The Moldavite Museum on Panska street pairs displays about vltavin, the bottle-green natural glass thrown out by an asteroid impact around 15 million years ago, with a shop of jewellery set with the stone. Alongside the Cesky Krumlov museum it runs a moldavite mining experience and an e-shop, with smaller shop counters in Ceske Budejovice and Prague.
Best for Moldavite (vltavin) jewellery and gemstone displays
Granát, d.u.v. Turnov has crafted Bohemian garnet jewelry for more than 70 years, and its Prague company store on Dlouhá Street sells rings, necklaces, and gift items alongside a full e-shop. The cooperative guarantees the origin of every stone and still relies heavily on the handwork of Turnov goldsmiths.
Operating from a factory store in Prague's Old Town near the Astronomical Clock and Charles Bridge, the shop sells Czech garnet and moldavite jewelry set in silver, gold and diamonds across more than 3,000 models. It also offers Czech crystal, custom jewelry design, repair, restoration and cleaning, with certificates for metal purity and gemstone authenticity.
A long-running Czech jewelry house and workshop producing authorial gold and silver pieces and bespoke commissions. The current Prague studio receives visitors by appointment; the house dates its jewelry tradition to 1915.
Best for Authorial gold and silver jewelry and bespoke commissions at a Prague studio dating to 1915
Belda's origins lie not in Prague but in New York. In 1915, twenty-one-year-old Ladislav Belda, from the glass-bead region around Jablonec nad Nisou, emigrated to Manhattan and founded Czechoslovak Beads & Co., producing hand-made glass beads. He returned to Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and established a jewelry and glass-pearl manufacturing base in Turnov that remains the company's production hub today.
The business has passed through four generations of the same family: from Ladislav to his son Jiří Belda Sr., then to grandson Jiří Belda Jr., who has led the bulk of the hands-on design work in recent decades, and now to great-granddaughter Viktorie Beldová. Rather than working in isolation, Belda has repeatedly commissioned outside designers to reinterpret its jewelry, collaborating with architect Eva Jiřičná, designer Maxim Velčovský, artist David Černý, and the Vrtiška & Žák studio on a menswear-oriented collection. For its 2015 centenary, the house released the "Český Ráj" ("Bohemian Paradise") collection, drawing on motifs and stones associated with that region, which earned a Czech Grand Design Award nomination.
Alongside its Turnov manufacturing base, Belda maintains a Prague presence, including a studio in Bubeneč that receives visitors by appointment, continuing a hand-craft tradition now in its second century.
Located at Zamecka 167 in Kutna Hora, the gallery sells jewelry set with Czech garnet and moldavite, including rings, earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, brooches and watches, made by Czech goldsmiths and cutters. The showroom is open seven days a week and the shop offers free delivery on orders over 3,000 CZK.
The Czech shop sells glass beads and jewelry components including recycled glass beads, fire-polished beads from 2 to 20mm, pressed glass shapes such as coins, daggers, flowers, stars and skulls, and two-hole beads under the WIBEDUO, VEXOLO, DIAMONDUO and ZOLIDUO names. It also stocks seed beads from MIYUKI Delica, TOHO and Preciosa alongside letter beads and bead mixes.