People in Prague can today, on the occasion of the state celebration of the creation of independent Czechoslovakia, see the small-party seats of government, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Petschk’s palace in Politických vězňů street will be accessible. The building in which the Gestapo had its main office during the Second World War is used by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The tour will remind you of the films and series that were filmed in the palace.
Today there will also be an open day at the Ministry of Education in Karmelitská Street and at the Ministry of Agriculture in Těšnov.
Neoclassical Petschka Palace is a popular location for Czech and foreign film productions, on average six films are shot there each year. For example, the films Vlny, Anthropoid, Masaryk, Jeden život, Milada, Lída Baarová or the Oscar-winning film Jojo Rabbit were shot in the building. People can also view representative spaces with period furniture and equipment or a renovated bank safe. The so-called Pieta will also be accessible – spaces depicting the dark history of the building during the occupation with interrogation rooms and cells in which members of the Gestapo interrogated and tortured Czech patriots and resistance fighters.
V Thun Palacewhere members of parliament meet, today people can view the main meeting hall, the ceremonial staircase, the Dagmar Burešová hall or the press atrium. Open day in the neighboring Senate will offer a tour of the premises in the Valdštejnské and Kolovratské palaces or a new exhibition on Czech state symbols. For example, the Mythological Corridor, Audience Hall, Knight’s Hall, Main and Meeting Hall will be accessible. People can also look into the Green Lounge, where the government of the First Republic got acquainted with the text of the Munich Agreement in 1938.
This year, the Straka Academy, the seat of the Czech government, will open for the last time in Klárov. During the guided tours, visitors will visit the entrance hall, the meeting hall, the new and old press room or the adjacent garden.
Rohanský palác, the seat of the ministry, will also be open on Malá Strana education. Visitors will see the Big and Small Hall of Mirrors, where management meetings and press conferences are held. It will be possible to look into the minister’s office, a new feature will be a tour of the ministry’s archive together with the ambit of the former monastery or an exhibition commemorating more than a hundred years of the ministry’s history.
Ministry agriculture will open its main building in Těšnov on today’s public holiday. Guided tours of the interiors will take visitors to the premises of the minister’s former representative apartment, his current office, meeting rooms and other spaces. According to the design of architect František Roith, the historical building of the Ministry of Agriculture was built from 1928 with the help of the most modern technology at the time, for example forty-meter cranes or reinforced concrete. For the first time in Prague, cast concrete was used during its construction, thanks to which its rough construction was completed in just one year.
Source: www.tyden.cz
