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Prague, chosen as a European City of Culture for 2000, continues to live up to its name as new museums and cultural venues spring up around the city. One museum, which opened earlier this year, is geared mainly toward attracting the very young. Located in one of Prague's most famous buildings - the House of the Green Frog is the Museum of Children's Drawings and it is here you'll find not only children's drawings but also numerous sculptures and toys. It was truly only out of curiosity, as frankly I really wasn't expecting very much, that I stopped by and bumped into the Museum's director, Darina Martinovska. Mrs. Martinovska explained what it was that brought about the opening of the museum and what kind of message it hoped to pass on to its visitors:

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Among topics covered in this week's edition of the arts, takes a look at the Roma music of Vera Bila and her group, Kale.

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In this week's edition of the arts, takes a look at the 10th annual Vienna-Czech Festival, which celebrates the Czech composer Leos Janacek.

In this week's program, takes us to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

takes you to a course of Israeli folk dancing held in Sec, East Bohemia and discusses the popularity of Israeli folk dances in the Czech Republic and other parts of the world with Czech, British, German, Rumanian and other participants. In countries with rich folklore and numerous folk dances of their own, why is there such interest in the newly created dances of a foreign country?

In this week's edition of the Arts, explores the world of modern dance.

In this week's edition of the Arts, discovers artists carving sculptures out of oak tree trunks... speaks with the chief editor of Czech Radio's foreign desk, Miroslav Konvalina and his wife Marketa, who are displaying the results of some five years of travelling to countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America... and explores Brno's G-studio theatre, which offers shortened versions of classic Broadway musicals -- July already is sold out.

In this week's edition of the Arts, tells us about two groups that couldn't differ more in character but have managed to equally take Prague by storm this month.