Exhibitions - April 2023

Hello, Armenia, "Բարև Չեխիա"
Thirty Years of Diplomatic Relations between the Rebublic of Armenia and the Czech Republic
April 5 - May 16, 2023

Poster - Opening ceremony

The exhibition has been organized by the National Library of Czech Republic and the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia to the Czech Republic in association with University of Pardubice and the Czech society Slavic Union. Featured is a colorful mosaic of portraits of eminent Armenian personalities and the most beautiful natural and cultural heritage sites. Apart from photographs the display presents documents from the National Library´s collections and hitherto unpublished results of archaeological research.

Klementinum, ground floor (gate A)
Mon - Sat 9 am - 7 pm (in the NL Opening Hours)
Admission to the exhibition for the NL registered users and those with a one-day Admission Ticket in the NL Opening Hours
NL readers entrance free

The Initials
March 29 - May 7, 2023

Poster - Opening ceremony

The exhibition is the result of a joint project of two studios of Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The project was led by Renáta Fučíková, Kristina Fišerová and Rostislav Vaněk.
The word Initial comes from Latin Initium, a beginning. The Guide to Illuminated Manuscripts says that it is an enlarged and decorated letter introducing an important section of a text. Initials can have a different level of significance. Among the most common forms of initials are decorated, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, zoo-anthropomorphic, gymnastic, inhabited or historiated. In the collections of the National Library of the CR you can find a large number of examples which prove the transformation of historical periods, styles and handwriting of both known and unknown authors.
The Initial was the theme assigned to students of the two studios. The display features some of their works.

The Klementinum Gallery
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm
Admission free

Only in Czechoslovakia  did I Feel Entirely Belarusian
April 12 - May 31, 2023

Poster – Photo gallery from the memorial meeting

The exhibition and memorial meeting on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of the Belarusian poet Larysa Henijuš (1910–1983) have been organised by the Skaryna Educational Association and the National Library of the Czech Republic – Slavonic Library.
The exhibition presents the personality and work of Larysa Henijuš, a Belarusian poet and a leading representative of the Belarusian interwar diaspora. Through a combination of panels and showcases, the exhibition outlines the key moments of the poet’s life as well as her literary work. Larysa Henijuš came to Czechoslovakia in 1937 to visit her husband, a physician. During the war, they both worked in the Belarusian Self-Help Committee, and Ms Henijuš was in charge of the archives of the Council of the Belarusian People’s Republic (the Belarusian government in exile). After the war, the Soviet authorities requested the extradition of the couple. In 1948, both were illegally deprived of Czechoslovak citizenship and were handed over to the USSR, where they spent many years in Gulag camps. Larysa Henijuš continues to be a model of civil defiance against Soviet totalitarianism and an example of the struggle for the democratic future of the Belarusian nation.
The memorial meeting was held on 12 April 2023 at 4 p.m. in the Meeting Room of the National Library of the Czech Republic.

Klementinum, 1st floor (gate A)
Mon - Sat 9 am - 7 pm (in the NL Opening Hours)
Admission to the exhibition for the NL registered users and those with a one-day Admission Ticket in the NL Opening Hours
NL readers entrance free