Since its discovery in 1998, this preserved collection of glass negative plates from the production of renowned portrait studio, Langhans, has been subject to many surveys, some of which are still ongoing and are rediscovering lost facts about the studio and the important figures who had their…

Investigation, which is done on such important manuscript as Codex Vyssegradensis, has influence on many decisions concerning conservation and preservation of rare illuminated manuscripts. The Codex, which was created and illuminated for coronation of first Bohemian King Vratislav II. in the…

A survey of the physical condition of archival documents in the National Archive from 2007 to date, with submitted text focused on the course of the survey until 2013 and its methodology. In the survey, visual, microscopic and analytical assessment techniques are used. From the analytical…

This CR Ministry of Culture’s NAKI project, ‘Daguerre’s drawing with light…’ is being undertaken from 2012 to 2015 at FAMU’s Department of Photography as one of the most important projects of the newly created field of study, Photograph restoration, which has been implemented since 2012. The…

This paper gives a chronological overview of the photographic and written documentation in historic collections which are acquired in the National Library of the CR for restoration, conservation and protection of rare book collections. Basic differences in the documentation of historic book…

In 2010, the National Library began co-operation with Google, in order to be able to gradually digitise and publish on the internet approx. 200 000 document collections, with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the European Union. For the NL, preparation for…

„New library collections“ include documents created during last two hundred years, starting with year 1801. Thanks bookfunds digitization is changing importance and role of preservation bookfunds in their good physical state. Papers, produced after years 1845, are produced from non high quality,…

After a long period of stagnation, the importance of archaeology at the National Museum in Prague was raised by J. L. Píč, the first head of the newly independent Department of Prehistory (1893–1911). Professor Píč with his collaborators carried out many field researches and founded a modern…