Transport

The Department of Transport of the National Technical Museum is the largest exhibition in the Museum. The large hall of the floor area 1750 m² has around its circumference three galleries, the ceiling structure makes it possible to hang aeroplanes.
The exhibition on the ground floor shows 13 railway carriages, more than thirty automobiles, two aeroplanes and a collection of plane engines.
From eight displayed steam locomotives, the greatest attention is paid to the half-tender steam locomotive I.103 Kladno from 1855, the tender-type XIVe and the four-wheel steam carriage M124.001 from 1903. Two saloon carriages are also displayed one of which AZA 1-0083 from 1891 was used in the court saloon train of the Emperor Franz Joseph I.
The displayed collection of automobiles shows the history of the domestic car production on the background of worldwide development. The collection includes, for instance, the first automobile to be driven on the territory of the Czech Republic - Benz Viktoria from 1893, the first automobile made in Bohemia and Moravia - NW President from 1898, the first Czech racing car - NW-12 HP from 1990 or probably the most luxury car of the domestic automobile history - the twelve-cylinder Tatra 80 of the president Masaryk from 1935. The exposition introduces mainly the production of domestic car factories, both the historically most important - Tatra, Skoda and Praga, and today completely forgotten marks. The part of collection presenting foreign production includes also several notable automobiles, such as the oldest existing car from the Molsheim factory of E. Bugatti - Bugatti 13 from 1910 or the racing monopost Mercedes Benz W154/M163 of Rudolf Caracciola from 1938. Most of the displayed automobiles were made before the World War II. The first gallery shows over 30 motorcycles of domestic as well as foreign production and a large collection of railway models. The collection of thirty bicycles on the second gallery documents the development of cycling since the first half of the 19th century. A part of the second gallery is devoted to the history of shipping transport represented by ship models. A large collection of aeroplane models on the third gallery elucidates the history of aeronautics.
Hanged in the free space are aeroplanes the exposition of which presents 17 pieces. The most precious plane of the collection is Bleriot XI from 1910 on which Ing. Kaspar made the first long-distance flight in the history of Czech aeronautics. The connoisseurs will enjoy three remarkable military planes from the World War I, the only pieces of its kind preserved all round the world. These are single-engine biplanes - Russian Anatra Anasalj, American LWF Tractor and Austrian Knoller CII. An extraordinary stylistic elegance reveals the courier single-engine monoplane Zlin Z-XIII from 1937.