Nádobky na parfémy, vonné masti a oleje – nejstarší antické sklo ve sbírce Národního muzea (Od počátku výroby skla k vynálezu sklářské píšťaly) Helena Svobodova Core-forming technique is the oldest and most common way of producing glass vessels before glass blowing. Core-formed vessels suddenly appear during the second half of the 16th century. However, this technique achieved its apogee between the sixth and first centuries B.C., the glass bottles of…
Arabsko-český slovník beduínských výrazů v pozůstalosti Aloise Musila Tomáš Sadílek, Pavel Žďárský, Petr Přebinda In 2011 Vyškov Regional Museum acquired an Arab-Czech dictionary of Bedouin terms from the great-nephew of the orientalist and traveler Alois Musil (1868–1944). Until then it was stored in Musil’s Villa Músa in his native Rychtářov. It consists of 5415 cards containing Arabic words and phrases,…
Královéhradecká městská kancelář zvláště ve světle přímých zpráv z tamních dochovaných register z doby předbělohorské Jana Vojtíšková, Vít Šebesta The presented study reconstructs the appearance of the Hradec Králové city office using the results currently obtained from a long-term research study looking in this case at the preserved Hradec Králové register from the period before the Battle of White Mountain, which together with other…
Pomnichovské hranice v dobových ohlasech Michal Pehr The presented study looks at how Czechoslovakian (or Czech) society responded to the Munich Agreement and the creation of new borders around the curtailed state. The loss of the borderland was perceived by society at the time as a loss of a natural border which had been recognised for centuries.…
Miroslav Tyrš – estetik, historik umění a „památkář“ Miloš Matúšek Although Tyrš was not deeply involved in the theory or practice of conservation, he did delve into a number of fields which relate to conservation. The paper points to Tyrš’s theory of convergence, inspired by Hippolyte Taine, who lies behind Tyrš’s solution to issues on the completion of…
Archiv Národního muzea představuje: Osobní fondy Antonína Friče a Bohuslava Jiruše1 Kateřina Pařízková Two major figures who worked in the service of the National Museum at the end of the 19th century, and both of whom left their written estates in the museum archives, documenting their professional development and career progression in the museum. Antonín Frič began in the museum as a student of…
Ornitologické dopisy Emmanuela Lokaye Antonínu Fričovi z roku 1850 Jiří Mlíkovský In 1850, Emmanuel Lokay (1822–1890), Czech zoologist, wrote several letters to Antonín Frič (1832–1913), another Czech zoologist. In them he described his working conditions as a member of border finance patrol and listed ornithological records from the vicinity of Rumburk and Varnsdorf in…
