Part of the National Museum, the small Náprstek Museum houses an ethnographical collection of Asian, African and American cultures, founded by Vojta Náprstek, a 19th-century industrialist with a passion for both anthropology and modern technology – his technology exhibits are now part of the National Technical Museum in Holešovice.
Náprstek Museum
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