By the close of the Hellenistic era new class of tableware appeared: so called grooved bowls made by sagging over or through hemispherical or conical former mold. Prominent form of vessels became bowls with ribs on its sides, so called ribbed bowls. They were made from monochrome and mosaic glass.…

The Russian Empire in second half of nineteenth century represented important phenomenon for modern Czech society and its political development. The aim of this study was to describe the relationship of the prominent Czech writer and intellectual Josef Holeček to Russia in this time on the basis of…

The study deals with the transformations of Czechoslovak political party affiliation after World War II, beginning with the political meetings of exile politicians still in the war time, when the picture of future post-war arrangements was taking form, and the idea of the National Front was being…

The paper analyses the written legacy of the art historian Karel Chytil. This collection of documents is outstanding at first sight by being fragmented across four institutions in Prague: the National Museum Archives, the Charles University Archives, the Museum of Decorative Arts Archives, and the…

Archives of the Nationa Museum amassed over nearly 170 years of its existence 2379 parchment charts stored in the collecions of parchments A and B. The extensive complex consists of 816 parchment document in the family archives Šternberk-Manderscheid. Another 80 parchment charts are as items…

With the approaching bicentenary of the establishment of the National Museum, some topics that have been utterly ignored in the past are being reopened. One of the more interesting ones is the issue of the history of the NM as a historiographic theme. Besides many partial attempts, history provides…