Exhibitions - May 2023

The Great Books of Music
May 24 - July 2, 2023

Poster - Opening ceremony

A joint exhibition of the National Library of the CR and the National Museum, which presents music manuscripts made to order of and used by Confraternities of Litterati in the period before the Battle of White Mountain. It takes place in both institutions – the display in the National Library is dedicated to the manuscripts of Prague choirs while codices from Bohemia except Prague are exhibited in the National Museum. The manuscripts, so-called graduals, hymnals, antiphonaries, and rorate chant books, were used in congregational singing by lay church choirs. Featured are rare books of large dimensions with decoration that often represents the pinnacle of the period book illustration

The Klementinum Gallery
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission free

Hello, Armenia, "Բարև Չեխիա"

Thirty Years of Diplomatic Relations between the Rebublic of Armenia and the Czech Republic
April 5 - May 16, 2023

Poster - Opening ceremony

The exhibition has been organized by the National Library of Czech Republic and the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia to the Czech Republic in association with University of Pardubice and the Czech society Slavic Union. Featured is a colorful mosaic of portraits of eminent Armenian personalities and the most beautiful natural and cultural heritage sites. Apart from photographs the display presents documents from the National Library´s collections and hitherto unpublished results of archaeological research.

Klementinum, ground floor (gate A)
Mon - Sat 9 am - 7 pm (in the NL Opening Hours) (Bank Holiday May 1st and 8th closed)
Admission to the exhibition for the NL registered users and those with a one-day Admission Ticket in the NL Opening Hours
NL readers entrance free

Against the Day
May 31 - June 11, 2023

The exhibition of the dissertation work of a student of the Studio of Free Art II (the former Studio of Painting) at Prague UMPRUM, in which the author explores the possibility of spiritual cleansing through darkness

Hall No. 101 (gate B2)
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission free

Only in Czechoslovakia  did I Feel Entirely Belarusian
April 12 - May 31, 2023

Poster – Photo gallery from the memorial meeting

The exhibition and memorial meeting on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of the Belarusian poet Larysa Henijuš (1910–1983) have been organised by the Skaryna Educational Association and the National Library of the Czech Republic – Slavonic Library.
The exhibition presents the personality and work of Larysa Henijuš, a Belarusian poet and a leading representative of the Belarusian interwar diaspora. Through a combination of panels and showcases, the exhibition outlines the key moments of the poet’s life as well as her literary work. Larysa Henijuš came to Czechoslovakia in 1937 to visit her husband, a physician. During the war, they both worked in the Belarusian Self-Help Committee, and Ms Henijuš was in charge of the archives of the Council of the Belarusian People’s Republic (the Belarusian government in exile). After the war, the Soviet authorities requested the extradition of the couple. In 1948, both were illegally deprived of Czechoslovak citizenship and were handed over to the USSR, where they spent many years in Gulag camps. Larysa Henijuš continues to be a model of civil defiance against Soviet totalitarianism and an example of the struggle for the democratic future of the Belarusian nation.
The memorial meeting was held on 12 April 2023 at 4 p.m. in the Meeting Room of the National Library of the Czech Republic.

Klementinum, 1st floor (gate A)
Mon - Sat 9 am - 7 pm (in the NL Opening Hours) (Bank Holiday May 1st and 8th closed)
Admission to the exhibition for the NL registered users and those with a one-day Admission Ticket in the NL Opening Hours
NL readers entrance free