Národní muzeum a Josef Volf počátkem roku 1919 / National Museum and Josef Volf at the beginning of the year 1919

Pages

71-83

Citation

WOITSCHOVÁ, Klára. Národní muzeum a Josef Volf počátkem roku 1919 / National Museum and Josef Volf at the beginning of the year 1919. Journal of the National Museum. History Series. Prague: National Museum, 2016, 185(3-4), 71-83. ISSN 1214-0627. Also available from: https://www.nm.cz/en/periodicals/jotnmhs/185-3-4/narodni-muzeum-a-josef-volf-pocatkem-roku-1919-national-museum-and-josef-volf-at-the-beginning-of-the-year-1919

Journal of the National Museum. History Series | 2016/185/3-4

Documents produced in running the National Museum are vital in investigating its history. But they do give a picture of only one side to its existence, if a fundamental one. In order to investigate ‘behind the scenes’ at the institution, it is particularly useful to look at the private documents of the players involved in different events. The diaries of Josef Volf provide this opportunity for the history of the Museum between 1904 – 1937, as the head of the museum library. He wrote a private diary which has been preserved and which contains often very personal testimony not only of his private life, but also events in the institution with which he was involved for most of his life. The study gives a biography of Josef Volf, and also contains a detailed description of his diaries and selected edited sections therein regarding various tranches of the author’s life.

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