VELETRŽNÍ PALÁC (FAIR PALACE)
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For the collections and temporary exhibitions as well as for the building itself, don't miss this visit!
The remarkable Veletržní Palace was built between 1925 and 1928 by Oldřich Tyl and Josef Fuchs. On the day of its inauguration, it became the largest building in the world (140 m long and 80 m wide) and the first functionalist public architecture in Europe. Le Corbusier came in person to admire this jewel. The building, converted into offices in 1950, was completely destroyed by fire in 1974. The palace, rebuilt to Miroslav Masák's design, reopened its doors in 1995. It's hard to describe this museum in a single word... Well, you could say: spectacular!
The palace houses part of the National Gallery's collections, including most of the works from the inter-war period (Picasso, Rodin, Manes and, of course, many Czech painters and sculptors). A large part of the permanent exhibition is devoted to the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), and features numerous works by artists of the period, as well as a wealth of testimonials, posters and advertisements from that not-so-distant era. Temporary exhibitions and the architecture of the building itself are also well worth a visit. In 2025, the Asian art collections, hitherto housed in the Palais des Foires, will be transferred to the Palais Salm in Malá Strana, where they will find a permanent home. Nothing has yet been decided for the space freed up here, which will currently be used for temporary exhibitions.
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