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Kosice – East – Slovakian Gallery

The East-Slovakian Gallery was open in 1951 as the first regional gallery in Slovakia under the Regional Gallery (in 1960–1991 it bore the name The East-Slovakian Gallery). Its principal collection programme is to documents the artistic life in the East-Slovakian region. Since 1992, the Gallery has its seat in the former Zhupa (=District) House – built in 1779 according to projects by the Viennese architect J.Langer, in a Baroque-Neoclassicist style. In 1888–1889 its front section was readjusted, two court wings were annexed, and the back section was rebuilt. The facade carries a coat-of-arms relief of the Abov and Turnian zhupa from 1558. On the first floor, in the middle of the front part of the vbuilding is a representative assembly hall – the so-called Historical Hall. Painted in its illusive arcades are the coats-of-arms of the former Abov and Turnian zhupas, but also of certain towns and villages. On April 5, 1945, the first session of the Government of the National Front of Czechs and Slovaks was held in the assembly hall and also the Košice Government Programme was proclaimed here. A second building of the Gallery stands in the centre of the town, not far from the magnificent cathedral of St.Elizabeth, in the Alžbetínska Street. Orriginally a Baroque building from the early 18th century, it was adjusted towards the end of the 19th century in the spirit of a pseudo-historical style. The designer of the adjustments was the academic painter J.Bencúr.

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Surroundings

• Kosice - Museum of Aviation
• Kosice - Slovak Technical Museum
• Kosice - East - Slovakian Museum
• Kosice - Vojtech Löffler Museum