Galerie Rudolfinum, Contemporary art museum in Prague, Czech Republic.
Galerie Rudolfinum is a kunsthalle with no collection of its own, housed in the Neo-Renaissance Rudolfinum built in 1884 by Josef Zítek and Josef Schulz as a concert hall and gallery. It has 1,500 m² of exhibition halls, the Artpark education space, a cinema, a design shop and a café, all reached by step-free access.
The Rudolfinum was built in 1884 as a concert hall and gallery, designed by Josef Zítek and Josef Schulz, the architects of the National Theatre. Galerie Rudolfinum was established on 1 January 1994 as a state institution; from 2010 to 2011 it was attached to the Museum of Decorative Arts, and since 2012 it has been part of the Czech Philharmonic.
The gallery is named after the Rudolfinum building, itself named for Crown Prince Rudolf, not Emperor Rudolf II. Since 1994 it has run as a kunsthalle without its own collection, and by 2023 it had staged 120 exhibitions with 1,061 artists and over 1,650,000 visitors.
The gallery occupies 1,500 m² of exhibition halls in the Rudolfinum, with step-free access to the building and all gallery spaces. It also holds the Artpark education room, a cinema, a design shop and a café. The entrance is on Jan Palach Square (náměstí Jana Palacha) in the Old Town, near the decorative arts museum and Charles University's Faculty of Arts.
The gallery follows a non-collecting policy, displaying only temporary exhibitions, which sets it apart from many traditional museums. This approach allows it to constantly present new artistic perspectives and experimental work.
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