Czech Republic

Description

Discover the history of Europe through the perspective of the Lobkowicz family collections at the Lobkowicz Palace in the Prague Castle complex. Tour with an audio guide in your preferred language to see pieces of international significance in the museum's 22 galleries, making it the largest and oldest private collection in Central Europe.

See masterpieces by Canaletto, Brueghel the Elder and Velazquez. Take in the impressive display of family and royal portraits, porcelain ceramics and rare decorative arts from the 16th-20th centuries.

Explore military and sporting rifles from the 16th-18th centuries and music-related offerings, including instruments and original scores and manuscripts from Beethoven and Mozart, such as Beethoven's 4th and 5th symphonies and Mozart's re-orchestration of Handel's Messiah.

Learn the 700-year story of the Lobkowiczes, as narrated by two generations of the family and the Chief Curator of the collections and hear the dramatic story of how the family lost everything and got it back - twice.