The Baroque in Bohemia permanent art exhibition can be viewed on three floors of the reconstructed Schwarzenberg Palace in Hradčanské náměstí (Hradčansky square) in Prague. Around 160 sculptural exhibits and 280 pieces of late Renaissance and Baroque painting, created from the late 16th to the end of the 18th centuries in the territory of the lands of the Crown of Bohemia, are presented within a 4,000 m2 space.
Exhibits are presented in the palace composed according to traditional chronology and stylistic periods of the Early, High and Late Baroque. Here are also presented the best-quality surviving examples of everyday workmanship from art studios, and particularly those of the 18th century. These include sculptural and painting sketches, models, authorial and workshop replicas and copies. The hall is dominated by sculptures, including, for example, the celebrated stone sculptures of Matyáš Bernard Braun from the attic gable of the Clam-Gallasov palace (1714–1716), a pair of angels from a hermitage near Lysá nad Labem, or a statue of a moor by Ferdinand Maximilian Brokof from the castle gate in Kounic. The creations of painters are represented by the works of such well-known artists as Karel Škrét, Petr Brendl, Václav Vavřinec Reiner, Hans von Aachen and others.
Schwarzenberg Palace was built between 1545 and 1567 and has served as an exhibition space from as early as 1910. Within the palace, in addition to the permanent exhibition, small exhibitions of a short-term character are also presented. A studio is also available in the palace and it serves, too, as a lecture hall.
By the end of 2008, a haptic (touch) exhibition, designed especially for visually handicapped visitors and entitled “A Touch of Baroque”, will be opened to the public in the basement.