[Here’s a little something from the Boy…and I’m not even going to add in his trademark editor notes beyond this because I still cannot believe I agreed to pay money to go to this…]

I was last in Prague in 2006.  While there, wandering about, I stumbled upon a magical place. Deep, in the heart of Prague, right off the main avenue, hidden around a corner and up some stairs, is one of the best museums in the world.  The Museum of Communism.

The production values aren’t the best, and the signage to find it is lacking, but if you can find this place, you are transported into an incredibly informative museum full of artifacts and relics from the Communist era of Prague. It walks you through the various aspects of Communism, from education, to propaganda, to labor, to arts, to the secret police. Whenever you’re in Prague, make it a point to go.

Side note: the main signs on the street pointing to the museum were missing, so I couldn’t quite find the entrance at first. We walked up and down the street for 10 minutes to no avail, finally turning down an alley, past a casino, past some meeting hall, and into a courtyard of sorts. From there, we wandered around a corner, saw something on a sign that looked like “museum” in Czech, went inside past another casino sign, up some stairs, and finally found it.  I could’ve sworn it was a lot easier to find in 2006…

Real talk — the museum is a mix of hilarious, awesome, and actually informative. Machine-gun toting bears as the logo? Amazing. Cool old Communist stuff? Awesome. Production values that haven’t gone up since the museum was created right after the U.S.S.R. collapsed? Oh yeah. It’s like one of those “history” museums you see signs for randomly in a town, but instead of lame wax figures “talking” to you, you get badass Stalin statues and a side exhibit on how North Korea is still communist. And then you get anti-USA propaganda. Best…I was gonna say 10 dollars, or 10 Euro, but in Czech they use weird Czech money so I actually don’t know how much it cost to go in. It wasn’t a lot…I don’t think.