Scientific Activity
The National Technical Museum takes care of a permanent
progress in studying the field of history of sciences and
technology. It pays attention to the research related to
description and professional classification of the
collection fund in the form of collection catalogues.
Regular seminars are devoted to analytical studies of
technological development, their outcomes being published in
Treatises of National Technical Museum , Transactions of National Technical Museum
and Acta historiae rerum naturalium.
The main scientific target consists in systematic coverage
of development of technology in Bohemia and Moravia. Four
volumes of the Studies in technology in Czech lands
(NTM 1983-1986) were already published. They cover the
development from the early 19th century till creating the
independent Czechoslovak state. In the end of 1995, the
National Technical Museum published another two volumes of
Studies covering the period 1918-1945 and preparatory works
began on compiling the development of technique and
technology in the Czech lands from the end of World War II
to the dividing of Czechoslovakia in 1992. In addition to
paying their attention to domestic development, respective
Museum specialists are also studying the problems of world
development of science and technology. They publish their
works in domestic and foreign journals, are invited to
international congresses and meetings in the field of
history of science and technology, and act also as officials
in international bodies in this field.
The Museum also participates in organizing important
international meetings in the field of science and
technology, e.g. the regular symposia Agricola's followers
devoted to the development in mining or the symposium on
historical scientific instruments (1995), the symposium
Mysterium Cosmographicum 1596-1996 or 200 years of
lithography (1996).
In the Museum the Society for the History of Sciences sites since 1998 . If you are interested in, please click here and let us know.
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Jaroslav Folta , iso@ntm.anet.cz