Following her husband's death, in 1840 Langweil's widow offered the model to Emperor and King Ferdinand to buy. The Emperor bought the model for a symbolic price and generously donated it to the Patriotic (now the National) Museum in Prague. The model was then put on display for the first time since Langweil's death in 1862 in Prague's Old Town Hall. In the years that followed, the model was exhibited by the museum only occasionally. It was exhibited for a longer period during the Prague Jubilee Exhibition and later it became part of the National Museum Lapidary exhibition.