Founded in 1953, the Gallery of West Bohemia houses one of the Czech Republic's most important collections of visual art - 10,000 graphic, painted and sculptural works, with an emphasis on Czech art of the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries.
Roman Musil has been the Director of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Plzen since December 2007. He previously worked in the Ministry of Culture and in the National Gallery in Prague. He specializes in the art and cultural history of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.