National Gallery Prague
Prague · Czech Republic · Founded 1796
Central Europe's oldest and largest art collection — Czech and international art from Gothic to contemporary, spread across seven historic Prague venues including the Trade Fair Palace.
About National Gallery Prague
The National Gallery in Prague was founded in 1796 by Czech patriotic nobility as the first public picture gallery in the Habsburg Empire — predating the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna by nearly a century. Today it operates across seven historic buildings in Prague, with the Veletržní palác (Trade Fair Palace) serving as the primary venue for its modern and contemporary art collections.
The collections span seven centuries of European and Bohemian art: Gothic altarpieces, Baroque masterpieces (Cranach, Rubens, Rembrandt), and an exceptional holding of 20th-century Czech art. The modern art collection at Veletržní palác includes significant Picasso, Klimt, Schiele, Dalí, and Kokoschka, alongside the most comprehensive survey of Czech Cubism — a uniquely Czech contribution to early modernism — available anywhere.
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