Six sites administered as one, sold on one ticket, and closed on the day most visitors have free.
What it costs
The Jewish Museum in Prague is not a single building. It is a set of synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery, and they are sold together on one ticket rather than individually.
The Old-New Synagogue — the oldest active synagogue in Europe — is administered separately and ticketed separately, though combined tickets exist. Buying the museum ticket alone does not get you into it.
When to go
Closed on Saturdays and on Jewish holidays. This is the single most common wasted journey in the centre of Prague, because Saturday is exactly when visitors have a free day. Check the calendar before you plan around it.
Getting there
Metro A to Staroměstská. The quarter is a few minutes north of Old Town Square and is small enough to walk in an afternoon.
If you only have an hour
An hour is not enough for the full ticket, and rushing the cemetery is the wrong way to see it. If that is all you have, walk the streets — Maiselova and Široká — and look at the exteriors, then come back on a day that is not a Saturday with three hours and the museum ticket.
What people get wrong
The cemetery is the part people are unprepared for: burials were confined to one plot for centuries, so graves are stacked in layers and the stones lean into each other. It is not a picturesque ruin. The Pinkas Synagogue carries the names of Bohemian and Moravian Jews murdered in the Holocaust, written on the walls.
Nearby
Ticketing arrangements and opening patterns as published for 2026 and checked on 4 September 2026. These change without much warning — confirm with the site itself before you travel. More sights, and how they fit together, in Landmarks & Sights.