The museum experience is influenced by a variety of factors. In recent years there has been an increasing awareness of these various influences and museums have been placing special emphasis on the expansion of their wide range of services, e.g. increasing visitor comfort and both physical and…

Museum staff can utilise the new media in many different ways. This article identifies three areas in which technologies, thoughts, concepts and ideas related to new media can enrich museums. We can use the new media in exhibitions, for implementing special events (workshops, competitions, etc.)…

By comparing the known published sources and archival materials we have successfully reconstructed the process of the establishing of the Tachov Museum in the period following the 2ndWorld War. We can accurately identify the date of the 26th February 1954, the date on which the District People’s…

The Regional Art Gallery was established in Karlovy Vary in January 1953. At that time it was one of eight specialised museums in Bohemia and Moravia. At the outset the National Gallery in Prague assisted with exhibitions and with advice about collections. Its first decade was significantly…

The Olomouc Museum of Art was founded more than sixty years ago. It was not created all at one time: its development was gradual and took many twists and turns. This particularly applies to its core collection, which consists of State, Church and private collections that were donated to the care…

The paper discusses Dialogue.cz-sk, a project through which contemporary art jewellery “was included in” the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague during the period from January 30th to November 2nd, 2014. The text’s introductory section focuses on two other, similarly…

The new Museum Building with its permanent exhibition opened in Žďár nad Sázavou in 2013. The basic concept of the exhibition was dependent on the physical space of this renovated historic building. Four rooms were prepared for the exhibition. The first of these displays a visual synopsis of…

The report presented summarises the basic information concerning the history of the National Museum’s Field Research Station. It was founded in 1952 and it remains in use to this day. Initially the station was used for researching moors, while during the last 50 years it has been used mainly for…