The paper provides a basic overview of the hitherto little-known scientific discipline in the Czech lands, namely feminist museology, and its related field – gender theory – in connection with museology. The study places the aforementioned perspectives in a broader world trend, which is understood…

Intersectional perspectives in postcolonial theories and gender studies have long argued that femininity represented in museums and exhibitions is subjected to multiple forms of othering. 1) Acquired social modes of looking at artifacts, women and/or Others correlate with androcentric male gaze that…

Archaeology is the study of past human societies primarily from preserved material sources, or fragments of the original material culture. In this field, despite the application of exact methods, do social constructs of past societies arise unconsciously and on the basis of social patterns of…

The article focuses on the exhibition ‘In Her Own Voice’, which the National Museum organised in 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Czechoslovakia. The exhibition presented the history of the processes and paths of women’s emancipation in the Czech lands in the last two…

Current mainstream education and the prevailing interpretation of history in museums and schools do not sufficiently reflect the history of minorities currently living in the Czech Republic. In what forms and to what extent are museums addressing this topic? Do minorities constitute a fully-fledged…