Franz Kafka Museum

The Franz Kafka Museum is a museum located in Prague dedicated to the author Franz Kafka. The museum hosts a number of first edition Kafka books as well as displays original letters, diaries and drawings created by Kafka. The Franz Kafka Museum opened in the summer of 2005 on the Lesser-Town bank of the Vltava River. The exhibition consists of two sections – Existential Space and Imaginary Topography. Franz Kafka was born in Prague on 3 July 1883, died in a sanatorium in Kierling on 3 June 1924, and was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague – Strašnice on 11 June.