The National Museum in the Czechoslovak Era

The project is focused on the research of the National Museum, throughout the era of independent Czechoslovakia (1918-1993), on two levels. The first level includes mapping the inner development of this important memory and scientific institution regarding its organisation and the content of its research and exhibition programme. In the 20th century, numerous scientific branches pursued originally (almost) exclusively within the National Museum were institutionalised and professionalised due to which the National Museum had to seek new exhibition and research contents and, at the same time, it was repeatedly confronted with a changing social situation. The second level of research is the relation to changing ideologies and coping with them. Another important aspect of the project is the dealing with the legacy of its own past, since the peak of the scientific as well as cultural-historical activities of the National Museum was undoubtedly the first century of its existence.

Project name: The National Museum in the Czechoslovak Era
Code: 16-02022S
Duration: 2016–2018
Agency: Czech Science Foundation
Project type: standard
NM’s investigator: Mgr. Marek Junek, Ph.D.

Anticipated results/outputs:
The elaboration of the history of the National Museum – an important memory and scientific institution – in the era of independent Czechoslovakia (1918-1993) and the verification of two formulated hypotheses relating to its existence and evolution. The project results will be published in the form of expert articles in peer-reviewed periodicals and chapters in specialist books.