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Gas Museum

open:4 PM - 12 PM

Address:

U plynárny 500, Praha 4 - Michle

Institution:

Gas museum

Events at this location

Workshop

You'd be surprised what gas was used for in the past
Gas Museum

Come and see for yourself how hair was ironed and curled with gas in the past using irons heated on special gas heaters! 65 Czech and foreign gas irons will be on display.
Guided tour

Curiosities and world rarities in the Gas Museum
Gas Museum

The parts of the oldest Prague gas plant in Karlín from 1847, the oval gas pipeline from Charles bridge from 1878, the neo-rococo Villeroy & Boch castle gas stove from the 1870s, the gas movie camera "Bavaria" and the gas slide projector " Laterna Magica" from the end of the 19th century, gas radiator from "Victorian" England, a gas hat shaper from England, waffle maker from Germany, Czech "Moretta" automatic washing machine with gas water heating, Art nouveau gas interior chandeliers, gas mangl, gas refrigerator or a series of historic gas coffee roasters, irons and heaters for hair curlers. The museum owns the largest collection of more than 150 gas meters of various types, from the beginnings of the gas industry (the oldest gas meter is from 1873) to the latest, so-called smart gas meters. The Glozar coin gas meter is also a rarity. In the museum you will see the largest collection of "KARMA" gas appliances in the world. This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of its founder Karel Macháček.
Gallery

The history of the Czech gas industry in the films "Searching for lost time" by Karel Čáslavský
Gas Museum

"Searching for Lost Time" is a serial-type documentary films by Czech Television and hosted by Karel Čáslavský. It uses archival footage, often very rare and virtually unknown.
Tours

Burning flame on the sculpture of Ladislav Šaloun "Apotheosis of gas industry"
Gas Museum

Ever since the ceremonial commissioning of the Michle gasworks (1927), its main gate has been decorated with the work of the famous Czech sculptor Ladilav Šaloun "Apotheosis of Gas Industry", placed on a 10-meter stone plinth. With this sculpture, the sculptor ingeniously captured the essence of the gas industry, which at the time was based on the production of town gas by carbonizing black coal. The sculpture represents work and science. Work is personified by a miner who mines coal, science by a woman who transforms it into a more perfect product - gas. A woman is holding a piece of coal in her hand, from which a gas flame is burning. Only on festive occasions does the flame reach the sky, and especially in the evening the artwork is impressive.