auxquelles participent reguli&rement de 300 a 350 chercheurs. Ces confćrences contribuent a la diffusion des connaissances et des realisations nouvelles en matiere de techniques museographiques.
Par le moyen de cours et de groupes d’etude, les comites nationaux des regions veillent a Pamelioration professionnelle du personnel des musees. Depuis 1957, la Commission de musćographie publie des etudes et des documents. Les publications des differents musćes font elles-memes connaitre les resultats obtenus et Pexperience acquise par des musćes de types extremement divers. D’ailleurs, les musees de ce pays procćdent a Pechange de leurs publications avec les musees etrangers. Cest ainsi que le Musee de la Moravie a Brno et le Musee national a Prague sont Pun et Pautre en contact avec plus de 700 instituts etrangers.
Les travailleurs des musees tchćcoslovaques souhaitent devclopper leurs relations amicales avec tous les instituts ćtrangers. Ils voicnt li un moyen de contribuer au maintien de la paix dans le monde entier. Car, en hommes qui s’appliquent a ras-sembler et d conserver les tómoignages concrets de la vie, du travail et de Ja culturc de leur nation, ils considerent qu’unc de leurs taches essentielles est de rendre la guerre impossible.
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/. Mor.wskij Museum v Brnć. Un specialiste du Musćc dc la Moravic a Brno donne a des cnfants avcuglcs des cxplications sur des objets prćhłstoriques qu’ils peuvent touchcr. Les collections systematiques du musee constituent une precicusc sourcc de documentation pour les ćtudiants dc Sciences naturellcs et de Sciences socialcs. C’cst ainsi qu’cn 1956, 6 650 personnes ont visitć les collcctions cPćtude. Lc musćc deploic une intense activitć dans Ic domaine de la vulgarisation.
/. One of the Museum's specialists giving blind children a talk illustrated by a number of spe-cimens of prehistorie objects, which they may handle. The systematic collcctions of the Moravian Museum in Brno arc a valuable source of documentation for univcrsity students of natural and social Sciences. A totai of 6,650 persons visitcd the study collcctions in 1956.
by Kareł Picmaus
According to the latest statistics pubLished by the Ministry of Education and Culture in June 1957, Czechoslovakia has a total of 436 museums and similar establishments throughout its territory. Nearly all of these are administered by a special department of the Ministry—only six establishments coming under other authorities. In addition, 102 of the most noteworthy of Czechosloyakia^ fortified casdcs and manors have been restored or arranged for presentation to the publie.
Although the existence of so many museums had its advantages, in that it permitted the accumulation of a large quantity of valuable materiał, it presented equally the drawback that, under these conditions, it was impossible to proceed at once to equip them with installations that conform to the principles of modern museography. It was necessary to proceed by stages, with the result that it was impossible in the meantime to use all the collections for educational purposes as we should have liked.
The number of objects contained in the natural Sciences, history, art, ethnography, numismatic and other collections amount to the substantial figurę of 14 million. Scientific workers in Czechoslovakia and abroad are thus becoming increasingly