Pivovarské muzeum

Brewery or museum?
The ages old question asked by sensible tourists while planning travel itineraries.
This place is a mixture of both… sort of.
It’s a beer museum! :)
(Yay!!!)
… that doesn’t serve beer. :(
(womp, womp.)
But it’s actually still pretty cool… probably better if you can read the native language, though… but we still had fun.
If you’re really into brewing, you could spend 1.5−2 hours here perusing the many levels easy. If you’re just there for the heck of it, 45 minutes it’s probably good.
Things to know:
/​/​It’s not free, admission runs about the cost of what a movie would cost you. A fair price, I’d say.
/​/​It’s more historic than novelty.
/​/​Not at all hipster-​y like you’d expect.
/​/​It’s set up kind of like a multi-​level labyrinth with ups and downs at every wall so going through is never boring.
/​/​They have a whole big area at the end that’s a children’s playground with some beer-​themed play things. Teachin’ ‘em young. Awesome.
/​/​SOME of the figures are animatronic and some are not. They bait you by showing you a bunch of mannequins that don’t move, then BAM, you walk into a quiet room and all these robots start canoodling and making noises and drinking beer and it WILL scare the sh*t out of you, but once your heart stops beating out of your chest and your friends stop laughing at you, you’ll appreciate the humor of it.
/​/​Has a lot of info about the town, the Czech Republic, and Europe in general, so even if you don’t care about beer, you can enjoy the historic portions of the museum.
/​/​It’s attached to a bar, so you can go get your booze fix after, should you so desire.