National Technical Museum (Prague)

The National Technical Museum in Prague ( Czech: Národní Muzeum v Praze technické - NTM ) is the largest facility in the Czech Republic, which is concerned with the preservation of information and artifacts in the technical and technological field. The museum in the Czech capital Prague was founded in 1908 and thus before the Vienna Technical Museum in the former imperial capital. His current location since 1941 is close to the Letna park.

The museum has an extensive collection, but it is at the scene exhibits only 15 % of the total holdings. The NTM also has archives, including about 3,500 shelf meters of archival materials as well as approximately 250,000 books.

Since 2001, exhibits the NTM railway collection are shown in the Railway Museum Lužná u Rakovníka. Two of the most valuable exhibits of the railway collection are:

• Steam locomotive of Kladno Buštěhrad Railway, built by the factory in the state railway company with factory number 295 in the year 1855. It is a world of only three preserved steam locomotives Engerth -Type. This model was created as a result of the Semmering contest of 1851 by a suitable locomotive for the first mountain railway in the world to receive
• Steam railcars by Komarek ( kkStB 1.0). This last remaining steam railcar k.k. Austrian State Railways was worked up operational in 2005 and is located in the railway museum Lužná u Rakovníka

In the years 2009 and 2010, the museum was closed for renovation. The re-opening was in March 2011.

Future

The railway vehicles of the NTM will be shown in the future at the Prague Masaryk. A majority of the vehicles is behind is in a museum depot in Chomutov since 2007.