Prague is constantly evolving: sights are being renovated, new buildings are being constructed, and new businesses are opening. I have prepared a list of new and reopened important places and things in Prague that you can add to your bucket list.
What to expect in 2025?
Sights, museums, things to do
- Karel Gott’s museum will open in Villa Gott at Bertramka
- The Petřín cable car will be rebuilt and will have new carriages
- The Prague Planetarium will reopen after renovation
- A new organ in St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle will be installed
- Museum of Memory of the 20th Century at Dům pážat pánů z Martinic will open
- Savarin Palace will reopen
- The repair of the Church of the Infant Jesus surroundings will be finalized
- The Museum of Prague will be renovated and reopened
- Hydropolis in the Vinohrady water tower will open
Restaurants and businesses
- Restaurant Zlatá Praha will be renovated and reopened
What is already new in Prague in 2025?
Sights, museums, things to do
- Giants’ Gate with Wrestling Titans at Prague Castle was reopened in January
- Alfons Mucha`s (Art Nouveau painter) museum opened at Savarin Palace
What’s new in Prague in 2024?
Sights, museums, things to do
- The Statue of Franz Kafka’s gigantic head on Národní třída was renovated and reopened
- The paternoster elevator in the Municipality building in Prague was reopened for public as part of a paid guided tour
- Huge Butterflies of David Černý was installed on the Máj Národní Shopping Center
- The multifunctional centre Station 6 will be opened in August (Former railway station Prague-Bubeneč)
- The installation at the Bedřich Smetana Museum in Prague has been updated with new items
- Letná pond was built
Restaurants and businesses
- Máj Národní Shopping Center was reopened
What was new in Prague in 2023?
Sights, museums, things to do
- The Royal Garden of Prague Castle opened
- The new bridge HolKa opened
- Shared electric scooters are now under better control by the city and work significantly better
- The Prague Castle Picture Gallery reopened
- Security checks at Prague Castle have ended
- St. Vitus Cathedral’s free zones are closed due to the new organ installation. Paid tours are open
- New Spirála – A multi-genre cultural space with a rotating circular stage opened
Restaurants and businesses
- 420 restaurant opened
- Golden Prague Hotel (former Hotel Intercontinental) reopened
- Fast food Popeyes on Wenceslas Square opened
- Restaurant Vikárka at Prague Castle opened
- Pilsner Urquell: The Original Beer Experience in Prague opened
- Restaurant Alma opened
- Restaurant Marie B. opened
- Restaurant Burgerman opened
What was new in Prague in 2022?
Sights, museums, things to do
- Prague Visitor Pass introduced
- Army museum Žižkov reopened
- Deer Moat at Prague Castle fully opened
- Lilith on the Fragment building in Karlín opened
- New gorilla house (Reservation Dja) in Prague ZOO opened
- Villa Bílek reopened
- Straka Academy Garden opened
- Lennon Wall repainted
- Kunsthalle Prague – Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art
- ČNB (Czech National Bank) visitor centre opened
- Gallery Lumia – Interactive exhibition of digital art opened
- Clam-Gallas palace opened
- Prague Museum of Meissen porcelain opened
- Museum of Czech literature in Petschek Villa opened
- Historical carousel on Letná opened
- Salm Palace – National Gallery – Japanese paintings
- Multifunctional Park Jammertal under the Nusle Bridge
Restaurants and businesses
- Hyatt Andaz hotel opened
- Hotel W Prague by Marriott opened (former Grand hotel Evropa)
- Buttefly house Papilonia in Prague reopened
- Primark on Wenceslav Square (opened 2021)