Palac Kinskych

Kinský Palace on Old Town Square in Prague is a Baroque town palace built between 1755 and 1765. It was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer and constructed under the direction of Anselmo Lurago. Today the building houses the administrative headquarters of the National Gallery Prague. Inside, you can see permanent exhibitions of ancient and Asian art as well as Czech landscape painting. The architecture combines Rococo with early Neoclassical elements, while remnants of a medieval cross vault survive in the northern section. The site is also historically notable as the birthplace of Bertha von Suttner and as the residence of the Kafka family.