National Gallery Prague

230 Years of the NGP

Mgr. Veronika Hulíková

The day of 5 February 2026 marks 230 years since the founding of the Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts, a private association whose main goal was to open a picture gallery to the public and in the course of time…

Open for 230 years

On February 5, 1796, the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art was established, which soon founded the Picture Gallery, the predecessor of today's National Gallery Prague. A selection of seventeen archival photographs…

Drawings by Zbyněk Sekal

The Cabinet of Doctor Faust II

Mgr. Markéta Vondrová, Ph.D.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s drama Faust ranks among the key works of world literature, and its representation in the fine arts also constitutes an important chapter in the history of 19th-century art. Illustrations for…

Helena Emingerová – Graphic Art

6 October 2026 – 17 January 2027 The Graphic Arts Cabinet presents the work of the artist Helena Emingerová (1858–1943) through the prints she produced from the second half of the 1890s. Already a respected and…

Zbyněk Sekal — Blue Flower

PhDr. Adriana Šmejkalová, Ph.D.

The exhibition traces the drawings of sculptor Zbyněk Sekal (1923–1998), from his early figural studies to works created while in exile in Vienna, presenting drawing as an autonomous space of thought and existential…

Chronos. The Theme of Time in 16th- to 18th-Century Prints

PhDr. Petra Zelenková, Ph.D.

Chronos – the personification of time as a winged old man with an hourglass and a scythe – was one of the most prominent and frequently used symbolic figures in Early Modern art. We find him in painting and graphic art,…

NGP: New Media – Lukáš Hofmann: Sospiri

Intervention by the Jindřich Chalupecký Society: Ezra Šimek The exhibition presents Lukáš Hofmann and his work Sospiri from the Magnus Art Collection, which the gallery acquired in 2024 as a donation from J&T Banka. The…

Anne Jagiellon (1503-1547): Queen at the Dawn of a New Era

PhDr. Blanka Kubíková, Ph.D., PhDr. Jaroslava Hausenblasová, Ph.D.

The exhibition is being held on the 500th anniversary of the accession of the House of Habsburg to the Bohemian throne and the establishment of the Habsburg monarchy within Central Europe. In 1526, when Louis II of…

ATLAS

Traditionally, the term “atlas” refers to a set of maps depicting specific territories. Our ATLAS is a similar set that charts areas of the gallery that are often invisible: the café, workspaces, the library, relaxation…

Tactile Exhibition

HAPTIC TRAIL – CLOISTER REMOVABLE ENLARGED DESCRIPTIONS IN BLACK PRINT FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED Introduction to the tactile exhibition The National Gallery Prague owns a numerous collection of casts of medieval works.…

1956–1989: Architecture for All

Mgr. et Mgr. Helena Huber-Doudová, Ph.D.

A ticket for this exhibition is also valid for all collection exhibitions at the Trade Fair Palace. The exhibition focuses on architecture and lifestyle between 1956 and 1989. Lifestyle is a phenomenon in which everyday…

1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era

Mgr. Michal Novotný, Mgr. et Mgr. Eva Skopalová, Ph.D.

A ticket for this exhibition is also valid for all collection exhibitions at the Trade Fair Palace. The End of the Black-and-White Era is not a comprehensive title for the years 1939–2021 but rather a slogan summarizing…

Medieval Art in Bohemia and Central Europe 1200–1550

Mgr. Štěpánka Chlumská

The exhibition from the collections of the National Gallery Prague, which can be visited on the first floor of the convent complex, presents more than two hundred exhibits of painting, sculpture and arts and crafts…

1918–1938: First Czechoslovak Republic

PhDr. Anna Pravdová, Ph.D.

A ticket for this exhibition is also valid for all collection exhibitions at the Trade Fair Palace. The permanent exhibition on the third floor of the Trade Fair Palace was created on the occasion of the hundredth…

1796–1918: Art of the Long Century

Mgr. Veronika Hulíková

A ticket for this exhibition is also valid for all collection exhibitions at the Trade Fair Palace. The exhibition 1796–1918: Art of the Long Century purposefully and naturally connects Czech and international art.…

Old Masters I

The permanent exhibition Old Masters in the Schwarzenberg Palace presents selected key artworks from the Collection of Old Masters (Hans von Aachen, Petr Brandl, Matthias Bernard Braun, Lucas Cranach, Adriaen de Vries,…

Old Masters II

PhDr. Olga Kotková, Ph.D., PhDr. Martina Jandlová Sošková, Ph.D.

The Old Masters II exhibition a follow-up to the Old Masters I permanent exhibition located in the opposite Schwarzenberg palace. Both exhibitions complement each other to form a coherent whole, while presenting…

ATLAS

Traditionally, the term “atlas” refers to a set of maps depicting specific territories. Our ATLAS is a similar set that charts areas of the gallery that are often invisible: the café, workspaces, the library, relaxation…

The Art of Asia Across Space and Time

Mgr. Lenka Gyaltso, Mgr. et Mgr. Kristýna Rendlová, Mgr. Markéta Hánová, Ph.D., Mgr. Jana Ryndová, Ph.D.

In a new exhibition at the Salm Palace, the Collection of Asian Art of the National Gallery Prague presents a selection of 520 artworks from Asia and the Islamic world, spanning 5,000 years and set in the context of…

Against the Current. The Surrealist Group. 1934-2024

Ten years after the publication of the first Surrealist manifesto by André Breton, the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia was founded on 21 March 1934. This quickly became the second most prestigious group of its kind…