Metadata: Jewish Museum in Prague
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 314
- Title:
- Jewish Museum in Prague
- Title (official language):
- Židovské muzeum v Praze
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Museum in Prague
- Date(s):
- 1890/2009
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 29.43 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains minutes of meetings, activity reports, correspondence, statutes, storage documentation, records on the receipt of Jewish community property sent to the museum during the Nazi Occupation, records on the preparation of temporary and permanent exhibitions, visitor numbers, post-war documentation, property transfers, material relating to the care of its collections, documents relating to the activity of its heritage section, filing registers, material relating to publications and publicity, circulars, work plans, statistics reports, personnel and salary records, material relating to the management of immovable assets, material relating to the restoration of the Pinkas Synagogue, financial records, etc.
- Archival history:
- The records were created due to the activities of the Jewish Museum in Prague and its predecessors. A small amount of documents relating to the activities of the pre-war Association for the Founding and Maintenance of a Jewish Museum in Prague have also been preserved; they were taken over by the Jewish Community of Prague in 1940 and subsequently by the Central Jewish Museum, which was set up by the Nazi authorities. After the end of the Second World War, the records of the museum's predecessors were placed in the joint care of the Jewish Community of Prague and the Council of the Jewish Community of Prague. In 1950 the records were transferred to the State Jewish Museum in Prague. Since 1994 the fonds has been part of the archives of the privately-owned Jewish Museum in Prague. The museum's administrative documents are transferred to the archives on an ongoing basis.
- Access points: locations:
- Prague
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged according to the periods in which the individual predecessors of the Jewish Museum in Prague were active. The material is arranged chronologically and thematically according to section.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible
- Finding aids:
- Kurečková M: Židovské muzeum v Praze (1906-1945), Dílčí inventář, 2011, 12 s., AP č. 312. Kurečková M: Židovské muzeum v Praze I. (1945-1960), Manipulační seznam prvního typu, 2013, 75 s., AP č. 325. Kurečková M: Židovské muzeum v Praze II. (1960-1969), Manipulační seznam prvního typu, 2014, 71 s., AP č. 333
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
