In the museum public transport Prague More than 40 units of all kinds of equipment used to transport people around Prague and the Czech Republic are constantly on display. Most of all there are of course trams. There are also very old trams made of wood, they are already 100 years old. It looks very unusual. Especially when you’re used to seeing a tram as a big metal rumbling box.


Unfortunately, not all exhibits can be entered, but you can stand on the steps and look inside through the enclosing mesh. The museum also has a couple of overhead service vehicles and a trolleybus. Among the buses on display there is an Ikarus Z80, the very famous “accordion”. I can swear that I saw the same one in our city no more than a couple of years ago, but here it is in the museum). In addition to all this equipment, in the museum you can look at various spare parts from it, rails, elements for fastening contact networks, models of trams and subway cars, old travel tickets, drawings, and even play some old film. In general, entertainment for a couple of hours. The museum itself is located in the old tram depot in Střešovice. The museum is open from April to mid-November, only on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A group tour can be booked any day of the week. The ticket costs 35 CZK for an adult and 20 CZK for a child. How to get to the Public Transport Museum in Prague You can take trams No. 1, 2, 18, 36 to the Vozovna Střešovice stop. There is also an old tram number 91 running from the museum, which I already mentioned in


Tram Museum- not quite the correct name for this Prague museum. Muzeum Mestske hromadne dopravy v Praze - that’s what it’s called in full, which translates into Russian as Public Transport Museum in Prague. The museum is located in the old tram depot "Vozovna Střešovice" in Prague 6. It is not difficult to guess that you can get to the transport museum by trams. You need to go to the stop "Vozovna Střešovice" by trams No. 1, 2, 18, 36 and 91.

There are a couple of red cars right next to the entrance. At first it didn't seem like they were fire trucks. But these are company cars. That's what I understood from the coat of arms on board.

But they are also equipped with stairs and some kind of wooden things on the roof.



There are quite a lot of trams and in some places they are close to each other and it is not very convenient to photograph them, but you can stand on the steps and look inside the veterans of the railways.



The museum displays not only trams, but also buses of past years. For example, the well-known Ikarus with beige chairs with route number 127 and a doll wiping the glass inside.




Less known Tatra with the flags of two now non-existent states - Czechoslovakia and the USSR.



I paid attention to the windshield heating system. The window is made of two glasses, and wires are stretched between them, which heat the air inside and the glass does not sweat.



The equipment is in excellent condition. The only modern ones here are probably light bulbs in the headlights.



Very old trams stand in a row and some have open doors. You can't go inside, but you can try to see the interior through the mesh.

Sign with fares. Children 0.50 CZK, adults more expensive.

Low and high beams? You can examine powerful couplings and even try to unhook them. I could not get.

Many trams have coats of arms like these.

This is no longer a passenger tram, but some kind of paramilitary one. Trams in Prague were used during the war to transport provisions and the wounded.

Convertible tram with reclining seats.


A very interesting thing is a mobile cash register from 1928.



Passengers at stops could jump on here and buy tickets, and then get off and wait for their tram.



There are also a couple of stationary ticket offices here. The blue one seems to be made from the remains of one of the Ikaruses.



Stands and display cases with all sorts of contact groups, insulators, devices, parts and other pieces of hardware are installed near the walls.

Various devices of current collectors, fasteners and other things.

There are a lot of vintage items in the windows.

Old tram number 200 (1900). This tram is also called the "mayor's tram" and is one of the most valuable exhibits of this museum. The tram recently underwent a complete restoration and is in excellent condition.



The tram was created by Prague architect Jan Kotera. The tram is designed in Art Nouveau style and was exhibited at World's Fair in Paris, then all Prague mayors rode this tram until 1951. After this, the tram carried children from Prague kindergartens. In 1998, tram number 200 was recognized as a national technical monument.



In the photo is the Mayor of Prague Pavel Bem on May 25, 2010, on the day of the 110th anniversary of the tram and the coat of arms. In general, the first tram ran in Prague back in 1875. Various wonderful trams of past years.



Tram with a trolley on rubber wheels.

The cart contains brushes, picks, shovels, wine - everything that no one could do without on the tram tracks.

Platforms for transporting rails.

And the tram that pulls these platforms.

There are various signs and plaques on the walls. On the right are some rails and fastenings in a section. Below are transport tickets from previous years and posters about what will happen good metro when the communists from the USSR help build it.





Under the ceiling, I accidentally noticed the figure of a man with a shovel. This is the husband of that aunt from Ikarus. Is it true...

One of the first trams in Prague is the Konka. The horses pulled the carriage with the driver and conductor. It is noteworthy that upon reaching the end of the route, the horses were unhooked and hitched on the other side. The driver stood in another cabin and the horse-drawn carriage moved backwards.

A water barrel that was used to water streets in the 1920s and 1930s.



The left poster talks about the street watering system in those years. The one on the right describes the mechanism of the funicular, removed in 1931 from Petrin Hill. Read about the funicular on Petřín.



With a similar gear system railway I already met in Budapest. I still can’t get around to writing about this. By the way, earlier, before the First World War, the funicular in Petřín operated on water traction - about the funicular, the hill and the tower.



The office of the chief or the chief conductor, or I don’t know who.

There's a whole bunch of boxes against the wall with interesting mechanisms inside. Perhaps these are gearboxes, or maybe some kind of arrow control systems. I don't know.

On the left is an old ticket machine. On the right is the stand “History of the development of information systems for passengers.”



The display cases display many models of various trams and carriages.

Open tram.

At the entrance to the transport museum there is a pavilion with souvenirs. Postcards and books are also laid out on tables and on stands. The store sells various models, medals, coins, keychains and stickers on this topic. For those who are interested in models, in particular railway models, learn about this topic in Prague.



There is also an exhibit on the street - some kind of incomprehensible contraption.

This is what the depot looks like: public transport museum in Prague.

There is a small cafe nearby where you can have a snack and a beer. While we were visiting the museum, I forgot about the historical route 91, along which you can ride on an old tram. Some foreigners asked the cashier when the departure time was. I also approached her and asked. It turned out that she speaks a little Russian. Here we waited for the tram to depart, on which we were able to ride around Prague. But that's a completely different story...

Transport Museum in Prague - opening hours and ticket prices.

During our previous trips, we never managed to get to this place, since the museum is open from April to November 17, and we visited each time in winter. Entrance from 9 am to 5 pm.
Adults - 35 CZK.
Children from 6 to 15 years old - 20 CZK
Children under six years old - for free
How to get to the transport museum in Prague, I already wrote above: Trams number 1, 2, 18, 36 and 91 to the Vozovna Střešovice stop. Vozovna is a depot, if anything. Thank you for your attention and see you again!!

The Museum of Public Transport of Prague (Muzeum Mestske hromadne dopravy v Praze) is an exhibition where about 40 units of public transport are on display, which transported people throughout Prague and throughout the Czech Republic. Most of all you can see examples of trams. Some of them are already 100 years old and they are created from wood, and not like modern technology from metal. Some exhibits can be entered as an ordinary passenger many years ago. You can see a tram that did not run on electricity, but with the help of two horses harnessed to it.

At one time, trams had two driver's seats - at the beginning and at the end. This made it possible not to turn the tram around at the final stop: the driver simply moved to another control station. Passengers were positioned facing the direction of travel. When the tram reached final stop, the driver “rearranged” the backrests of the seats.

The museum also has a couple of overhead contact line maintenance vehicles, fire engines and even a trolleybus, which is no longer found in Prague. Among the buses on display are Ikarus and Tatra.

In addition, at the Prague Public Transport Museum you can look at spare parts from this very equipment, rails, models of trams and metro cars, old travel tickets, drawings, and much more. The museum preserves historical tram stops with the same historical urns. From the museum you can take a ride on the old tram number 91 (Nostalgia Line).

The museum is located in the old tram depot Vozovna Stresovice. You can get to the Museum of Public Transport in Prague by trams No. 1, 2, 18, 36 to the Vozovna Stresovice stop.

The museum is open from April to mid-November, only on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Entrance fee: adults - 35 CZK, children from 6 to 15 years old - 20 CZK, children under 6 years old - free.

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Mechanical engineering has always been well developed in the Czech Republic, so it is not surprising that the country paid great attention to the development of public transport. Transport is especially well developed in Prague, where there is even a transport museum.

The museum is located in a former tram depot; most of the exhibition consists of restored trams from the most different years production. There are even horse-drawn trams on display here, called horse-drawn trams. In Prague, horse-drawn trams began operating in 1875. The first route extended from the Bridge of Legions at the National Theater to the Karlin area, where there was a tram depot.

By 1905, all Prague tram routes had been completely converted to electric trams. By 1907 tram rails Prague stretched for 55 km, and there were 17 routes along it. The photo shows a tram from 1896.

Tram 1900, produced in 1900 in Prague at the Smichov plant for the World Exhibition in Paris (this is the exhibition for which the Eiffel Tower was built). The tram was named the Mayor's Tram (Primátorská tramvaj) and served for executive purposes. The tram has a very rich interior decoration.

In the museum you will see retro photos Prague and documents from which you can study the history of the development of public transport in the city. The photographs show how the tram tracks were built, what the streets looked like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and what trams the city's public transport fleet consisted of.

Retro photography bus routes Prague in 1938, where you can see that night bus routes appeared at that time.

The museum recreates the workplace of a representative of a transport company from the early 20th century. In addition, all kinds of technical innovations of a certain era are exhibited: tram bogies, communication systems, tram control systems and much more. People who love technology will enjoy looking at all this. If you have not been to, I advise you to look there too.

Already at that time transport company I thought about ease of navigation. For example, when approaching a tram stop, you can see the direction of travel of one or another tram route, and you don’t need to keep everything in your head. Now tram stops in Prague are designed in a similar way, however, a schedule and an electronic display have been added.

But Jews were prohibited from using transport, as evidenced by certain signs “Židům vstup zakázán”. All Jews had to walk. Although since 1939, Jews have been prohibited from going to sporting events, to the swimming pool, to cafes, restaurants, to hold many positions and much more.

So that people don't get bored, he plays live music. Although the museum is not at all boring, because there are 50 exhibits, of which the most are trams, because This is the most interesting Prague transport from a historical point of view.

Tram 444 series produced in 1923. Produced in Prague at the Ringhoffer and Krzyzik factories. On the roof we see retro advertising.

The tram was manufactured in 1909 and was also produced at the Ringhoffer and Krzyžík factories.

In addition to trams, the museum displays buses. Do you recognize the Hungarian bus Ikarus 280? In Czechoslovakia, as in other Eastern European countries, there were a large number of them. I remember how much I hated these buses as a child, they always stank of diesel fuel, it was cold, there were a lot of people packed, and the smells constantly made me sick. Thank God and the development of technology, in the Czech Republic you almost never see Ikarus on city streets.

Karosa bus 700 series. I have known buses of this series since the time I lived in Omsk, when in 1997 the city purchased approximately 50 new Karosa B 741 buses. Currently, the Karosa company from the Czech city of Vysoké Myto is absorbed by the French holding Irisbus.

In the museum you will see other buses, for example, the Škoda 706 RO. Currently, buses mainly travel through the streets of Prague Czech production SOR, German MAN and sometimes Karos.

In addition to buses, trams and metro, Prague used to have trolleybus route networks. Trolleybuses operated in Prague from 1936 to 1972. In the photo you see a Škoda 8T trolleybus on the left. In addition to Skoda, Tatra 400 and Praga trolleybuses drove along the streets of Prague.

Helpful information

  • Original name of the transport museum: Muzeum městské hromadné dopravy v Praze

The Museum of Public Transport is a collection of urban transport, represented by approximately 40 pieces. The museum opened in 1993 and is located on the territory of an old tram depot. All types of public transport exhibited in the museum were previously used, however, after the end of their service, they were carefully restored and transferred to the museum fund.


The museum's managers arranged the exhibits in such an order that it was easy for visitors to trace the history of the development of this or that urban transport. In the museum you can see Ikarus and Tatra buses, Soviet metro cars, vintage trams and even trolleybuses that no longer travel on the streets of Prague. Also interesting are the cars that were used by employees of the Prague Transport Company to repair overhead contact lines and rails.



The pride of the museum is tram number 200 or the “Mayor's Tram”. It is made in the Art Nouveau style according to the design of the Czech engineer Jan Kotera; the unique exhibit is included in the list of national technical monuments of the Czech Republic.



In addition to public transport, the museum contains a lot of other equally interesting items: spare parts, platforms for transporting rails, old travel tickets, ticket offices, special machines and ancient means for purchasing them, historical stops, models of trams and carriages. The office of the depot chief has also been recreated.



Unfortunately, visitors can sit and look at not all of the museum’s exhibits; most will have to be admired only through the enclosing mesh. The museum has a small souvenir shop, where anyone can purchase themed gifts and models of public transport.