The collection is composed of archival documents and three- dimensional exhibits dated back to 1850-1950. The field of civil engineering is represented by plans of historical roof trusses, steel halls and other structures, road construction is represented by road maps, aerial photographs of roads, designs of Empire roads of the Kingdom of Bohemia, photographs from construction of roads and from granite quarry, prospectuses and education texts.
The archive file Bridges contains competition designs from competition of Prague bridges (drawings, plans, photographs, calculations and documents to wooden, chain, steel, stone and ferro-concrete bridges of Czech and Austrian-Hungarian provenance, as well as bridges in Paris, London and America). One of precious exhibits is the design of the first chain bridge on European continent from 1824 by Bed²ich Schnirch and plans and photographs of bridges not existing at present. The collection contains also photographic albums and documents of natural disasters, a set of models of roof trusses of usual as well as remarkable buildings, models of roof trusses of towers and examples of joiner's works in interiors (staircases, windows, doors). The samples of building materials were directly provided by producers. Worth particular attention is a collection of mechanical aids for calculation of building structures. Road construction is represented by a plastic map of the motorway, models of tunnels, cross- overs, road slopes, etc., bridge construction by models of bridges, their details and auxiliary structures.