Thursday, September 13, 2018

Prague, Czech Republic: Narodni Muzeum

What do you do with a large, relatively new and relatively ugly building?

That's the problem that the city leaders of Prague have faced for the past several years.

The Communists built this place and put the National Assembly there. The architecture isn't too striking, but the Soviets were never too good in that department.

Then after the Velvet Revolution, the Czechs rented Radio Free Europe the building for essentially nothing.  It was a thank-you gift for the service provided during the Cold War. But RFE is no longer necessary, so the building has moved on to its newest use - a branch of the National Museum next door.

There is supposedly a statue of a happy worker in the plaza of this building, left over from the Bad Old Days.

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