The Czech National Heritage Museum in Prague has a centre for Building Heritage in Plasy in the refurbished brewery building on the campus of the old monastery.
I wonder if Simon and Elliott have been there?
there is a room devoted to each of the main aspects of building, and going back over the centuries on how it was done.
A demonstration of different types of brickwork; joining materials; I particularly liked the models of stairs – straight, bent, curved, spiral etc etc with explanations of the strength of each etc. Surfaces and renders; windows; doors; roofs; heating; water; electricity. And so on.
And as you go higher though the rooms and up to the mezzanine, it gets noisier. And there is the children’s room with tables for making designs (there is also a large ceramic and tile display which is separate for the building stuff), and a huge table of building blocks, and an interactive wall-size jigsaw puzzle of a medieval building scene. The kids were having a great time!
i had forgotten my camera so not many photos, but this one demonstrating different methods of filling a half-timber wall.
travellingkathy 
I don’t think the architects have been to Czech. They do know the old brewery buildings in Copenhagen. A few years ago they had playground equipment in the grounds.
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Reading from now to back. All seems to be going well now, car included. Did you have a Pilsner? Im not a beer drinker but sitting under one of those big umbrellas in a square on a hot day, a Pils was very refreshing!
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