If you like small technical gadgets that also teach you something useful or remind you, try the historical walks of the Museum of Memory of the 20th Century in the SmartGuide app. You can download it for free to your mobile phone, then select a topic of interest under the heading of the 20th Century Memory Museum - or maybe it's just near you. So far, there are four walks available that have taken place in the last two years. Researcher and memoirist František Čuňas Stárek is the guide for the latest one: Touches of the Underground and Břevnov will take you to the Bílá Hora and Břevnov parts of Prague 6, to pubs and residential districts associated with the beginnings of the Czech underground and the Plastic People of the Universe.
If you are interested in the time of the rise of communism, historian Jan Kalous will offer a tour of Prague sites associated with Gottwald's putsch(February 1948). There is also a walk around Hradčany, focusing on the fate of Cardinal Tomášek and the Church in the 1970s and 1980s(František Tomášek and the Catholic Church during the normalisation period), guided by historian Jaroslav Šebek. Where was the seat of the State Security? With exaggeration: everywhere and nowhere. The walk entitled Prague in the Searchlight of the StB, which will remind you of the observation rooms and conspiracy apartments of the State Security, was prepared by historian Prokop Tomek. A walk in the footsteps of Jan Palach is also planned.
The walks in the mobile phone app were prepared by the Museum of Memory of the XXth Century in cooperation with SmartGuide. The project was financially supported by the City of Prague. Prague.
