 The museum also manages substantial archives consisting of approximately 3,500 linear shelf meters of archival material and about 250,000 books.The museum was founded in 1908 and has been in its current location (adjacent to Letná Park) since 1941.The collections originate from the professional engineering school (founded in 1717 in Prague), continued by the Prague Polytechnical Institute (founded in 1806) and finally the opening of the Czech industrial museum, founded by Vojtěch Náprstek in 1874.