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The first public municipal library in Prague started its activity on 1 July 1891. At the beginning it had 3 370 books, which were used in the lending and reading rooms. In 1903 it found its permanent location on the corner of Platnéřská Street, Žatecká Street and Mariánské náměstí in the Old Town, i.e. in the place where its present ...
The National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, housing around 6 million documents. The library currently has 20 627 registered readers. [1] Although comprising mostly Czech texts, the library also stores older material from Turkey, Iran and India. [4] The library also houses books for Charles University in Prague. [5]
The Pedagogical Library of J. A. Comenius in Prague is a public specialized pedagogical library contains books and magazines of education, upbringing and related sciences. The beginnings of the library are closely linked with the modern history of the independent Czechoslovak state.
The National Library was founded in 1781 and from 1782 the Clementinum was a legal deposit library. In 1791, the Clementinum was the site of the first World's Fair . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This industrial exhibition was held to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as king of Bohemia , and served to highlight the sophistication of manufacturing in ...
The Czech National Library of Technology (Czech: Národní technická knihovna, abbreviated as NTK) is located at Technická 6 in Prague 6. The building also houses a branch of the Municipal Library of Prague .
The Slavonic Library provides library and information services concerning the political, economic and cultural life of the Slavic nations, their mutual relations and their relations to other nations in the past as well as the present. Documents can be studied in the library's public reading room, provided with free internet access, an extensive ...
Libri Prohibiti is a nonprofit, private, independent, archival research library located in Prague, Czech Republic that collects samizdat and exile literature. The organization is maintained and run by Jiří Gruntorád and includes more than 29,200 monographs and periodicals, about 2,900 reference resources, and over 5,000 audiovisual materials.
In May 1964, the Museum was turned into an organization of five professionally autonomous components, which included the Museum of Natural Science, the Historical Museum, the Naprstek Museum of Asia, African, and American Cultures, the National Museum Library, and the Central Office of Museology. A sixth autonomous unit, the Museum of Czech ...