Where did the Vltava River flow in the time of our great-great-grandmothers? When was Jižní Město established? How has Karlín changed since the Velvet Revolution — and what transformations has your own neighborhood undergone? Two Pragues was not a traditional exhibition, but a large-scale map installation presenting the development of the Czech capital over the past two centuries through historical plans and aerial photographs. Prague residents could thus easily discover what their own neighborhood looked like in the previous century or even the one before that. They explored sites bombed by American air raids in 1945 and traced the emergence of Prague’s housing estates as they spread across former fields and meadows during the 1970s.

The installation was accompanied by a public program, including the lecture The Development of Prague on Maps by architectural historian Martina Koukalová from the IPR Prague archive. The lecture offered insight into the creation of historical urban plans and aerial photographs while highlighting some of the places where Prague has undergone its most dramatic transformations.