The Czech composer and conductor František Škroup was one of the most important musicians active in Bohemia in the second quarter of the 19th century. For 30 years from 1827, he was a conductor at the Estates Theatre in Prague, the leading operatic stage in Bohemia (and from 1837 to 1858 the chief…

The critical years. The nineteen sixties in the Archive of the National Museum The period of the nineteen sixties is a period of crucial endeavours by archivist Aleš Chalupa at the Archive of the National Museum. During this period he drew up a very interesting plan for documenting the present,…

The issue of the research of parchment fragments with the notation: two probes – two paths Loose fragments of reused parchment from the Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov and a selection of book bindings from the library of the Franciscan Monastery at Our Lady of the Snows in Prague…

Rare double-cover bindings in the collections of the National Museum Library Unlike contemporary embossed bindings, Gothic double-cover bindings are mostly undecorated, as priority was given to the binding’s useful function. Covered codexes were stored in a horizontal position and the wide…

Research and restoration of an archaeological set of Renaissance glass from the historical collection of the National Museum The studied set of archaeological Renaissance glass originates from salvage research related to the construction of the metro in the centre of Prague in 1966. According to…