From the barricades of the revolution to the TGM. What Prague looked like 70 years before the state was founded
The exhibition, which was prepared over two years by Tomáš Dvořák and Bohuslav Rejzl, can be perceived by practically all the senses together with the accompanying program. You can see the national tram of the burgher guard uniforms from the revolutionary year 1848, the hammer and trowel used in laying the foundation stone of the National Theater or listen to Jan Neruda’s column on the way from the Invalidovna in Smíchov.
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The exhibition is somewhat unique due to the fact that it maps the period before 1918, while most other events on this year’s jubilee end on this date, or focus on what happened next. “The visitor of the exhibition can get an idea of the political changes after March 1848 and the dramatic street fighting on the barricades in June 1848, which are often referred to as Pentecostal storms,” the official press release attracts.
It was the revolution and its suppression in 1848, the demolition of the walls and the expansion of the city after the Prussian-Austrian war of the mid-1960s, which the authors placed in vital importance. “The graphic sheets illustrate the determination of the barricade defenders to defend their city from the aggression of General Windischgrätz, a staunch supporter of the old order, as well as the stubbornness of soldiers in conquering barricades and occupying the rebellious city.” “It is a question of whether they fought with them,” author Dvořák remarked at Tuesday’s press conference.
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Plans of Masaryk’s flats
Other important events were the jubilee state exhibition in Prague in 1891 and especially the events during the First World War and the consequences of the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. You can get acquainted with the everyday reality of the lives of Praguers thanks to demonstrations and materials concerning the ration system, supply difficulties in the city or with the reception of wounded soldiers returning from the front. There is also a timetable for public transport – more precisely by tram – in style from 1908.
The exhibition will culminate in the events of October 28, 1918. “These are outlined here from the perspective of the main political protagonists.
The return of President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk to his homeland will then I see the visitor of the Museum of the Capital City of Prague in a period film. The exhibition is located in two halls of the main building of the museum and a new publication is also published. The city’s historical plans, photographs and prints are complemented by computer animations. Thanks to digital technology, people have an overview of the nine apartments in which President Masaryk and his family lived.
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