Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region

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Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region (Czech: Galerie Středočeského kraje, abbreviated GASK) is an art gallery in Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. It is located in a renovated Baroque building that used to be a Jesuit College. GASK is the successor to the Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague. It cares for nearly 10,000 collection items (paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs and works of so-called new media). Gallery collections include about 3,000 paintings, 600 sculptures, 2,000 drawings, and 3,000 prints. Since 2009, it has been a subsidized organization of the Central Bohemian Region.

The Central Bohemian Gallery was established in 1964 as a spin-off from the Centre for State Heritage Preservation and Nature Protection of the Central Bohemian Region (SSPPOPSK) and until 1971 had a permanent exhibition at the Nelahozeves Castle. Since its foundation, it has focused primarily on 20th and 21st century fine arts. From 1971 to 2009, it was housed in three renovated medieval houses at Husova street 19–21, Prague 1. From 1993, it operated under the new name Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague in order to distance itself from the period of normalization, which meant an interruption in its development and the ideological destruction of its original concept. At that time, the gallery did not have suitable premises for presenting its collections and exhibited, among other places, at Karolinum and House of the Black Madonna. In 1998, it acquired the Jesuit College in Kutná Hora as its future location, and in 2001, its administration was transferred from the Ministry of Culture back to the Central Bohemian Region. After moving to Kutná Hora, it changed its name to the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region (GASK).

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