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MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS
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This museum opened in 1900 as part of a European movement to encourage a
return to the aesthetic values sacrificed to the Industrial Revolution. Its four
halls are a feast for the eyes, full of 16th- to 19th-century artefacts such as fur-
niture, tapestries, porcelain and a fabulous collection of glasswork.
Exhibition
The neo-Renaissance building is itself a work of art, the facade decorated with reliefs
representing the various decorative arts and the Bohemian towns famous for them.
The staircase leading up from the entrance hall to the main exhibition on the 2nd floor
is decorated with colourful ceramics, stained-glass windows and frescoes representing
graphic arts, metalworking, ceramics, glassmaking and goldsmithing. It leads to the
ornate Votive Hall, which houses the
Karlštejn Treasure
, a hoard of 14th-century
silver found hidden in the walls of Karlštejn Castle in the 19th century.
