Lapidarium National Museum
This museum holds mostly original stone sculpture from Bohemia of the C11th to C19th.
Lapidarium
The collection displays over 400 items including: decorative columns from the crypt of the former basilica of St Vitus; intricately carved capitals with columns; Tombstones, one of Wencesles II's 10th daughter(Guta II);
the original Equestrian statue of St.Wenceslas from Wenceslas Square;
original statues from Charles Bridge(the following were torn down from Charles Bridge during the floods in 1784);
the preserved sections of the Krocin Fountain,(originally erected in Old Town Square in 1591-1596, demolished in 1862) made in brown-red marble, takes up a whole room.
Lapidarium
The collection displays over 400 items including: decorative columns from the crypt of the former basilica of St Vitus; intricately carved capitals with columns; Tombstones, one of Wencesles II's 10th daughter(Guta II);
the original Equestrian statue of St.Wenceslas from Wenceslas Square;
original statues from Charles Bridge(the following were torn down from Charles Bridge during the floods in 1784);
the preserved sections of the Krocin Fountain,(originally erected in Old Town Square in 1591-1596, demolished in 1862) made in brown-red marble, takes up a whole room.
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