July 15, 2020 |
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While the coronavirus pandemic might have forced almost the whole of emerging Europe into lockdown, this does not mean that we have stop enjoying cultural activities.With all governments announcing restrictions on gatherings, stay-at-home orders or even nationwide quarantines, a number of museums in the region have announced that they will be...
July 15, 2019 |
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Fifty years after his death, Czech student Jan Palach remains a national hero and an inspiration for new generations. This year, dozens of public events were held across the Czech Republic on January 16, including a concert alongside an exhibition in Wenceslas Square and the unveiling of a memorial plaque at Charles University, where Palach...
July 15, 2018 |
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A sculptor tasked with reconstructing the communist era pylon in front of the National Museum’s New Building has discovered old documents which show the monument’s author, Czech architect Karel Prager, dedicated it to Jan Palach, who set himself alight and died in 1969, in protest of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. The museum...
May 25, 2015 |
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The historic building of the National Museum overlooking Wenceslas Squareis undergoing a major renovation that is set to end in 2018. The museum hashad to relocate thousands of exhibits and is using the time to create newcollections and work on a modern, interactive presentation. I spoke to thehead of the museum’s collection-building and...
May 17, 2013 |
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The project “Echoes of Normalisation” is a series of nine radio broadcasts focusing on the situation in Czechoslovakia in the years 1968–1989. Together with the Czech Radio editor Ivana Denčevová and historian Michal Pullmann we have prepared topical discussions on the situationof the period, starting with an insight into the...
May 17, 2013 |
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The writer František Kožík is one of the most significant Czech authors of historical novels, including the world known“The Greatest of Pierots” that has also been made into a film. At the sametime, Kožík was confronted with the dramatic history of the 20th century. In 1943, in the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and...
May 17, 2013 |
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The future “Roma Holocaust Memorial” is to be built on the site of a former Roma concentration camp in Hodonín, Kunštát district. In this camp, Roma families from Moravia were interned in the years 1942–1943 and subsequently moved to extermination camps. In addition, the place is also associated with a previously existing...
May 17, 2013 |
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The project of the permanent exhibition at the Vysočina Museum in Třebíč explores the complete renovation of the Třebíč château, immediately adjacent to the UNESCO-listed St Procopius Basilica. The exhibition will consist of four parts. The first one will cover the world ofinorganic nature, focusing primarily on exceptional deposits of...
