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A model of old Prague, a clock plate and a sundial
From 1826 to 1837, Antonín Langweil made a pasteboard model of Prague’s historic core. The Museum of the City of Prague holds Josef Mánes’s original calendar plate from 1865; a sundial survives on the eastern side of the Clementinum Astronomical Tower.
At a glance
A place worth remembering
An urban record in pasteboard
The museum presents Langweil’s model as a record of the historic core before Prague’s later redevelopment. Decorated façades and enclosed courtyards preserve details from streetscapes that have since changed.[1]
Mánes’s original and the town-hall copy
Prague City Tourism dates the original calendar plate by Josef Mánes to 1865. The Museum of the City of Prague preserves it; the plate at Old Town Hall is a 1946 copy.[2]
A surviving sundial on the east side
Prague City Tourism records a sundial on the Clementinum tower’s eastern side as surviving in its original form. The tower’s summit also carries Atlas holding a celestial sphere.[3]
Good to know
A few clear answers before you explore.
What does Langweil’s model help document?
The appearance of Prague’s historic core before later redevelopment, including buildings that have since disappeared.[1]
Where is Mánes’s original calendar plate?
The Museum of the City of Prague holds the 1865 original; Old Town Hall displays a 1946 copy.[2]
Where does the Clementinum tower retain an original sundial?
On its eastern side.[3]
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