Franz Josef Hotel, "Attack of the Hawkmen"

Post date: Jun 29, 2010 6:36:14 PM

Not too many new discoveries have been made lately, as I've just been working on the huge list of M.I.A. locations. If anything I've come to realize I need help - bad! This is just one monumental task to do alone from my home computer. While browsing some screenshots, I ran across one that's been eluding me for a while - the "Franz Josef Hotel" in Attack of the Hawkmen, where Indy meets his contact and has a failed attempt at talking to Fokker. I thought this time I'd give you an idea of my location-hunting process to show the level of sadness involved here (I know, I need help)...

I had a real good feeling it was in Prague somewhere, as it has that architecture and since most of these types of locales seem to have been shot there. Still, with no surrounding landmarks it's like finding a needle in a haystack!

I noticed a small detail in this photo:

Can you make out what that says? Pretty tough, huh? Something "Museum."

Now I don't know Czech so I began typing every possible combination of letters into Google, until finally the spell-check corrected me with "Naprstkovo Muzeum." I checked the address in Google Street View, and sure enough - there it was!

It's actually the:

Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures

Bethlehem Square 1, 110 Prague 1