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Central Gallery is a private exhibition space on the corner of Old Town Square and Celetná street, in the historic house U Bílého jednorožce. It currently shows three separate exhibitions on Salvador Dalí, Alfons Mucha and Andy Warhol, whose names are painted on the façade; visitors can choose one, two or all three.

Madame Tussauds Prague is a wax museum at Celetná 6, in the house U Bílého lva (At the White Lion) a few steps from Old Town Square. Its rooms show around forty wax figures of people from film, music, sport and culture, and one floor is given over to Czech history and medieval Prague.

Choco-Story Prague is a chocolate museum opened in 2018 in the house U Bílého páva (At the White Peacock) on Celetná street, near the Týn Church. Seven rooms with historic objects, wax figures and an audio guide follow cocoa from ancient civilisations to modern Belgian chocolate making, and a window shows sweets being made.

The World of Banksy is an unauthorised exhibition of reproductions of the street artist Banksy's works, set in the Church of St Michael the Archangel on Michalská street in Prague's Old Town. It shows more than 140 reproduced pieces and video animations; the church itself is Romanesque in origin, later rebuilt in Baroque style.

The Jewish Museum in Prague, founded in 1906, looks after the heritage of the Jewish communities of Bohemia and Moravia. Its tour of the former Jewish Town covers the Maisel, Pinkas, Klausen and Spanish synagogues, the Ceremonial Hall and the Old Jewish Cemetery, with exhibitions on Jewish history and the Shoah.

The Pilsner Urquell Experience is an exhibition on the history and brewing of Pilsner Urquell, the pale lager first brewed in Plzeň in 1842. It fills three floors of a heritage-protected Art Nouveau bank building of 1902 at the lower end of Wenceslas Square, with audiovisual installations, an audio-guided tour, a tasting and a pub.

The Mucha Museum opened in 1998 in the Baroque Kaunitz Palace on Panská street in Prague's New Town and is devoted to the Art Nouveau painter and designer Alfons Mucha. It shows nearly 100 original works from the collection of the tennis player Ivan Lendl, including posters, decorative panels and drawings.

The Franz Kafka Museum occupies part of the Hergetova Cihelna, a former brickworks on the Vltava bank in the Lesser Town. Its permanent exhibition follows the Prague-born writer (1883–1924) through first editions, manuscripts, diaries, letters, photographs and audiovisual installations that evoke the city of his time.

The Slivovitz Museum is an exhibition about Czech plum brandy in a late-Renaissance house on U Lužického semináře in Malá Strana, opened in 2019 by the Vizovice distiller Rudolf Jelínek. Projections, period exhibits and a virtual-reality show cover fruit growing and distilling, and tours end with a tasting at the bar.

The Karel Zeman Museum opened in 2012 in Malá Strana, near Charles Bridge, and covers the work of the Czech film-maker Karel Zeman and his trick techniques. Its interactive rooms explain how scenes from Journey to the Beginning of Time, Invention for Destruction and Baron Munchausen were made, with original props and sets.

The Invisible Exhibition is an interactive tour on the second floor of the New Town Hall on Charles Square, in Prague since 2011. Blind and partially sighted guides lead visitors through seven rooms in total darkness, where everyday tasks such as crossing a street or paying in a café are done by touch, hearing and smell.

The National Museum, founded in 1818 by Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, has its main Neo-Renaissance building of 1891 at the top of Wenceslas Square. Reopened in 2018 after restoration, it is joined by an underground passage to the New Building, and its exhibitions cover natural history, Czech history and the Pantheon of national figures.

The Trade Fair Palace in Holešovice is the largest venue of the National Gallery Prague. Built in 1925–1928 to designs by Josef Fuchs and Oldřich Tyl, it was the first large functionalist building in Prague. After a fire in 1974 it was rebuilt for the gallery and shows Czech and international art of the 19th to 21st centuries.