brewery museum

The history of beer making in Pilsen presented in objects, models and pictures. Several exhibits have signs explaining what they are, but sometimes the English was difficult to understand (in a few cases direly mistranslated ... fortunately, I understand Czech). I wish they had audio guides available, it would make the experience much more enriching for younger visitors as well.

The museum is small but nice. Basically tells the story of production and consumption of beer, especially in Plzen. Brings old and reproductions objects. You can also visit some underground tunnels of the city (closed in winter). Also, when buying tickets, you get a "voucher" that entitles you to one glass of beer in some pubs and restaurants in town.

Not much info in written history, suggest the audio guide might deliver the wow factor. Neat and free beer voucher made it even better. You can ask for dark beer when you claim voucher, don't just have to get a yellow pils. Underground was closed in FEB even though info on web made it seem open.

Urquell brewery offers a 110 minute English guided tour. Our guide was extremely efficient, so the tour was done in 80 minutes. To achieve this, she talked and walked fast, and left almost no time for questions. It was interesting to see how beer is made. Multimedia tour with cinema and interactive museum, also included an overview over the package area and the old brewery. A small taste of unfiltered beer was also included. Quite nice experience.

Throughout the various rooms you find various machinery of how traditional beer was produced, followed by a variety of cups and mugs and a 19th century bar setting. Included with the tour are tickets for beer sampling 1 330ml beer from 4 various restaurants

Lots to see here and plenty to get lost in. We got the the booklet, but I think the audio tour would have saved a lot of time. Lots of reading and objects to see.

Tour was really nice. Apparently it ends with beer tasting of non filtered and non pasteurized Pilsner. Worth visiting :-)

The reviews below are misleading ! They are talking about the Pilsen Urquell brewery tour, NOT the Brewery museum.I read the reviews and went to the brewery museum first, because the reviews were very good. Big mistake !The brewery museum is ok, but don't spent too much time on it. The Pilsen Urquell brewery tour is very good, and by the end of the tour they will serve you unfiltered beer from the barrel!!!!

Beer, food and people. In this Museum Brewery you can drink and eat very good talking with frinds, watching soccer games and have a good time with your friends.

Very nice, but not as exciting as the big name breweries that are around in other areas. Nice gift shop, with courteous help. I am not a beer drinker but it was a nice tour.

Far more interesting is making a tour in the Pilsner Urquell Brewery. Very recommendable. You cannot leave Plzen without visiting this world famous brewery.

This tour will not let you down. First you are going inside the newest factory premises were tons of beer are produced in front of your eyes and then you continue to huge boiling copper tanks, an underground maze with barrels filled with fresh beer and a comprehensive presentation of the beer history and so many other...We will probably visit it again if we get a chance...

If you find yourself in Pilsen (as I did, while taking a TEFL-certification course), you won't find a heck of a lot to do, that can't be done in other parts of the CR or Central Europe in general. That's certainly part if this town's charm: it's not unique enough to be an overwrought, self-caricature like Prague can be, at times, and never, ever crowded. The Brewery museum, especially the subterranean caverns, is one of the star attractions of--and probably the main association that most people outside of the country have with the town. And oh crap, it's delicious beer they make down there. I didn't quite understand that until my month-long stay here, but this beer is the reason why anyone ever drank pilsener styled beer to begin with. The stuff back home tends to lose all of its glory, likely in the export process, and tastes more like bitter-sweet skunk pee, and most non-Česky pilseners...pale (I'm sorry, really, but I had to do that) in comparison. And most of them aren't brewed in medieval subterranean caves, which your tour will take you down into. But the most memorable part? The unfiltered, special wooden vat of beer that you get to taste (yes, in a subterranean medieval cellar) is delicious and never to be had elsewhere. And it goes great with a great hunk of pork leg, as can be found in the adjacent restaurant. I'm thirsty.

Covers a lot of ground in the history of beer making. Good displays and many are in English. Check out the bottling and capping equipment that they developed starting in the mid 1800s.

We were having a hard time deciding where to go, when me and my girlfriend were in Pilsen. We went to this museum, because it is high on the list here and kind of symbolic for the city. When we got there, we were told that the next and only tour with the guide is after hour and half waiting, so we went without the guide. That was obviously bad choice, because none of the exhibits had any information panels or anything like it. We just walked through three rooms with random stuff, which we learned nothing about. The tour took us about 15 minutes, so we did not waste much time, but the fee was too high for this. I do not know, why the museum is so high ranked, much more interesting is visiting the brewery itself.