Hobby shops and museums in Prague - 2024

The starting point is "Vaclavske namesti" (Venceslav´s square) with its well known statue of St. Venceslav riding the horse. This place is in the real centre of Prague. On the top of the square is underground (metro, tube) stop for GREEN LINE A/RED LINE C - "MUZEUM" and on the bottom part is stop for GREEN LINE A/ YELLOW LINE B - "MUSTEK". If you have any other questions or you will be visiting Prague, drop me a line and we can arrange some meeting, so I could be your "real modeller´s guide".
Best regards - Jakub Cikhart email: administrator@dstorm.eu

Museums

Airplane museum Kbely
WEBSITE: http://www.vhu.cz/en/
WHAT YOU CAN SEE: Museum has big collection of nearly all types which served in Czech Air Force from 1918 until today. It also contains a lot of civil, test and special planes and helicopters. You can also find there various planes from other countries, e.g SF-37 Viggen, F-5E Tiger, Phantom FGR.2 etc.

This year the museum is opened from May till October. Admission is free. Possibility to make photos without any charge (without tripod only). The museum also has a small shop with kits, patches, prints, books etc.

Mladoboleslavska, Prague 9 Map
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun10:00 - 18:00

HOW TO GET THERE: 

From the top of the Venceslav´s square go down to the bottom of square. Get on the YELLOW LINE - B subway at the "MUSTEK" stop and take it towards the "CESKOMORAVSKA" stop.
Get off at
1) "PALMOVKA" stop, climb to surface and go to bus stop. Take bus no. 185 and go to "LETECKE MUZEUM" stop
2) "LETNANY" stop (the end station), climb to surface and go to bus stop. Take bus no. 185, 259, 280, 302, 375 or 376 and go to "LETECKE MUZEUM" stop
I prefer way No. 2 as there are more bus lines.

When you get off at the "LETECKE MUZEUM" stop, the entrance to museum is about 10 metres away.

National Technical Museum
WEBSITE: http://www.ntm.cz
WHAT YOU CAN SEE: There is a few planes, but you can find there quite big collection of various machines, cars, motorcycles and also museum quality kits of various planes, ships, cars etc.
Kostelni 47, Prague 7 Map
Opening hours:
Monclosed
Tue-Sun09:00 - 18:00
Monday - closed, if there is a national holiday, opened 10:00 - 18:00.

HOW TO GET THERE: 

Get on the RED LINE - C subway at the "MUZEUM" stop and take it towards the "LETNANY" stop. Get off at "VLTAVSKA" stop, climb to surface and go to tram stop. Take tram no. 1 or 25 and go to "LETENSKE NAMESTI" stop. When you get off the tram, turn right, go along "BILLA" store, when you reach the crossing, turn right into "Ovenecka" street. At the end of the street you can see back wall of the National Technical Museum building. The entrance to museum is from other side. Follow the map in the link above.

Model shops

Artur Model Centre
WEBSITE: http://www.arturmodel.cz/
WHAT YOU CAN BUY: 

Big selection of kits, books and other stuff. The shop is "stone shop" for the biggest Czech mail order company. It has really great selection of kits and aftermarket sets.

U Krčské vodárny 1134/63, Prague 4 Map
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri10:00 - 12:00 / 12:30 - 18:00
Saturday09:00 - 12:00

HOW TO GET THERE: 

Get on the RED LINE - C subway at the "MUZEUM" stop and take it towards the "HAJE" stop. Get off the subway at the "BUDEJOVICKA" stop, go upstairs with direction to "Poliklinika" (hospital). You will see the big 9-stories houses, and the shop is inside the one on the left side.

NOTE: Possibility to pay by credit card.

Pecka modeller
WHAT YOU CAN BUY: Pecka modeller carry kits from Revell, Heller, Airfix, Preiser. This is probably the only shop which has plastic kits and also RC kits (planes, ships, cars)
WEBSITE: http://www.peckamodel.cz
Karolíny Světlé 3, Prague 1 Picture Map
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri09:30 - 18:00
Sat09:00 - 12:00

HOW TO GET THERE: 

Follow directions to MGD shop. Continue down the street, past the MGD shop, until you come to the T shaped crossing. Turn left - across the street you will see a small tunnel, which goes under building of New Scene of National Theather. Walk through the tunnel until you reach the street with tram rails. Cross the street, turn right, walk to the next crossing, turn left and walk for about 20 metres, the shop is on the left side.

NOTE: Possibility to pay by credit card. The Pecka modeller has also two other shops at two different shopping malls, just look at their site and look for Contacts.

And now the best part: when you visited all museums and shops, you have to be tired and thirsty.
Why don´t you write me an email and set up meeting in some good pub ?
If I am free, I´ll be glad to meet you and chat about anything.