Lesser Town’s Church of St. Nicholas

Churches. Many of Prague’s churches are free to visit. The Church of Saint James on Malá Štupartská street in the Old Town is the city’s second-largest (after St. Vitus Cathedral). On the northwest corner of Old Town Square is the Church of St. Nicholas, a splendid baroque building by Kilian Ignaz Dienzenhofer with an exquisite interior. The Church of St. Nicholas on Lesser Town Square is open during prayer from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m. A major work of the baroque era, it is considered the most beautiful in all Bohemia. Near Lesser Town Square, the Church of St. Thomas may be small in size, but its interior decoration more than makes up for it.

Museums

• Museum of Decorative Arts: free each Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. The museum’s collection of 190,000 items constitutes a formidable panorama of decorative arts through the ages
• Czech Museum of Music: free each 1st Thursday of the month. This unique museum features an exhaustive collection of original instruments
• National Museum: free each 1st Monday of the month. The museum is a symbol of Czech culture. Kids will love the dinosaur bones, adults the rotating history exhibits
• Army Museum: always free. The Army Museum houses a lively exhibit on the Czechoslovak army from 1914 to 1945

• National Gallery: all of the National Gallery’s exhibits are free each 1st Wednesday of the month from 3 to 8pm. Choose from Cubism (The Black Madonna House), medieval art (The Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia), 19th-century art in Bohemia (Convent of St. George), Classical and Oriental Art (Kinský Palace), Renaissance and baroque art (Schwarzenberg Palace and Sternberg Palace), and modern art (Trade Fair Palace)
• Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures: free each 1st Friday of the month

• Wallenstein Garden; a beautiful garden located in the heart of the Lesser Town.
• Prague Castle: Golden Lane after 6pm, Convent of St. George (see National Gallery, above), St. Vitus Cathedral, picture gallery (Mondays from 4 to 6pm) and the royal gardens.
• Cemetery of famous Czechs at Vyšehrad: always free.