The Bratislava City Gallery (, abbr. GMB) is a gallery located in

Bratislava Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...

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, in the

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. It is the second largest Slovak gallery of its kind. The gallery is housed at the Mirbach Palace (''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.

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