Mirror Maze and Miniature Museum - Prague

Our last two days in Prague we made an effort to get out and about during the day... since most of my pictures to that point had been taken in the dark! 

Sofia had been wanting to go to the mirror maze close to the Petrin Tower.  It's not a big place and doesn't take long to go through but the girls had a blast in the distorted mirrors room.  And, it's a bargain at 75czk/adults and 55czk/kids... basically $12 for the five of us. 

The mirror maze was built as an exhibition pavilion for the Prague Jubilee in 1891.  The building was inspired by a former Gothic gate of Vysehrad.  The maze has 35 ordinary and 15 distorting mirrors. 

Open daily - Nov-Feb: 10am-6pm, March 10am-8pm, April-Sept 10am-10pm, Oct 10am-8pm

 

Diorama between the regular mirrors and the distorting mirrors - 1891 painting of Prague students fighting against the Swedes on Charles Bridge in 1648 - created for the exhibition pavilion of the Czech Tourist Club

 

 

Next thing on our to do list was the Miniature Museum displaying Siberian technician Anatoly Konyenko's microscopic artwork.... golden horseshoes on a flea, a train in the eye of a needle, portrait on a poppyseed, etc. 

The museum is small (no pun intended), takes less than 30 minutes to go through and is run by a less than personable curator.  It was a bargain at 100czk for the 5 of us = $5 (although the guide book quotes higher rates?!).