This article focuses on a little-known set of 19th century historical paintings from the collection of the Department of Early Czech History at the National Museum. Although the collection is small (a total of 12 paintings, one of which dates from the 18th century) and uneven in quality (alongside…

This paper focuses on selected aspects of the life of Countess Elisabeth Kinsky-Wilczek (1858–1938) as an example of the life of an aristocrat in the context of the dynamic social changes of the second half of the 19th century. It is based on the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts…

The paper deals with the development of the Sokol Physical Education Association in Mělník between 1905 and 1914, a period of intense social changes preceding the outbreak of the largest war the world had ever seen. For the Mělník Sokol Association, this was a period of frequent crises, but also of…

In 1936, the XI Summer Olympic Games (officially the Games of the X Olympiad) took place in Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. Due to the location, the games aroused strong emotions and controversies among the global public across continents. On the one hand, the Berlin Olympics, like many other…

This article provides an insight into the history of the museum practice in Czechoslovakia in the early years of state socialism. After an introductory section, it describes the establishment and selected chapters from the early days of the first communist party museum in Slovakia, the V. I. Lenin…

This paper focuses on thematic plans, which were supposed to be the key document in the production of Czechoslovak films in the first half of the 1950s. Cultural policy bodies – in this period primarily the Film Council as an advisory body to the Minister of Information and Education – annually…