The city of Prague

The Langweil model, produced in 1826–1837, is an original display while the many attractive one out of the museum.
Once it had been cleansed and brand new lighting was included it absolutely was reopened towards general public on twelfth April 2007.

It gives special evidence of how the Old Town, Malá Strana and Prague Castle looked ahead of the redevelopment of Prague at the end of the 19th and begin regarding the twentieth hundreds of years.

It had been created by hand using cardboard. On a location of around 20 m² the historic heart of Prague is portrayed thoroughly since it looked a hundred and fifty years back, including countless structures inside previous Jewish Town while the Old Town of later demolished. The colored model includes more than 2000 buildings at a scale of 1:480, while using the details of just how facades had been decorated and items in courtyards, landscapes and structures inside domestic premises as well as on adjacent land. For many demolished historic buildings the Langweil model supplies the only evidence of the way they looked.

The model is made by a member of staff in Prague’s University Library, Antonín Langweil (1791–1837), whom devoted all his spare time and money to their strange pastime. Even though the model had been admired inside the time by many people educated folks, Langweil never discovered a sponsor for his work. He died in impoverishment and his large family had been remaining with simply debts and an unfinished work, whose price at that time seemed really challenging. In 1840 the design became area of the property regarding the National Museum in Prague and much more than a hundred years later on it was paid to your City of Prague Museum where this is the most widely used the main historical convention. Just now can we value the actual significance of the Langweil design, its value as a first-class document so that as an extraordinary work of art.