National Museum of Agriculture

This guide to the National Museum of Agriculture in Prague opens on the fifth of September nineteen thirty-nine, as movers were still unpacking crates of plows into a brand-new hall when German soldiers arrived and requisitioned the building days after the invasion of Poland. It follows the collection's exile in a garden pavilion and a barn, a brief return after nineteen forty-five, and a second seizure in nineteen fifty by a communist planning office. Look at the tractors and beehives around you, gathered in a building that spent decades belonging to everyone except the museum it was built for.