The History of the Gallery
 At the birth of the Vodnany Gallery there was a liberal gift from Dr. Blahornir Zahour to his native town. In 1966 he visited a local museum and this event supported his decision to provide his own possessions to establish a new town gallery. That was a collection of paintings gathered by Dr. Zahour and his wife during all their life. The gift contained about 150 paintings mostly by the Czech artists who lived and worked at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. In this collection you can find works by Oldrich Blazicek, Vaclav Brozik, Ota Bubenicek, Jan Dedina, Frantisek Elhenicky, Antonin Hudecek, Alois Kalvoda, Frantisek Kavan, Otakar Lebeda, Gustav Macoun, Alois Moravec, Jaroslav Panuska, Vojtech Sedlacek, Vaclav Spala, Joza Uprka, Frantisek Zenisek, Jan Zrzavy and some others. How time was passing the basic collection of the gallery has been completed particularly with the works of the Czech artists from the South-Bohemian region. For example there could be mentioned Vaclav Stetka, Jan Kojan and Ota Matousek.
The fund of the gallery was also completed with 44 drawings by Mikolas Ales which were created for the decoration of Vodnany church and school in Protivin between 1895 - 1902.
In 2 exposition halls there are the Memorial Halls of the writers Frantisek Herites and Julius Zeyer.
The Gallery was first opened for public at Christmas in 1967 as an integral part of The Town Museum. At the beginning the Gallery was named after its founders. In April 1968 there was a big fire that destroyed a part of the Town Hall. The newly reconstructed Gallery was reopened on 8th June 1969. There have been regular exhibitions of the Czech and local artists since 1973.
The money for the purchases of the new collection items are provided from the Fund of LLD. Zdenek Novak and his wife, which was established in 1992.
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