New CAMP interactive exhibit allows you to explore Prague's 200-year development!

In the last 200 years, Prague has changed a lot. A new interactive exhibition called Two Pragues: Bird's Eye View City (Dvě Prahy: Město z ptačí perspektivy) at the Metropolitan and Architectural Planning Center (CAMP). The show uses aerial photographs and plans to show the capital's development over the past 2000 years.مواضيع نقاش

It runs until 29 March and is open to the public every day, except Monday, free from 9am to 9pm.

People can now explore their neighborhood in Prague at the beginning of the 19th century. The oldest map on display dates back to 1816 and the latest in 2019 so that visitors can easily see what they saw in the past or even a century ago.

Prague has grown over the last 200 years from 155,000 to 1,309,000 and from 800 acres to 49,605 hectares. The population has more than doubled over the last 100 years alone. Maps from the early 19th century show significant differences in comparison to the latest maps showing the development of industrial suburbs such as Karlín, Smíchov, Libeř or the establishment of the industrial area of Malešice-Hostivař and various housing projects.

"Every citizen of Prague may look for a street or an attraction at the exhibition. They only have to sit at our station with a keyboard and mouse, select a particular location and period and compare them to a different era of history. All of these can be seen in overlapping layers of two maps on a 25-foot panoramic wall. At the same time, the screens will show other map applications currently being developed by the Prague Planning Institute (IPR Praha)," said Ondřej Boháč, IPR Praha's director.

The site of bombing, which hit more than 2,500 households of Prague including Palackého most, Palackého náměstí, Karlovo náměstí, and Vinohradská Street, can be explored by visitors as from 14 February 1945. By comparing the 1945 and 1975 maps, you can see how the city coped with the tragic situation.

People can also see Karlín's transformation. In addition to changing Rohanský ostrov's character, the maps indicate the shift of the Vltava river bed. "Paradoxically, the sleek Vltava trough now is perceived as immutable, as it always has been. However, by looking on the ancient maps, we can see clearly how the river was wild in the past and how much the riverbed was regulated later. You can also see how land parts of individual districts, for instance between Holešovice and Karlín, have changed," said architectural historian Martina Koukalová from Praha IPR.

The development of the city is evident by the growth of housing properties in the 1970s. Visitors can walk through the picturesque village of Jižní Město via post-war maps, or watch the future of the southwest of the city and the Barrandov housing project awaken.

The main mission of the CAMP is to improve the public debate on Prague's development. It is intended as a source of clear and accessible information for all those interested in the joint planning and development of Prague on the present and future of Capital. The CAMP also has a large-screen projection screen exhibition hall, study room, a café, an outdoor patio and a public lecture hall,