National Gallery in Prague - Trade Fair Palace
The Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery Prague is the museum’s largest site for modern art, a standout not because of its collection alone but because the building itself is a landmark of functionalist architecture, begun in 1925 and later refurbished to house 19th- and 20th-century art. Founded on February 5, 1796, the National Gallery Prague—Národní galerie Praha—emerged from a group of Bohemian aristocrats and intellectuals who formed the Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts to elevate local taste; it later became the central collection for Czechoslovakia in 1918. The gallery operates as a state-owned institution that manages the Czech Republic’s largest art collection, exhibited across several historic sites, with the Trade Fair Palace hosting a core body of modern works. …
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