Events
2. 11. 2009
Oldřich Černík (1921 - 1994)
On 19 October 2009 fifteen years has elapsed since the death of Oldřich Černík, who chaired for 20 months, from April 1968 to January 1970, the Czechoslovak government.
30. 10. 2009
Dreyfus Affair
When the officer of the French General Staff Alfred Dreyfus was accused of espionage for German Empire, a great political scandal became unfolding which polarized and destabilized the French Third Republic for a long time. It was in the time when the French Republic was facing complicated internal political situation, when it was jeopardized claims of monarchists, strengthening socialists and political scandals, when trust in the parliamentary system was markedly undermined in particular because of the construction of the Panama Canal.
26. 9. 2009
Exhibition: Bartered Bride - Czech Opera of Operas
An extraordinary exhibition "Bartered Bride – Czech opera of Operas will be open to the public on 28 September 2009. The exhibition was arranged under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Jan Fischer in the framework of celebration of the Czech Statehood Day. It is a part of a joint project of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, the National Theatre, the Czech Radio and the National Museum.
26. 9. 2009
Czech Statehood Day 28th September 2009
The performance of the opera Bartered Bride in the National Theatre and a special series of music recordings of that opera on the occasion celebration of the 10th Czech Statehood Day are organized under the auspices of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. The Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, as well as the Saint Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia, belongs among Czech national giants. Concurrently an extraordinary exhibition Bartered Bride – the Czech Opera of Operas" will be opened to the general public. The exhibition has been prepared under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Jan Fischer and it is a joint project of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, the National Theatre, the Czech Radio and the National Museum.
21. 9. 2009
The Beneš's Government
In the course of September we will commemorate two anniversaries related to Edvard Beneš. On 3 September it will be 61-year anniversary of the death of the second Czechoslovak President. A less known anniversary will be on 22 September: 88-years anniversary of the Edvard Beneš's appointment as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Many people will be certainly surprised at this fact. Beneš's activities in the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President are widely known but his performance at the head of the government is less known stage of his life.
11. 9. 2009
Exhibition from 15. 9. 2009: Václav Cigler, Michal Motyčka - Double Vertical
Three-dimensional object will be placed for the long term in the Kramář's villa at the entrance to the villa. From there it can be seen by the public. The exhibition includes also other author's objects which are placed in the exterior of the villa.
10. 9. 2009
Dearly Paid Freedom
At the beginning of September we memorialize a sad anniversary - the beginning of the greatest conflict of human history, up to the present, the beginning of the World War Two.
8. 9. 2009
Exhibition from 8. 9. 2009: Jindřich Křeček-Jituš - drawings and prints
Painter and graphic designer (1909 – 1979), participant in the II. foreign revolt.
4. 9. 2009
Declaration of Human and Civic Rights
The period 1789 – 1799 was in France, which was on the edge of the state bankruptcy, a period of the Great French revolution. This revolution is generally perceived as the main crucial point of the European history because it entailed a transition from the absolutism to the civic society and establishing people as the main political power.
4. 9. 2009
21st August, 1968: Black day of Czechoslovak history
The events of August 1968 were a tragic outcome of the Prague Spring, as the short-lived political relaxation in communist Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s is referred to.
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