Beatlemania (photo: Museo Nazionale)

Prague offers literally hundreds of museums and galleries to visit. History, art (modern, classical masters, baroque, Renaissance, experiments, painting, photography, you name it), technology, nature, and more. We can't possibly hope to list them all here, but here are just a few exhibits we find worth seeing.

Cartier at Prague Castle - The Power of Style

Prague Castle joins the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum of London, and other famous exhibition venues in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, and most recently Beijing to become the next city where visitors from all over the world can discover 163 years of Cartier creations.

The exhibition offers visitors a unique insight into the royal jeweler’s treasures, showing the influences that led to the creation of these works of art, including original archives and biographical stories about their prestigious owners.The exhibition takes place at the Prague Castle Riding Hall until October 17, 2010. More information at Kulturanahrade.cz.

Beatlemania

This extraordinary exhibition in the Czech Museum of Music has two parallel storylines.

The first tells the impressive story of the most famous rock band of all time, from its early days in Liverpool to mania that surrounded the Beatles on their world tours, and continuing until the band's breakup. It also shows us the individual fates of the band's members, including their subsequent musical projects. One part of the exhibition is dedicated to the cultural phenomenom of the Sixties, when people were affected not only by music but also by the band members' personal attitudes.

The second storyline follows the life style of young people in the former Czechoslovakia during this era, including official and unnofficial aspects of culture and fashion. A particular focus is on the start of rock and roll (called "big beat") in Czechoslovakia and the reaction of the establishment to the lifestyle of the long-haired hippies.

The last part of the exhibition is dedicated to John Lennon as an icon of freedom, peace and rebellion against the majority society. It also reflects the importance of protest against totalitarian systems in the 1980s.

Beatlemania will be on display at the Czech Museum of Music until 10 January 2011. For more information, visit the National Museum website.

Alfons Mucha - The Apotheosis of Love

And a special reminder at the end - the exhibit at the Municipal House of this great and internationally renowned Art Nouveau painter has been extended!Visitors now have until October 31 to see this wonderful travelling exhibit organized on the 150th anniversary of Mucha's birth.

The exhibit shows lithographs, pastel paintings, drawings, prints, decorative items and a little known part of Mucha's work – photographs, most of which have never been exhibited in the Czech Republic before.