Smetana Museum

Classical music aficionados should visit this tiny museum right on the river (near the Four Seasons) that has a small but excellent exhibit about Czech composer Bedricha Smetana. In a back corner, visitors can play different pieces of music by the composer who lost his hearing at the end of his life but continued writing operas, symphonies and chamber music. One of his most famous pieces is, of course, Vltava (The Moldau), which is particularly moving to listen to here, since the river itself is rushing by outside. The museum is hidden: take a right after crossing the Charles Bridge, then your first right into a small street leading to the river. The museum is on the first floor of a beautifully restored, former Waterworks building.