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200 Korun National Technical Museum
| Issuer | Czech National Bank |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 200 Korun |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded or plain, lettered |
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The National Technical Museum in Prague, founded in 1908, was established as part of a deliberate push by Czech civic institutions to assert industrial and scientific identity within the Austro-Hungarian framework — a century before this coin was struck to mark the anniversary. The museum's collections were built largely through private donations and corporate transfers, making it an unusual hybrid of state ambition and bourgeois patronage from its earliest years.
The 2008 issue coincided with the museum's closure for a major reconstruction that would last until 2013, a detail that gives the commemorative an inadvertently elegiac timing.