National Technical Museum in Prague

The largest museum in the Czech Republic dedicated to the history of technology and industry. Its dramatic central transport hall suspends aircraft above ranks of vintage cars, motorcycles, locomotives and carriages. Further galleries cover astronomy, photography, printing, architecture and mining, including a walk-through reconstructed coal mine in the basement. The collections trace Czech contributions to engineering and manufacturing. The vast functionalist building on a hill above the city suits the scale of the machinery on show.