Personal Report:
Visiting the Jawa Museum was on my bucket list for many years as I've spent most of my life around Jawa and Yezdi bikes, I finally got an opportunity to see the Jawa Museum on the outskirts of Prague in June of 2018. The place is small yet has a wide collection of rare Jawa and CZ bikes that rolled out of the plant since 1929.
Where is it: Museum Jawa Konopiště
Konopiště 30, 256 01 Benešov u P, Czechia
How to get there:
This museum is about 45 kms from Prague and the fastest way to get there is by train or private car. Take a train from Prague main station to Benešov u Prahy which is a small sleepy town. You will have to take a local bus No. 455 to Konopiste (2.5kms) from opposite the train station for 12 Czech Krona. Since the bus schedules are not very frequent, you might want to take a local cab to save time. You can also take the road train shuttle which runs across many points in the city and drops you off near the Konopiste Castle for 20 Czech Korna.
The museum is part of a Pension (Hotel) and the entrance is through it. Entry fee to the museum is 100 Krona. I started at 9am from Prague station and was back in the city by 2.15pm considering the trains run at 30 - 45 min intervals and take about an hour to reach Benesov.
Museum:
The museum building is set on the opposite side of Konopiste Castle within a hotel. After finding you way thru, you feel like a kid in a candy store once you enter this room with bikes of all kinds stacked in two levels along with rare posters and banners adorning all other empty spaces. They are so tightly packed that you cannot even get a clear picture of them. Since I was one among the four other visitors there, I had all the time in the world to go thru their rare collection.
I've uploaded almost all pictures that i've taken from there in our BJYMC Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1788907331200844.1073741833.319665838125008&type=1&l=0fa78c01a5
The museum also has some brochures, fridge magnets, postcards, tshirts and caps for sale to generate some revenue to help in maintaining the place. If you are a Jawa fan and happen to visit Czech, then sparing half a day for this visit isn't a bad idea.
Visiting the Jawa Museum was on my bucket list for many years as I've spent most of my life around Jawa and Yezdi bikes, I finally got an opportunity to see the Jawa Museum on the outskirts of Prague in June of 2018. The place is small yet has a wide collection of rare Jawa and CZ bikes that rolled out of the plant since 1929.
Where is it: Museum Jawa Konopiště
Konopiště 30, 256 01 Benešov u P, Czechia
How to get there:
This museum is about 45 kms from Prague and the fastest way to get there is by train or private car. Take a train from Prague main station to Benešov u Prahy which is a small sleepy town. You will have to take a local bus No. 455 to Konopiste (2.5kms) from opposite the train station for 12 Czech Krona. Since the bus schedules are not very frequent, you might want to take a local cab to save time. You can also take the road train shuttle which runs across many points in the city and drops you off near the Konopiste Castle for 20 Czech Korna.
The museum is part of a Pension (Hotel) and the entrance is through it. Entry fee to the museum is 100 Krona. I started at 9am from Prague station and was back in the city by 2.15pm considering the trains run at 30 - 45 min intervals and take about an hour to reach Benesov.
Museum:
The museum building is set on the opposite side of Konopiste Castle within a hotel. After finding you way thru, you feel like a kid in a candy store once you enter this room with bikes of all kinds stacked in two levels along with rare posters and banners adorning all other empty spaces. They are so tightly packed that you cannot even get a clear picture of them. Since I was one among the four other visitors there, I had all the time in the world to go thru their rare collection.
I've uploaded almost all pictures that i've taken from there in our BJYMC Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1788907331200844.1073741833.319665838125008&type=1&l=0fa78c01a5
The museum also has some brochures, fridge magnets, postcards, tshirts and caps for sale to generate some revenue to help in maintaining the place. If you are a Jawa fan and happen to visit Czech, then sparing half a day for this visit isn't a bad idea.
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