Photo: Slavík, National Gallery Prague
Thirty years ago, on 13 December 1995, Veletržní Palace reopened after a long reconstruction. The National Gallery thus gained a representative home for its collection of modern and contemporary art, spread across 13,500 square meters. The opening was seen as a symbolic step — after decades of cultural isolation, Prague once again aligned itself with European modernism.
The reconstruction itself, which cost one billion crowns and took nearly ten years, was a major story in its own right.
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