Art museums in Czechia

The Kinský Palace is a former palace that is now part of the National Gallery Prague. The palace's name refers to its former ownership by the Kinský noble family. This Rococo building features rich stucco and sculptural decoration. Next to many temporary exhibitions, it hosts an extensive exhibition

The Veletržní Palác (Trade Fair Palace) in Prague houses one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art in the Czech Republic. The building is designed by Josef Fuchs and was the first example of Functionalist architecture in Prague. The National Gallery Prague is a Czech national mus

The Musée Grévin Praha, also called Wax Museum of Legends Grévin is a wax museum in Prague. The museum has an exhibition with waxworks of Czech and internationally renowned people, set in rich scenographies full of visual and sound effects.

Set up in the 12th century, the Strahov Monastery is nowadays used by Strahov library and Strahov Picture Gallery. The gallery has more than 1,500 pieces of art on display, including collections of Rudolfine, Flemish and Italian paintings. The library has a beautiful interior with colourful frescoes

The Baroque Kaunicky Palace in Prague houses the Mucha Museum, a museum dedicated to the work of a famous Czech Art Nouveau painter and artist, Alphonse Mucha. A collection of more than 100 artworks inlcuding his famous posters, photographs, drawings and also personal memorabilia. The exhibition foc

The Franz Kafka Museum in Prague is a museum devoted to a famous novelist of Czech origin, Franz Kafka. The exhibition was first opened in Barcelona, then moved to NY and finally ended up in Prague. The museum's main aim is to introduce the city in which Kafka lived and wrote; to show it through the

The Convent of Saint Agnes of Bohemia in Prague is a 13th-century building which originally served as a convent founded by Saint Agnes of Bohemia. Located on the right bank of the Vltava river, this Gothic building is one of the oldest of its kind in Prague. The convent houses a collection of Renais

The St. George's Basilica in Prague was originally built around 920 by Vratislaus I of Bohemia. It is the second oldest church in Prague and belongs to the best preserved Romanesque sights in the Czech Republic and is home to tombs of many members of the royal Premyslid dynasty. The church was rebui

The Museum of Miniatures is a museum on Strahov in Prague where visitors use a microscope or a magnifying glass to view micro-miniature art models, for example the Eiffel Tower in a cherry stone or a golden bicycle on a needle. The Miniature Museum has 29 exhibits, including works by three authors:

Museum Kampa in Prague is housed in the former Sova's Mills. It is a gallery that primarily focuses on European art, with special focus in its exhibitions on works by Czech artists. Most of the pieces in its collection come from the private collection of Meda Mládek, wife of Jan V. Mládek. The museu

The National Gallery Prague is the Czech national museum of painting and sculpture. This location, the Sternberg Palace (Šternberský Palác) is dedicated to antique art as well as works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries from France, Italy, Spain, as well as Dutch and Flemish masters.

The House of the Black Madonna, designed by Josef Gočár, is the earliest example of Cubist architecture in Prague. The name comes from a statue of the Black Madonna, decorating the facade. The building is now part of Museum of Decorative Arts, housing an exhibition focused on Cubism.

The Moravian Gallery in Brno is the second largest art museum in the Czech Republic. The museum comprises five buildings in total of which four are in Brno. This is the Pražák Palace - Moravian Gallery, that was built for the Brno politician Alois Pražák, designed by Theophil von Hansen. The museum

In the Zetor Gallery in Brno, visitors can learn about the history of Zetor tractors, but also get to know the modern machines produced by the company, from the Zetor 25 to the Crystal or Super model series to the current product line. The museum has around 15 Zetor tractors on display that illustra

Villa Löw-Beer in Brno was owned by Alfred Löw-Beer, a Jewish industrialist and trader in textiles, from 1913 to 1939. He gave his daughter Greta part of the plot at the end of the 1920s, where she had a house built between 1929 and 1930 with her husband: Villa Tugendhat. The restored Löw-Beer Villa

The Salmovský Palace is a large Classicist palace-type building in Prague with an exhibition of the National Gallery of the 19th Century from Classicism to Romanticism on the 1st and 2nd floor. The ground floor serves for short-term exhibitions. The building was commissioned by the Prague Archbishop

The Museum of Applied Arts in Brno is part of The Moravian Gallery that holds a collection of applied arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection includes collections of glass, ceramics and porcelain, textiles, furniture and metalware.

Dietrichsteinsky Palace is part of the Moravské zemské muzeum (the Moravian Museum), the second largest and the second oldest museum in the Czech Republic that holds a collection of more than 6,000,000 objects from different fields of culture and science. The The Dietrichstein Palace was built betwe

The Brno House of Arts is an exhibition centre without artistic collections of its own that focuses on present-day issues from both artistic and social life. The modern building on Malinovského Square features established artists from the Czech or international scene. The exhibition halls in the Hou

The Montanelli Muzeum is a private art museum in Prague where history and modern art styles are combined in a symbiotic relationship, by exhibiting renowned contemporary Czech and international artists with special focus on young artists.

Madame Tussauds Prague is a wax museum that displays wax doppelgangers of well known historical figures, artists, scientists and philosophers as well as celebrities and movie characters. Here you can meet your favorite celebrities such as Taylor Lautner, Will Smith, and Lady Gaga. Some of the floors