Czech museum to return original Beethoven score  PRAGUE (AP) – A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is being returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust. The Moravian Museum in the Czech city of Brno has had the original manuscript for the fourth […]
Storied Czech glass blowing industry embraces technology PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech glassmaking industry, with a history dating to the 12th century, is embracing new technologies and marketing strategies to help it rebound from the recent years’ global economic downturn.
Obsolete Czech phone booths converted to tiny librariesPRAGUE (AFP) – Two Czechs have breathed new life into telephone booths made obsolete in the cell phone age, converting them into mini libraries with the first installed at a Prague hospital on Thursday. On the shelves of the red booth, patients of the IKEM hospital will find a plethora of genres, including works by […]
‘World’s largest horse-drawn hearse’ a Czech museum hitCECHY POD KOSIREM, Czech Republic (AFP) – A regal 19th-century horse-drawn hearse believed to be the world’s largest has become a crowd magnet for a Czech museum built single-handedly by a plumber with a passion for historic vehicles. Czech master craftsman Vaclav Brozik built the massive eight-horse hearse around 1895. It is over four metres […]