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KINSKEHO LETOHRADEK

Kinského zahrada 98, Praha 5, Prague 5
Classicist Summer Palace

Kinský Summer Palace is an Empire estate from 1827-31 by architect Jindřich Koch. Prague city held an Ethnographic exhibition in 1895 and its exponates were eventually moved into the Kinský Summer Palace in 1902. Today it is home to the ethnographical section of the National Museum, which was stationed here in 1903.


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The Summer Palace exterior, gardens, park.

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