Exhibitions - August 2024

The Gardens of Eden, Fruit Orchards and Overgrown Gardens. Nature and Landscape in Historical and Contemporary Illustration
August 16 - September 29, 2024

What did early modern herbariums look like and what do the nicest ones look like today? The exhibition will take you through a rich book culture depicting nature and the landscape from medieval travel books and Benedictine herbal gardens through the herbariums of highly learned doctors to contemporary illustrators, who pay tribute to medieval illuminations and early modern printed illustrations. The display is a visual celebration of both the cultivated gardens and the overgrown ones, from a seed to a mountain belt, from the Middle Ages to the present.

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

Changes of the Klementinum in Photographs
August 5 - October 31, 2024

The presented photographs show the Klementinum area from the end of the 19th century to around the middle of the 20th century. They tell long-forgotten stories and remind of places that have disappeared or changed in connection with the reconstruction for the needs of the then Public and University Library.

Klementinum, Main Hall
Mon - Fri 9 am - 7 pm in the NL Opening Hours
Admission free

Vasil Bykav - 100
June 20 – August 31, 2024

Opening ceremony

The exhibition on the occasion of the 100th birthday anniversary of a Belarussian writer features his works  and their translations from the collections of the Slavonic Library, as well as original letters, photographs and personal objects.
Vasil Bykav (19. 6. 1924 – 22. 6. 2003) was and still is one of the most important and most read Belarussian writers, both in his country and abroad. For the Belarussians, he remains the great moral authority. Films, theatre plays and also a ballet were made based on his literary works. Most of his novels were translated in Czech. As an opponent of the Lukashenko´s régime, he spent the last years of his life mostly abroad. On the invitation of Václav Havel, he lived several months in Prague.
The exhibition has been organised by the Skaryna Educational Association and the National Library of the CR – Slavonic Library.

Klementinum, 1st floor (gate A)
Mon - Fri 9 am - 7 pm
Admission to the exhibition for the NL registered users and those with a one-day Admission Ticket in the NL Opening Hours