„ARCHIV MUSEA KRÁLOVSTVÍ ČESKÉHO ARCHIVEM NENÍ…“ POKUS O ZRUŠENÍ ARCHIVU NM V LETECH 1919–1920
„THE ARCHIVE OF THE MUSEUM OF KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA IS NO ARCHIVE.“ AN ATTEMPT TO DISSOLVE THE ARCHIVE OF NATIONAL MUSEUM IN 1919–1920

Summary/Abstract: The Archive of National Museum was established as an independent department in 1846 and since then it administered many valuable and interesting archival documents, organised at that time mostly according to the pertinence principle. In the time of the first Czechoslovak Republic the archive had to deal, as well as other departments, with many difficulties: lack of room, lack of materials and lack of personnel, since it had only one employee, Václav Hrubý. In the end, he suggested, together with the director of the Land Archives of Bohemia J. B. Novák, to merge the archive into the Land Archives. The most important argument was a consistent application of the principle of provenience and, therefore, fusion of the illogically divided archival units (e. g. Land Registries). While the representatives of the muse-um administration and the respective ministry had no objection to this plan, it fell through because of the decision of the National Museum Society that understood this step as a serious breach of Society statues stipulating the inalienability of all collections. The merge of both archives finally took place only a few decades later, in the time of Protectorate, and merely provisionally.

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