National Gallery Prague – Kinsky Palace — Local services in Prague

I came in a Friday after lunch, with my friend, it was recommended to start from the 4th level and going down until 1 . We didn’t even enter good in the 4th level that the old security lady came at us telling we cant enter with the water and to leave it at the door, we left it at the entrance door and started to look at paintings, after I took a picture to a painting the same lady came very aggressive to ask me to show her my last picture, showed her, she just looked and left, after I looked at her and ask her if I m not allowed to take pictures, she said we can. That was just strange. After we walked further more, she was just following us staring at us angry . After a while she followed us and nagging her head , I got really stressed out by this attitude of this security lady, like I m some sort of criminal, and I decided to take a seat and stay on my phone to calm down, my friend saw me and he came by my side to hug me, take some selfies and to change my mood and kissed me, that lady came very fast at us screaming in the museum to get out! I asked her what is happening, she said to get out immediately pointing the finger to the exit, we both asked what is happening here, she said “this is a art gallery! Get out immediately or I call security to escort you out!” We was in shock, what happened? What did we do to receive such treatment? Is Prague a Muslim city and I don’t know that?We didn’t make any noise like other people who were next to us, we just made pictures with our phone and hug each other. I ve been in more than 40 museums all over Europe and Canada and I never had such treatment. That lady destroyed my mood for the whole day and also destroyed my last day in Prague. Extremely unpolite and unprofessional. I cannot recommend this museum because the old lady screamed at us to get out shortly after we entered. We paid to get our last day ruined. I also want to add that after we came down I tried to inform the people who were selling the tickets as I didn’t know where else to go , they just said they are sorry and that they will report the behavior . As I checked other reviews here , more people had the same experience as we did so I think nothing it changed, I mean I m paying a ticket to enter and see the gallery and after a while we started the tour we are escorted out by the old lady who didn’t leave us a second from her eyes since the second we stepped there?...

There were two older houses on the site of today's palace in the Middle Ages. In the western part of the palace there are remnants of a Romanesque house in the underground, and another early Gothic house northern of it. Today's rococo palace was built for Count Jan Arnošt Golz from 1755 to 1765 according to the older plans of Kilian Ignacio Dientzenhofer and under the guidance of architect Anselmo Lurago. A rich stucco decoration was done by C. G. Bossi on the facade. It is topped by two statues that are decorated with a number of sculptures. They depict the ancient gods and are the work of Ignatius of Franz Platzer. Two symmetrically located monumental entrances lined with stone pillars connect a narrow balcony on the first floor. After the death of Count Golz, the palace was bought by Prince Rudolf Kinský in 1768. At the time of ownership of the Kinsky family, the interiors were rebuilt classicistically.

Na místě dnešního paláce ve středověku stávaly dva starší domy. V západní části paláce se v podzemí dochovaly zbytky románského domu, severněji pak jiný raně gotický dům. Dnešní rokokový palác byl postaven pro hraběte Jana Arnošta Golze v letech 1755 až 1765 podle starších plánů Kiliána Ignáce Dientzenhofera a pod vedením architekta Anselma Luraga. Na fasádě provedl bohatou štukovou výzdobu C. G. Bossi. Průčelí je nahoře zakončeno dvěma atikami, které zdobí řada soch. Znázorňují antické bohy a jsou dílem Ignáce Františka Platzera. Dva souměrně umístěné monumentální vchody lemované kamennými sloupy spojuje v prvním patře úzký balkón. Po smrti hraběte Golze koupil roku 1768 palác kníže Rudolf Kinský. V době vlastnictví rodu Kinských byly interiéry přestavěny...

So, this one, is a bit of a tourist trap.

The wife and I went for the Dali and Warhol exhibits. The wife loves Dali, I like Warhol, so win win.

Meh

So the Dali exhibit is made of lithographs. I don't think we actually saw a single original item that Dali may have touched.

Now that's not a bad thing, but for the slightly higher price I would have liked to see an original.

Now I'm no Dali expert and some of the sculptures may have been original and I'm more than willing to be corrected on that one. (In fact I'd love to be corrected because that would mean I'd seen an original Dali 😀)

Now the Dali exhibit isn't bad, lots and lots of paintings, just copies.

Now, with the Warhol exhibit, I kinda expected that.

Warhol, mass produced art, kinda his whole idea.

The Warhol exhibit was better, some actual real articles such as letters from family and some of the original records Warhol designed the covers for.

No complaints there.

In summary, not awful, just a tad overpriced I felt.

But what do I...