View of Prague from the Dome of the National Museum

I'm an elementary school teacher. Once or twice a year I take my pupils to the National Museum. This time I thought I'd take some photos from its dome.

This museum was founded in 1818 and has been housed in the building it occupies today since 1891. The building was conceived as a temple of Czech science. Functionality gave way to monumentality.

But today I just want to focus on the views of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. I don't think anyone has ever shown them on Hive before. But maybe I'm wrong.

The first photo shows Wenceslas Square. It is not the biggest square in Prague, but it is a traditional place of various demonstrations and manifestations.

The National Museum was unwisely separated from the square by a four-lane highway. The other four opposing road streams are behind the museum.

The building of the Federal Assembly (Our Parliament) of the former Czechoslovakia was built right next to the museum in the 1970s. Now the building belongs to the museum and there is an exhibition of 20th century history.

I took the photos on November 16th. Here you can see the preparation of the stage. 17th November is a national holiday in our country. An anti-government demonstration is being prepared on Wenceslas Square. This shows that we have a democracy.

I can look in three directions. The sun is shining on my phone from the fourth. You may have noticed that the dome is glazed and you can see various reflections in the photos. I can't do anything about it. Fortunately, none of my students thought to try and see if the glass was shatterproof. But I hope it is.

There is no point in calculating what you can see in the photos. Czechs know it and foreigners wouldn't know most of the names.

Prague is a city in a valley that can be seen from all sides. It has been proven to have stood here since the 10th century and is still being built. Sometimes there are fires, wars and demolitions.

After all. This is our tallest building in Prague, the TV tower. It's 216 meters high. You can see it from practically everywhere.

On the horizon you can see the housing estate where I live.

The biggest hit for the children was not the view of Prague, but the skeleton of a whale.

Stručný obsah v češtině.
Napsal jsem napřed článeček přes překladač v angličtině, teď píšu vlastně něco jiného.

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