overview about the place The Trade Fair Palace was once the world's largest building of its kind and Prague’s first building of a new architectural style: Functionalism. It was built by the architects Josef Fuchs and Oldřich Tyl in the 1920s. In the interwar period, the palace was primarily used for trade fair exhibitions. In 1928, a year that marked 10th anniversary of the democratic Czechoslovakia, the Trade Fair Palace was ceremonially inaugurated. Twenty monumental canvases of the Slav Epic by the art-nouveau icon and Czech patriot Alphonse Mucha were exhibited for the first time. Since the 1990s, it is home to modern and contemporary art collections of National Gallery Prague. more about the place The Slav Epic exhibition was spectacular. The Great Hall was transformed into an autumn orchard where paths sprinkled with sand led the way around the paintings. During the Nazi occupation, the Trade Fair Palace served as a gathering point for Jewish citizens before their transportation to the Terezín concentration camp. Later an administrative building, it got almost completely destroyed by a massive fire in 1974. Since 1995 it has been housing modern and contemporary art collections of the National Gallery Prague including Alphonse Mucha’s portrait of Josephina Crane Bradley as Slavia, The Czech Heart painting and a number of his celebrated poster designs.