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Centre for modern and contemporary art Trade Fair Palace.

Contemporary tastes are best catered for in the Trade Fair Palace. Not only does the building house the National Gallery excellent nineteenth and twentieth century Czech and international art collections, it is also an architectural sight in itself. A seven-story building constructed in 1928 by Oldrich Tyl and Josef Fuchs, is Prague's ultimate functionalist masterpiece, not so much from the outside, but inside, where its gleaming white vastness is suitably awesome. In 1974 the functionalist structure was destroyed by fire. Since its reconstruction in 1995, the building has housed exhibitions featuring a large selection of twentieth-century Czech art, as well as many superb European works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Location: Dukelskych hrdinu 47, Holesovice
Admission: 4 levels 250 / 120 CZK, 3 levels 200 / 100 CZK, 2 levels 150 / 70 CZK, 1 level 100 / 50 CZK, admission free 1st Wed of month
Opening hours: 10am-6pm Tue-Sun (to 9pm Thu). Mondays closed.
Directions: Metro lines C to Vltavska stop. Tram 5 from Namesti Republiky metro, tram 12 from Malostranska metro, tram 17 from Staromestska metro or tram 5,12,17 from Nadrazi Holesovice to Veletrzni stop.

In Czech: Veletrzni palac - Muzeum moderniho a soucasneho umeni