A large number of Mucha’s Parisian works that brought him huge fame are gathered here. His long dreamlike and evanescent feminine figures, draped in flowing and diaphanous voiles, seem to be old acquaintances that we gladly meet again. The undulating curves, the smooth and faded colors in flat tints, the exuberant and symbolic ornamental motifs, the genius of his compositions, all are signatures of this great illustrator.

The second part of the museum leads to discovering another aspect of the artist. Although he remained out of the country for a long time, Alphonse Mucha was a die-hard patriot, defender of the Slav people at a time when discontent was brewing in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He went back to Bohemia in 1910 and used his art for the purposes of the National Revival: with his posters he promoted Moravian folklore or celebrated the sports organization Sokol. He was also chosen to design postage stamps, banknotes, emblems and other symbols for the new Republic in 1918.

This other reality, unfortunately only briefly described here, makes only more obvious the absence in Prague of the Slav Epic, considered by the artist to be his greatest work and which is a tremendous lyrical, spectacular and prophetic ode to the fate of his people. If one day his project of exhibiting his masterpiece in Prague comes to be fulfilled, we will be able to say that Mucha’s work is well represented in his native country.
You can also admire some of Mucha’s works in the St Vitus Cathedral where he created several stained glass windows in the nave, and in some lounges in the Municipal House, an emblematic Art Nouveau building in Prague.

Muchovo museum Praha - Alphonse Mucha Museum
Kaunický palác
Panská 7
Prague 1 – New Town
www.mucha.cz

How to get there:
Tram 3, 9, 14, 24, stop “Jindřišská”

Opening hours: every day from 10am to 6pm