Muzeum

Můstek

line A

Náměstí míru

Hlavní nádraží

line C

I. P. Pavlova

The name is derived from the National Museum, which stands nearby. The station is located at a very busy place - the south-eastern end of the Wenceslas square.
Muzeum was the first transfer station in Prague: In 1978 line A station was added to line C station with an interesting layout that they share only one ticket hall (unlike other transfer stations in prague, where there are separate ticket halls for stations of respective lines). However, new elevators have been built later from the street level to both line A and line C platform so the ticket hall is not the only way how to get into the station.

Plan of the station:

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Wenceslas square. In the middle ofthe picture there is a statue of St.Wenceslas. It is an important meeting place of Prague citizens. In the end of the comminist era it was also a place where several major demonstrations against the regime were made.
Next to the statue you can see two entrances to the metro station. There are two because formerly there was a tramway line along the square with a stop on both sides of the statue. Several years after the opening of the metro station the tramline was declared useless and thus abolished. But later it turned out that it was not really useless and so it would be quite useful if it was there again. So it is going to be restored in several years.

St. Wenceslas and the National museum. The sculptural group is unfortunately in a scaffolding, otherwise you would see several other patron saints of Bohemia.
In the middle of the picture right of the monument, there approximately was the tram stop. And in the back (although in is not very clearly visible) there is one of the station entrances from the previous photo.

This is the new elevator for line A, built in 2005. (Well, in fact there are two elevators.)
I like its architecture, it really looks like something new. And the column on the right is also quite interesting.

A closer view of the column.

A station entrance next to the National Museum.

The ticket hall, serving both line A and line C platforms.

Line C platform, a view from the ticket hall through a glass wall. This is one of the reasons why I like this station - it is one of the few, where looking on the platform and trains from above is possible.
Here you can see a northbound train. In the middle of the platform there are escalators downwards, offering a transfer to line A.

Another view of line C platform, with a northbound train departing Muzeum.

These two gentlemen were the first who presented a detailed project of Prague metro already in 1926. But it took more than 40 years until the construction began.

The upper end of the escalator shaft from the ticket hall to line A platform.

The escalators from the previous picture don't lead directly to the line A platform but to this corridor, which is connected to the platform by two corridors. You can see them on the left.

A view of the central aisle of line A station. The escalators you can see in the background lead upward to the line C platform.
While most of the passages on both sides of the central aisle connect it with both platforms, you can see that two of them on the left look different. There are upward stairways and these are the passages from the previous photo. So initially you had to use one of this passages to get from the line A station to the surface.

However, now there is another way. And it is the new elevator, you've already seen on one of the previous photos. This is its lower end, so now it is possible to get directly from the central aisle of the line A station to the surface.

The eastbound platform of line A station.

And an eastbound train leaving for Náměstí míru.