Take a walk through the famous Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital and towards its historic abandoned graveyard, where you will be introduced to the intense and at times dark history of the field of psychiatry. Your guide will lead you through a maze of buildings rich in both history and controversy from an antient times to present day. Be prepared to enter a whole new different world stained with torturous and deadly treatments inflicted on the most unfortunate patients who occupied these wards for centuries. Learn of the torments of 19th and 20th century psychiatric treatments and the agonizing lives of the hospital’s inmates. And at last we will lead you on a path to the cemetery where in seemingly calm fellowship many souls lay at rest; history tells of a different story.
Take a walk through the famous Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital. Visit its historic abandoned graveyard. Discover the intense and at times dark history of psychiatry
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
The tour begins in front of the gate to the Psychiatric Hospital in Bohnice, Ústavní 91, 18100 Prague 8, Czechia.