iron in art – the production of alloys for art, blacksmith and locksmith work.
INTERKAMERA
The new spatial arrangement of the reopened exhibition showing the history of film and photographic technology enables both the equipment and period photos to be displayed. The introductory part is formed by a photography studio from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. There will be regular accompanying programmes and creative workshops.