National Gallery Prague, Modern art museum in Prague, Czech Republic
The National Gallery Prague is a modern art museum in Prague, Czech Republic, housed in a Functionalist building with eight floors filled with paintings, sculptures and other works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The rooms spread across several levels with galleries of varying size, where visitors can walk through collections of European and Czech artists.
The building was constructed between 1925 and 1928 as a venue for trade fairs and large exhibitions of industrial products. A fire in 1974 led to its closure and later transformation into an exhibition space for the art collection.
The name Trade Fair Palace recalls its original purpose as a commercial building, now transformed into a space where visitors walk through halls filled with paintings and sculptures from two centuries. The rooms display artworks from France, Germany and other European countries alongside Czech artists, offering the public a journey through colors and forms from different eras.
The museum opens from Tuesday to Sunday between ten in the morning and six in the evening, with Monday closed. The galleries spread across multiple floors, so visitors should plan enough time to explore the collection at a comfortable pace.
The southern exhibition hall reaches a height of about 15 meters (49 feet), a remnant of the original design intended for large machinery and heavy industrial goods. Today this open space provides paintings and sculptures with a wide setting and natural light from above.
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