Kritická léta. Šedesátá léta v Archivu Národního muzea

Abstract

The critical years. The nineteen sixties in the Archive of the National Museum The period of the nineteen sixties is a period of crucial endeavours by archivist Aleš Chalupa at the Archive of the National Museum. During this period he drew up a very interesting plan for documenting the present, which he also succeeded in implementing. But he also faced several serious crises. In relation to strict application of the principle of provenance in Czechoslovak archival science, there was a risk that the ANM would lose several rare resources, or rather its so-called Ancient collections. A competence dispute with another key institute, the Literary Archive of the Monument of National Literature, also erupted during this decade and, once again, the result was substantial depletion of the collections of the museum’s archive. Despite all these difficulties, A. Chalupa succeeded not only in defending the actual existence of the ANM itself, but even secured the status of Archive of Special Importance for it.