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 will present milestones in its 230-year history of presenting art collections. The images show how the Picture Gallery and later the National Gallery Prague gradually made its collections accessible to the public. The photographs commemorate exhibitions in the Rudolfinum and the Municipal Library, but also in the Sternberg Palace, which has been home to the Old Masters Collection for almost eighty years, but is also connected with the oldest history of the Picture Gallery. They capture exhibitions of the National Gallery Prague at Zbraslav Castle (from 1940 to 2009) or in the Kinský Palace. They also reflect its modern history in the St. George's Convent (where it presented its collections from 1976 to 2000), in the Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia, in the Trade Fair Palace, and most recently in the Schwarzenberg and Salm Palaces.
Curator: Martina Jandlová Sošková Venue: Korzo space adjacent to the Piazzetta
