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Prague Castle Picture Gallery (Prime paintings from the 16th to 18th century)
Expositions of the National Gallery:
– Schwarzenberg Palace (Sculptural exhibits, late Renaissance and Baroque paintings)
– Sternberg Palace (European art from ancient times to the end of Baroque)
– St. George’s Convent (Czech Baroque painting and Mannerism artists)
– Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia (Medieval and early Renaissance Czech art)
– Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – Trade Fair Palace
– House at the Black Madonna (Museum of Czech Cubism and Cubist applied arts)
– Zbraslav Chateau (Asian art – China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, Tibet)
– Kinský Palace (Landscape in Czech Art of the 17th–20th Centuries)
– Prague Castle Riding School (Biedermeier Arts in Bohemia, 1814–48)
– Wallenstein Gallery (Short-term exhibition)
Expositions of the City Gallery Prague
– Old Town Hall (Short-term exhibition)
– House at the Golden Ring (Czech art of the 20th century)
– Trója Chateau (Czech painting of the 19th century, Czech sculpture 1900-1970)
– The Bílek Villa (Czech art-nouveau symbolism sculptor František Bílek)
– House at the Stone Bell (Short-term exhibitions)
Strahov Picture Gallery (Gothic, Baroque, Rococo and 19th century paintings)
The Czech Museum of Fine Arts (Temporary exhibitions of 20th century Czech art )
Galerie Rudolfinum (Prestigious exhibition space for renowned international artists)
Gambra (Surrealist art)
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Prague Castle Picture Gallery
Admission free – every Monday from 4 pm to 6 pm
Description: The collection contains around 400 paintings from the 16th to 18th century.Those pictures on display provide a fair representation of the finest available works of art. For in spite of the country’s chequered history whereby the collection incurred considerable losses the quality of paintings on view can compare favourably with the most significant European art collections. A few works survive from the legendary collection of Rudolph II, but most were lost as spoils of war during the seventeenth century, moved to Vienna or sold – either to the Saxons or in the ‘Josephine’ auction of 1782.
Regarded as the most valuable paintings in the collection are Titian’s Toilet of a Young Lady, Tintoretto’s Flagellation of Christ and Rubens’s The Assembly of the Olympic Gods. There are other major works by artists including Hans von Aachen, Domenico Fetti, Bartolomeo Spranger, Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Bassano.
Address: 2nd Courtyard of Prague Castle, Prague 1
Phone: + 420 224 373 531
How to get there: Metro line A (to Staroměstská), then Tram 22,23 (to Pražský hrad)
Open: Summer season from 9 am to 6 pm / Winter season from 9 am to 4 pm
Admission: Full 150 Kč / Reduced 80 Kč / Family 200 Kč (Children up to 6 years admission free), free admission – every Monday from 4pm – 6pm
Prague Castle short route: The Prague Castle Picture Gallery is now also included in Prague Castle short route (see the official Prague Castle price list at www.hrad.cz for details).
Website: http://www.kulturanahrade.cz/en/prague-castle-picture-gallery/index.shtml
Expositions of the National Gallery (Národní galerie):
Website: www.ngprague.cz
Current opening times and fees: http://www.ngprague.cz/139/detail/entrance-fees/
Schwarzenberg Palace (Šwarzenberský palác)
Description: On the three floors of the reconstructed building of the palace, the new permanent exhibition presents about 160 sculptural exhibits and 280 pieces of late Renaissance and Baroque painting, created in the territory of the lands of the Crown of Bohemia from the late 16th to the end of the 18th centuries.
Address: Hradčanské náměstí (Square) 2, Prague 1
Phone: 233 081 713
How to get there: Metro line A (to Malostranská), Tram 22,23 (to Pražský hrad or Pohořelec)
Open: Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 150 Kč / reduced 80 Kč / family 200 Kč (from 4 pm – full 80 Kč / reduced 40 Kč / family 100 Kč)
Website: www.ngprague.cz/160/detail/schwarzenberg-palace/
Sternberg Palace (Šternberský Palác)
Description: European art from Classical era (Greece / Rome) the end of Baroque, with emphasis on the 14th-18th centuries. Located in a Baroque palace built between 1697 and 1707 for Count Wenceslas Adalbert of Sternberg according to a design by G. B. Alliprandi.
Address: Hradčanské náměstí 15, Prague 1
Phone: +420 233 090 570
How to get there: Tram: 22 or 23 (to Pražský hrad)
Open: Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 150 Kč / reduced 80 Kč / family 200 Kč (from 4 pm – full 80 Kč / reduced 40 / family 200 Kč)
Website: www.ngprague.cz/2/detail/sternberg-palace/
St. George’s Convent (Klášter sv. Jiří)
Description: Czech Baroque painting of the 17th and 18th century and Mannerism artists of the court of Rudolf II.
Address: Jiřské náměstí 33, Prague 1
Phone: +420 257 531 644
How to get there: Tram 22 or 23 (to Pražský hrad)
Open: Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 150 Kč / reduced 80 Kč / family 200 Kč (from 4 pm – full 80 Kč / reduced 40 Kč / family 200 Kč)
Website: www.ngprague.cz/3/detail/st-george-s-convent/
Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia (Klášter sv. Anežky české)
Description: The authentic interior of the first Czech monastery of the Clarisse order provides a wonderful setting for this permanent exhibition of Medieval and early Renaissance Czech and European art. At the end of 2004, the National Gallery launched a new project – an exhibition of casts of Czech medieval sculptures dating from the 13th to 15th centuries. The first convent for nuns of the order of St. Clare north of the Alps, founded around the year 1231 by St. Agnes of Bohemia, daughter of King Přemysl Otakar I. The building is one of the earliest examples of the penetration of the Cistercian-Burgundian Gothic style into Bohemia.
Address: U Milosrdných 17, Prague 1
Phone: +420 224 810 628
How to get there: Metro line A (to Staroměstská) or metro line B (to Náměstí Republiky)
Open: Tue – Sun 8 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 100 Kč / reduced 50 Kč / family 150 Kč (from 4 pm – full 80 Kč / reduced 40 Kč / family 200 Kč)
Website: www.ngprague.cz/4/detail/convent-of-st-agnes-of-bohemia/
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – Trade Fair Palace
(Veletržní palác – Muzeum moderního a současného umění)
Description: Art from the 19th century to present.
Address: Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7
Phone: +420 224 301 111
How to get there: Tram 5, 12 or 17 (to Veletržní) or metro line C (to Vltavská)
Open: Tue – Sun 8 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 200 Kč / reduced 100 Kč / family 300 Kč (from 4 pm – full 100 Kč / reduced 50 Kč / family 150 Kč)
Website: www.ngprague.cz/5/detail/veletrzni-palace/
House at the Black Madonna (Dům U Černé Matky Boží)
Description: Czech Cubism 1911 – 1919. A historic Cubist café, the Grand Café Orient, renovated and reopened in March 2005. The Museum has been placed in the newly renovated Black Madonna House in Celetná Street since 2003. This unique Cubist building, designed by Josef Gočár, was built in 1911–1912.
Address: Celetná 34, Prague 1
Phone: +420 224 211 746
How to get there: Metro line A/B (to Můstek)
Open: Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm,
Admission: Full 100 Kč / reduced 50 Kč / Family 150 Kč (from 4 pm – full 50 Kč / reduced 30 Kč / family 80 Kč)
Website: www.ngprague.cz/9/detail/house-at-the-black-madonna/
Zbraslav Chateau (Zámek Zbraslav)
Description: Asian art – China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, Near East. Zbraslav Chateau, originally a Cistercian monastery founded by Wenceslas II in 1292. The monastery and the church of Our Lady with its royal tombs were destroyed by the Hussites in 1420. The complex of buildings was completed by František Maxmilián Kaňka in 1732.
Address: Bartoňova 2, Prague 5-Zbraslav
Phone: +420 257 921 638–39
How to get there: Bus 129, 241, 243, 255 or 360 (from Smíchovské nádraží to Zbraslavské náměstí)
Open: Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 80 Kč / reduced 40 Kč / family 120 Kč (from 4 pm – full 40 Kč / reduced 20 Kč / family 60 Kč)
Website: www.ngprague.cz/7/detail/zbraslav-chateau/
Kinský Palace (Palác Kinských)
Description: Landscape in Czech Art of the 17th–20th Centuries. Kinsky Palace, built on the site of two medieval houses, is an example of late Baroque Classicism. It was built during the period 1755–1765 by A. Lurago according to an earlier design by K. I. Dientzenhofer.
Address: Staroměstské náměstí 12, Prague 1
Phone: 420 224 810 758
How to get there: Metro line A (to Staroměstská)
Open: 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 50 Kč / reduced 30 Kč / family 80 Kč
Website: www.ngprague.cz/6/detail/kinsky-palace/
Prague Castle Riding School (Jízdárna Pražského hradu)
Description: Biedermeier Arts and Culture in the Bohemian Lands, 1814–48. Running along U Prašného mostu, the Riding School – which dates back the late 17th century – is now used as the National Gallery’s principal exhibition space (together with the Wallenstein Gallery below).
Address: U Prašného mostu 55, Praha 1, Hradčany
Phone: +420 224 373 232
How to get there: Metro line A (to Malostranská), then Tram 22, 23 (to Pražský hrad)
Open: 10 am – 6 pm Tue – Sun, closed Mon
Admission: Full 140 / reduced 70 Kč / family 210
Website: www.kulturanahrade.cz
Wallenstein Gallery (Valdštejnská jízdárna)
Description: Consistently impressive, the Wallenstein Gallery’s exhibitions range from the bizarre and challenging (read the Tvrdohlavi group) to turn-of the-20th century romanticists such as Max Švabinský. Genuinely thought-provoking and always worth a visit.
Address: Valdštejnská at Klárov, Praha 1, Malá Strana
Phone: +420 257 073 136
How to get there: Metro line A (to Malostranská), Tram 12, 18, 22, 23
Open: 10 am – 6 pm Tue – Sun, closed Mon
Admission: varies
Website: www.ngprague.cz/8/detail/valdstejnska-jizdarna/
Expositions of the City Gallery Prague (Galerie hlavního města Prahy):
www.citygalleryprague.cz
Old Town Hall (Staroměstská radnice)
Description: Short-term exhibitions – current schedule applies.
Address: Staroměstské náměstí 1, Prague 1
Phone: +420-224 828 244
How to get there: Metro line A (to Staroměstská)
Open: 10 am – 6 pm (spring, summer), 10 am – 5 pm (fall, winter)
Admission: Full 40 Kč / reduced 20 Kč
Website: www.citygalleryprague.cz
House at the Golden Ring (Dům U zlatého prstenu)
Description: Czech art of the 20th century.
Address: Týnská 6, Prague 1 (Ungelt)
Phone: +420-224 828 244
How to get there: Metro line A (to Staroměstská)
Open: Tue – Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: Full 60 Kč / reduced 30 Kč
Website: www.citygalleryprague.cz
Trója Chateau (Trojský zámek)
Description: Czech painting of the 19th century, Czech sculpture 1900-1970.
Address: U Trojského zámku 1, Prague 7
Phone: +420 283 851 626
How to get there: Bus 112 (from metro station Nádraží Holešovice, line C, to Zoologická zahrada)
Open: 10 am – 6 pm (spring, summer), 10 am – 5 pm (fall, winter)
Admission: Full 120 Kč / reduced 60 Kč / family 250 Kč
Website: www.citygalleryprague.cz
The Bílek Villa (Bílkova vila)
Description: Studio of the Czech art-nouveau symbolism sculptor František Bílek (1872 – 1941).
Address: Mickiewiczova 1, Prague 6-Hradčany
Phone: +420-224 828 244
How to get there: Tram 22 (to Královský letohrádek or tram 18 to Bílkova vila)
Open: 10 am – 6 pm (spring, summer), 10:00 – 17:00 (fall, winter)
Admission: Full 50 Kč / reduced 20 Kč
Website: www.citygalleryprague.cz
House at the Stone Bell (Dům U kamenného zvonu)
Description: Short-term exhibitions – current schedule applies
Address: Staroměstské náměstí 13, Prague 1
Phone: +420-224 828 244
How to get there: Metro A to Staroměstská
Open: 10 am – 6 pm, closed on Mondays
Admission: Full 100/120 Kč/reduced 50/60 Kč
Website: www.citygalleryprague.cz
Strahov Picture Gallery (Strahovská obrazárna)
Description: Czech- and European Gothic, Baroque and Rococo paintings and paintings of the first half of the 19th century.
Address: Strahovské nádvoří 1/132, Prague 1-Hradčany (Strahov Monastery)
Phone: +420 233107730
How to get there: Tram 22 or 23( to Pohořelec)
Open: daily 9 am – 12 pm and 12:30 pm – 5 pm
Admission: Full 60 Kč / reduced 30 Kč
Website: www.strahovskyklaster.cz
The Czech Museum of Fine Arts (České muzeum výtvarných umění v Praze)
Description: Formerly the Mid-Bohemian Gallery, the Czech Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1963 as a regional gallery. It was originally housed in Nelahozeves Castle near Prague, relocating into three sympathetically restored baroque buildings on Husova Street in the Old Town district of Prague in 1971. The museum hosts temporary exhibitions of twentieth-century Czech art as well as retrospectives of foreign artists. The Gallery is currently looking to reorganize its exhibitions using new premises in the town of Kutná Hora, which are due to be used from 2008.
Address: Husova 19-21, Praha 1, Staré Město
Phone: +420 222 220 218
How to get there: Metro line A,B (to Můstek or Národní třída, line B)
Open: Daily except Mondays 10am to 6pm / Final admissions at 5:45pm / Open on public holidays from 10am to 6pm
Admission: 50 Kč / 20 Kč, free admission: children under the age of 6, ICOM, ISIC, ISTC, AICA, cardholders and Prague Card holders
Website: www.cmvu.cz
Galerie Rudolfinum
Description: Prestigious exhibition space for renowned international artists as well as upcoming local talent. Specializing in modern visual arts, the Rudolfinum’s exhibitions are widely publicized, well-attended events, which also regularly include seminars, evening viewings and special-interest activities for schools. A simple, up-to-date website provides background on current and forthcoming exhibitions.
Address: Alšovo nábřeží 12, Staré Mēsto, Praha 1
Phone: +420 224 893 309
How to get there: Metro line A (to Staroměstská), Tram 17, 18
Open: 10 am – 6 pm Tue-Sun, closed Mon
Website: http://www2.rudolfinum.org/
Prague House of Photography
(Pražský dům fotografie)
Description: With up to ten exhibitions per year, the PHP showcases talent from both the Czech Republic and international stage, specializing in contemporary photography, workshops and art sales. Often intriguing, but never dull, the House (although based at the lower address) is exhibiting at temporary locations in Prague due to water damage caused by the devastating floods that hit the city last year.
Address: Haštalská 1, Praha 1, Staré Mēsto
Phone: +420 224 810 779
How to get there: Metro line B (to Náměstí Republiky), Tram 5, 8, 14
Open: daily 11 am – 6 pm
Website: www.php-gallery.cz
Gambra – Surrealist Art
Description: Owned by the surrealist animator Jan Švankmajer, Gambra is, without doubt, one of Prague’s most interesting galleries. Chock full of sculptures, ceramics and lithographs by both Jan and his wife Eva, the couple’s work continues the tradition of Prague’s well-established surrealist movement (which has existed in the city since the 1920s). Including works by Karel Baron and Eva Medková, the gallery also carries books, videos, periodicals and prints relevant to the genre.
Address: Černínská 5, Hradčany, Praha 1
Phone: +420 220 514 527
How to get there: Tram 22/23
Open: Mar-Oct noon – 6 pm Wed – Sun, Nov – Feb noon-5.30 pm Sat/Sun, closed all other days
