Brewery or museum? The ages old question asked by sensible…read moretourists while planning travel itineraries. This place is a mixture of both... sort of. It's a beer museum! :) (Yay!!!) ... that doesn't serve beer. :( (womp, womp.) But it's actually still pretty cool... probably better if you can read the native language, though... but we still had fun. If you're really into brewing, you could spend 1.5-2 hours here perusing the many levels easy. If you're just there for the heck of it, 45 minutes it's probably good. Things to know: // It's not free, admission runs about the cost of what a movie would cost you. A fair price, I'd say. // It's more historic than novelty. // Not at all hipster-y like you'd expect. // It's set up kind of like a multi-level labyrinth with ups and downs at every wall so going through is never boring. // They have a whole big area at the end that's a children's playground with some beer-themed play things. Teachin' 'em young. Awesome. // SOME of the figures are animatronic and some are not. They bait you by showing you a bunch of mannequins that don't move, then BAM, you walk into a quiet room and all these robots start canoodling and making noises and drinking beer and it WILL scare the sh*t out of you, but once your heart stops beating out of your chest and your friends stop laughing at you, you'll appreciate the humor of it. // Has a lot of info about the town, the Czech Republic, and Europe in general, so even if you don't care about beer, you can enjoy the historic portions of the museum. // It's attached to a bar, so you can go get your booze fix after, should you so desire.

Apparently since the medieval times Plzen had an elaborate set of underground passages, sometimes…read moreforming three overlapping levels in depth. The passages were dug mostly for storage, although water control and siege protection also played some part. A small part of these passages has been restored, even smaller part is currently accessible for organized tours with a tour guide, departing approximately once per hour. Tours are mostly in Czech; these can be used by non-Czech-speakers via the use of audioguides; few time a day the tours are held in English, German, and Russian. The cost of the tour is approximately $10, this includes a coupon for free (small) beer in the nearby restaurant. Expect walking for about 1 km in a hardhat provided by the tour, in temperatures reaching 55F, on occasionally wet - but not flooded - floors. The tunnels themselves are quite interesting due to their elaborate structure; the museum placed some artifacts into the niches previously used for the storage, so one would also learn a bit about the Plzen's history. Definitely worth visiting if you are in Plzen for some other reason.

Translates to 'Museum of Horrors' but it's not exactly a museum, nor horrific... more like a…read morestorage unit for all the larger leftover holiday displays from Party City and any Halloween outlet store. It took us a hot minute to find this place as it's located within and underneath Hotel Central on the cafe side. There's some creepy stuff, but the museum is definitely meant for small children, not adults, as we'd originally thought. Lucky for my friend and I, the nice woman at the counter only charged us the children's admission enter, which I think it was around $4 each, which for what he saw was def a bit steep, but my friend and I got a few jokes out how we got duped into coming here thinking it would actually be something cool and not a tiny tourist trap for tiny humans. We took our sweet time and I still think we were in and out, having seen and played with everything, in under 8 minutes. There's a small gift shop with little knick-knacks of things you'd find at a dollar store. Little rubber finger puppet monsters, single candy packs, etc. We walked through the 'horrors' part of the museum which has kind of a compartmentalized haunted house, only the only the thing that's scary is that it's dark, they have a fog machine, and your glasses and camera lens will fog up as soon as you reach the pit of the stairs. Full of dressed-up novelty skeletons and a 'spooky-ish' animatronic camel that I still don't understand, but Czech isn't my native language, so perhaps something was lost in translation. The rest of the museum is like a grandmother's attic filled with little toys and models and a mini play house and little theater room with hand puppets and coloring sheets on toddler picnic tables. I guess we should have known it was for kids from the gift shop, but for whatever reason, it just didn't register and then we felt like pedos going through when there was a family in the playroom (looking miserable) with their kids. Now knowing that this place is meant for kids, I think a 3-star is still pretty fair. The dark foggy area seemed like it would be way too scary for little kids, and the rest of the museum wouldn't have been much of anything for anyone over the age of 4 to look at. If you're in the area and looking to terrify and/or shut your toddler up for 30-minutes to 45 minutes (if they latch onto the coloring pages) and willing to for over the $4-$8 admission per person, this is your place. Also, it's a stone's throw from the Plzen tower, so if other members of your party are doing that climb, this might be a just fine place to hide out with kids.

So you're chillaxin' in Bavaria on a very brisk, yet sunny Saturday afternoon and thinking to your…read moreself, "What should I do with myself today?" Then poof, the lightbulb not only comes on, but it explodes! I'll check out the Walhalla Museum that everyone has been raving about. Actually, there's a little hyperbole thrown in there. No one is raving about it. In fact, I think it's one of those awesome sites that are rarely mentioned. Which is just odd, because it's truly breathtaking! The views are amazing! The magnificence of the grand structure! All Roman Empire like reminiscent of a coliseum. It's seriously cool! Yes, there's an entrance fee to go inside, but if you just wanna soak up the view? Totally gratis! If you're in the area, you so wanna check this place out.

It's a great place to walk around or just to hang out with a blanket, food and drinks. Definitely…read moreworth the time to visit. You can use a boat and walk all the stairs or take a shortcut and walk just a few stairs.

Very interesting museum. Thousands of instruments most of which aren't in use today - like the…read moreworld's largest accordian.

This review is for the Museum…read more One of the worst tours I've been on. To be fair, I may have just gotten really unlucky with the tour I was on. They only offer one English tour per day, so on my tour, there was a large (40+) group of Korean tourists. It was clear that the guide was catering to that group, which is fine, but it was at the expense of all the other tourists. The "tour," if you can really call it that, consists of a couple of rooms with a little a bit of memorabilia from the company's history, as well as a bunch of wax replicas of various points in the company's history. If that had been the end, I would have chewed out the guide and asked for my money back, especially because she told us no more than a couple of plaques or a short Wikipedia article could have explained. But the end of the tour is the only redeeming aspect. You go into a tasting room, where they show a video while serving you samples of their products. The video was far more interesting than the guide, but unfortunately, the guide was talking during the video, teaching the large group "na stravi". So I actually heard very little of the video. The samples were the only good thing about the tour. They give you three samples (out of their five products), which were fun to try. However, the guide constantly stated, over the video of course, how the Ice and Fire was her favorite, but that we wouldn't be trying it. You only make us angry by telling us how we aren't even trying the best thing. The whole thing felt very rushed too, like they were trying to get us out of there before the next tour group arrived (which was exactly the case). The only good thing I can say is that I basically paid 120 CZK for three shots, which is a fair price. Though if you want to try the other two products, you have to pay for them separately. They should really just scrape the museum and start marketing it as a tasting room instead. It would have been much better to just enjoy trying a couple of samples rather than wasting an hour of my life.

From the owner: Dnešní Jan Becher Muzeum je přímo na místě bývalé továrny na Steinberkách, kde Becherovka více než…read moresto let pramenila. Původní továrnu, odkud likér putoval do celého světa, dal roku 1867 vystavět Jan Becher (původně psáno Johann). V návštěvnickém centru máte příležitost prohlédnout si historické láhve Becherovky a jedinečné předměty, které patřily rodině Becherů, jako je kniha receptů, ocenění z výstav či účetní knihy. Interaktivní část expozice Vám umožní prohlédnout si a nasát vůni bylinek a koření, ze kterých se Becherovka vyrábí, ochutnat karlovarskou vodu, která se používá k výrobě a pomocí VR brýlí se ocitnete přímo na stáčecí lince. Jan Becher Muzeum každoročně láká tisíce milovníků bylinného likéru, kteří podlehli kouzlu Becherovky a chtějí nahlédnout do její pestré, pozoruhodné a často pohnuté minulosti, do podnětné výroby i do tajemství, která ji obestírají. Degustace, exkurze. Becherovka je vynikající, tradiční a vysoce kvalitní bylinný likér. Tento oblíbený klasik mezi českými alkoholickými nápoji, který má místo při všech důležitých událostech vašeho života, je 100% přírodním produktem bez jakýchkoli chemických konzervačních látek, umělých barviv a emulgátorů. Becherovka se vyrábí z proslulé karlovarské vody, vysoce kvalitního lihu, přírodního cukru a velmi specifické a harmonické směsi bylinek a koření...