Due to its universal availability and easy workability, woodworking is naturally one of the oldest and longest-developing human skills in material craftsmanship. Over the past millennia and centuries, the craftsmanship of woodworking has continuously developed and, over time, differentiated and…

The study deals with the representation of photographs from China in the Náprstek Museum’s stereoscope collection. A brief summary of the historical development of the Náprstek Museum’s photographic collections and the phenomenon of stereoscopic photography in the 19th century is followed by the…

This case study deals with the confiscated property from China belonging to the Junowicz family in Teplice in 1946. Roman Junowicz was a naval officer who served in China during the Boxer Uprising of 1899–1901. The first part is dealing with confiscated property history and with the Junowicz…

In the collections of the earliest phonograph cylinders held by American memory institutions, a remarkable set of recordings with Czech content can be found under the title of Jedlička Records, derived from the name of Eduard Jedlička (1867–1944), a Czech immigrant to the US. The authors of the…

The article focuses on two collectors – Nélie Jacquemart André, who was French, and Isabella Stewart Gardner, who was American. Both ladies created fascinating collections at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries including a wide range of art objects from different periods. The core of these…

June 2022 saw the biennial conference on musical instruments organized by The Galpin Society in association with The University of Edinburgh. The papers presented a wide range of organological topics related to the fields of stringed instruments and especially wind instrument (woodwind and brass).…

The article details the preparation and run of the exhibition “Fashion in Blue. Tradition and Present of Indigo in Japanese and Czech Textiles”, which took place at the turn of the years 2021 and 2022 in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. The exhibition presented the rich tradition and the…

The article describes the online project “Střípky z ostravské archeologie”, which managed to place in the “Zlatý mamut” competition in 2022. The project could not have been created without long-term professional work, therefore the article outlines also the development of archeology in Ostrava. The…

The article deals with the collection of Karel Tutsch, which was taken over by the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové in 2021. The private collection contains a total of 844 art objects, representing a wide range of periods and techniques. In 2023, the gallery plans to open a long-term…

The Humboldt Forum was opened in Berlin in the fall of 2021. The collections of the Ethnological Museum, containing mainly exhibits from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as the collections of the Museum of Asian Art, were moved from Dahlem to the newly reconstructed building of the…