Muzeum Obchodu

I came here and didn’t quite understand what it was. We thought it was a store that sold vintage beer signs and souvenirs, based on the display window facing the street, but turns out it just a place that displays them… and other vintage housewares. You know, like a real museum.
I know the sign says ‘Muzeum’, but you’d be surprised at how many places we walked in that weren’t what their sign. Delis that were cafes. Apartments that were hotels. Trains that said they were going to specific destination at a specific time but then just decided they weren’t going to anymore and that you can just shove your travel plans up your ass. Welcome to the Czech Republic… where nothing is as it seems.
The place is small for the size that you’d expect a museum to be, but it’s free and I cant’ argue with that. If it’s free, it’s probably for me.
Inside the layout is long, rectangular, and divided into 2 or 3 different open rooms, all displaying different vintage wares. One room had old, empty liquor bottles, the front is largely old beer signs, there was a display case with lots of different old-​timey scales, lots of old type-​writers, and quite a few retail furnishings from back in the day. There were a number of what would be considered racially insensitive signs advertising coconuts… or at least that’s what we roughly translated it to, but I think because they’re for historical purposes in a museum and obviously not the crown jewel of any display, that it’s alright in a – ‘whoa, I can’t believe anyone ever thought was okay.’ sort of way.
In the end, the place is free and the guy who runs the place is nice and smile-​y. It’s not a destination spot, and if you miss heading here it won’t break your day, but it’s a fine place to spend 3 – 7 minutes, and that’s literally all the time you need to see everything.