This paper discusses the life of Olga Fikotová-Connollyová, Czechoslovak gold medallist at the XVIth Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956. Despite winning Olympic gold in discus throw, Olga Fikotová came into conflict with the ruling regime due to her relationship with American hammer thrower…

This methodologically-focused paper turns its attention to the issue of museum theatre documentation of the present as part of the active collection-building activities of the National Museum’s Theatre Department (NM TD). In the introduction, the author summarises the specificity of theatre…

The National Museum’s Theatre Department has been collecting materials on contemporary theatre since its establishment in 1930. Over the last fifteen years, however, it has substantially expanded its activities in the field of contemporary theatre documentation to include long-term and partial…

Alcohol and its common consumption played a fundamental role in folk culture, during everyday life and festive time as well. Although museum collections have a considerable number of decorated vessels that were intended for the storage and consumption of alcohol, it is very rare to find themes…

The topic of local trade in Carpathian Ruthenia, including various forms of goods distribution, has so far been addressed only to a very limited extent in scientific publications. This paper is the first to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of economic markets in this region in the 1920s and…

This study explores the visual communication of environmental themes through posters during the period of state socialism in Czechoslovakia. It analyzes how these posters reflected the contemporary relationship with nature, what artistic and linguistic tools were employed, and how they differed from…

In 1929, thirteen years after the death of Count Francis Lützow (1846-1916), an Austrian diplomat, historian, translator, and unofficial Czech ambassador to the Anglo-Saxon world, his wife Anna Countess Lützow donated her husband’s study at Žampach, including furnishings and the entire equipment, to…