The Bratislava City Gallery ( sk, Galéria mesta Bratislava, abbr. GMB) is a gallery located in
Bratislava,
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
, in the
Old Town. It is the second largest Slovak gallery of its kind.
The gallery is housed at the
Mirbach Palace Mirbach Palace is a Baroque-Rococo building in the historical zone of Bratislava. The four-wing, two-story building, which ranks among the most beautiful and best-preserved architectural monuments of the mentioned style period in Slovakia, was named ...
(''Mirbachov palác'') and
Pálffy Palace (''Pálffyho palác'').
The gallery was founded in 1961, although the first attempts to collect works of arts began in the 19th century, when the
Bratislava City Museum was established. It currently contains approximately 35,000 works of art.
References
External links
Official site
Culture in Bratislava
Art museums and galleries in Slovakia
Museums in Bratislava
Art museums established in 1961
1961 establishments in Slovakia
{{Europe-art-display-stub