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Praze. L^łexposition Jean Hus, installee dans une salle romane du couvcnt, aux ares admirable-ment conscrves.

of works. Since the opcning datę this museum has registered over 283,000 yisitors.

In 1953, work was completed on the installation of the Museum of National Literaturę in a spacious and sumptuously appointed building in Strahov, Prague (fig. //), which was formerly a Premonstratcnsian monastery. The displays occupy 34 rooms, and have an overall lcngth measurement of 2,000 metres. The first section, which is housed in the Romanesque parts of the monastery, traces the development of Czech literaturę from the beginnings of Slav culture down to the most glorious epoch in the history of Bohemia, that of the Hussites (fig. jj), The second section shows the development of national literaturę from the beginning of the i6th century down to modern times (fig. /.?). The museum bases its display on materiał drawn from the literary archives of the National Museum, which contains some two million original documents relating to the history of Czech literaturę, and on its own extensive collection of original photographs, engravings and illustrations. It had 3 2 5,000 yisitors during its first four years of existence.

A part from these central museums, smaller local ones have been installed in the places where the great figures of Czech literaturę were born or did their work. They include the Joscf Sladek Museum at Zbiroch,in the Plzeń district, a Museum com-memorating the nationally famous artist and giant of Czech literaturę, Petr Bczruć, at Opava; in Slovakia, one at Dolni Kubln, in the Zilina district, commemorating the classic of Slovakian literaturę P. O. Hviezdoslav, and another at Svaty Jur, near Bratislava, commemorating Petr Jilemnicky, Slovakia’s most outstanding representa-tive of socialist realism (fig. jj). Generally speaking, the provincial museums of literaturę are organized with the help of the National Museum of Literaturę, the Literary Archives Section of the National Museum and the Institute of Czech Literaturę of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

( Translałedfrom the C\ech.)

j). The Jean Hass Exhibition installed in a Romancsque hall of the monastery, with well-prcserved arches of the vault.

/y. Museum Socialtstickeho Reai.ismu Petra Jilemnickeho, Svaty Jur, Bratislava. Lc Musće Petr Jilemnicky. Cctte exposition a ćtć installee dans la maison familialc ou l’ecrivain passa ses derniirres annćes.

/./. The Petr Jilemnicky Museum. This exhibi-tion has been installed in the house wherc the writer spent his last years.

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