This afternoon, the Schwarzenberg Palace will open

Prague - The Schwarzenberg Palace in Prague's Hradčany will open to the public this afternoon. The National Gallery in Prague (NG), which has been renovating the Renaissance palace for several years, is holding an open day from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM. After that, the building will close again and welcome its first visitors only in March next year. It will feature a new permanent exhibition of Baroque art.
    One of the most extensive Renaissance buildings in Prague has been serving exhibition activities since 1910, when the then Technical Museum placed its collections there. In the second half of the 20th century, the palace housed an exhibition of the Military Historical Museum, and the NG acquired the building in 2002.
    Since July 2003, it has been under reconstruction, and later the adjacent Salm Palace was also acquired. It is expected that 19th-century art, particularly from its first half, will be displayed in connection with the neighboring building. The collections of Rudolfine and Baroque art, currently housed in the Jiřský Monastery, will be installed in the Schwarzenberg Palace.
    According to earlier estimates, the reconstruction of both palaces is expected to cost around 500 million crowns.