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In 2023, the National Museum’s Central Advisory Board for collection activities discussed 36 proposals for the purchase of collection items or sets of items in the total proposed amount of CZK 16,356,055. The purchase of all 36 proposed acquisitions was approved.
This year, the National Museum received a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture’s ISO II/C programme for the purchase of objects of cultural value for the Czech Museum of Music, the Náprstek Museum and the Historical Museum. Two letters by Antonín Dvořák were purchased for the Czech Museum of Music, and part of a set of Mongolian ritual dance masks was purchased for the Náprstek Museum. The remaining portion of a set of Sokol memorabilia and a set of objects, mainly children’s toys and clothes from a private collection, were purchased for the Historical Museum. These two acquisitions had been approved by the Advisory Board in previous years.
Of the total subsidy of CZK 2,316,000, the entire allocated amount was used; the co-financing amounted to CZK 1,965.24.
In 2023, the National Museum received an ISO IIúD grant for the Historical Museum, specifically for the purchase of two drawer wardrobes for clothing and funds for the final stage of the restoration of the theatre costumes from Kačina Castle. Furthermore, the National Museum received funds for the restoration of a Chinese scroll painting for the Náprstek Museum, the preparation of a gorilla using the dermoplastic method for the Natural History Museum and the restoration of the autograph of the Devil’s Wall by B. Smetana for the Czech Museum of Music.
In 2023, a total of 5.48% of the objects in the National Museum’s collection inventoried during the first inventory cycle were inventoried. 2023 was the first year of the National Museum’s second twenty-year inventory cycle, which will run from 2023 to 2042. In the course of the inventory, the same procedure was chosen as in the first 20-year cycle, namely the initial number of objects was taken as the number of objects as of 31. 12. 2023 – i.e. 3,670,583. This number has been frozen as in the last inventory cycle and will continue to be used as the basis for setting quotas.
In 2022, restoration work was completed on 20 objects of cultural value that were destroyed during the war, and in 2023, additional and finishing work was carried out and the preparation of an exhibition to display the objects began. The opening of the exhibition took place on 13 April 2023 in the presence of Syrian colleagues from the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums. Following the exhibition, the restored objects were returned to Syria on 31. 5. 2023.
The funds of CZK 1,808,866.09 spent in 2023 were used mainly for the preparation and construction of the exhibition and finishing restoration works.
