Exhibitions - May 2024

ATTENTION! The National Library is closed on Wednesday, May 8.

Memo Map: The History of Holocaust in Prague

May 6 - 19, 2024

Sixteen panels present, how the space of Prague was reduced for those labeled as Jews, depending on the issueance of protectorate anti-Jewish regulations. Orders and regulations led to the creation of invisible barriers that prevented contact between Jewish and non-Jewish residents of Prague. The exhibition also serves as an introduction to the application MemoGIS.

Klementinum, Students´ courtyard
Mon - Sun 5 am - 10 pm
Entrance free

Queens, Noblewomen and Burger Women: Cultural Activities of Women in the Middle Ages

May 5 – June 29, 2024

Poster

Compared to men, women during the Middle Ages had limited opportunities to influence political, economic and cultural life of the society. Despite of that they considerably contributed to the creation of material and spiritual culture.

Klementinum, ground floor (gate A)
Mon - Sat 9 am - 7 pm
ATTENTION! The National Library is closed on Wednesday, May 8.
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

Why We Do Not Lend You All Books or
The Permanent Preservation of Modern Collections in the National Library
March 22 – May 31, 2024

Poster - Opening ceremony

The extensive National Library holdings include nowadays over 7.7 million volumes. Most of them are the modern library collections, i.e. documents published after 1800. Every year the collections grow by tens of thousands of various documents, we have to take care of in order to preserve them for the future generations. We will show you that the collections management is not only the delivery of books from stacks to the reading rooms or to the circulation desk in the Main Hall. You will have the opportunity to look behind the scenes and discover what happens to books after they „enter“ the National Library. Through the basic steps of managment you will get to activities that help us preserve books for the future. You will learn about protective materials or deacidification and other methods of protecting books. You may be surprized that one of the options for their protection is their digitization, thanks to which the documents are available in the digital library and we can view them online, for instance from the comfort of our home.

The Klementinum Gallery
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission free