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A Life Dedicated to Pragas. A Tribute to Emil Příhoda
Eight restored Praga vehicles from Emil Příhoda's private collection, shown alongside a borrowed Praga Alfa and motoring awards honouring the collector.
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Emil Příhoda bought his first Praga, a 1926 Alfa, as an ordinary family car the year his son was born. He got the 1921 Praga Grand, the top of the firm's range, after a woman on a training course he was teaching told him her family had a much nicer car at home.
Both cars are here, with seven more Pragas built between 1921 and 1946: the Mignon and the Golden, a Super Piccolo, a Praga AN truck and an AN bus. The museum bought 15 cars from his collection and shows eight; the Alfa is on loan. You may know two already: the 1926 AN truck appears in the film Postřižiny and the 1935 Super Piccolo in Saturnin.
It's a nine-car show about the brand that led Czechoslovak car and truck sales in the 1920s. The cheapest Praga cost about 20,000 crowns, against an average monthly wage of 789 in 1930. It sits in the Transport Hall of the main building at Letná, until 3 January 2027.
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The 1926 Praga Alfa
Příhoda's first Praga, bought as a family car and the start of a six-decade collection; it is the one car here on loan from him.
The 1921 Praga Grand
Praga's luxury flagship, which Příhoda tracked down after a course participant boasted her family's car beat his Alfa.
The 1935 Super Piccolo
Praga's small car, once the most common passenger car in the country, and the one that plays in the comedy Saturnin.
The 1926 Praga AN truck
A small utility truck that turns up in the film Postřižiny, shown with a Praga AN bus.
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- Nerding Out
- Rainy Days
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- A Life Dedicated to Pragas. A Tribute to Emil PříhodaCourtesy of National Technical Museum
- Radka Bodzewicz: FAUSTCourtesy of DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
- Květa Kovářová – For the Shape of the FigureCourtesy of Museum Kampa
- National Technical MuseumToklick / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Gallery Prague – Convent of St Agnes of BohemiaVitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair PalaceŠJů / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Jewish Museum in PragueFeťour / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (UPM)Kirgyt12 - Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0