Exports of Items of Cultural Value
Pursuant the Act No.71/1994, each item of cultural value
should, when it is exported out of the Czech Republic, be
accompanied with a particular certificate that is issued to
applicants by museums and galleries authorized by the
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The National
Technical Museum is authorized to issue these certificates
for objects from the field of science and technology.
The following items are regarded as objects of cultural
value in the field of science and technology that should be
accompanied with a particular certificate for export:
- clocks, astronomical clocks, time-measuring devices, etc.
older than 50 years and of the price higher than 10,000 Kc
- watches older than 70 years
- scientific and technical instruments and equipment older
than 100 years
- historical transportation means (carriages, coaches, sedan
chairs, sledges, accessories, etc.) older than 50 years
- motor and motorless one-track road vehicles older than 40
years
- other motor and motorless road vehicles older than 40
years
- railway and other rail vehicles older than 40 years
- motor and motorless planes and ships older than 40 years
- photographic and cinematographic technique older than 50
years, with the price higher than 10,000 Kc
- equipment for recording, transmission and reproduction of
sound, data and information older than 40 years, with
the price higher than 5,000 Kc
The applicant submits the application for issuing the
certificate to the National Technical Museum on prescribed
forms in four copies for each object.
The applicant should fill in each of the four forms of the
certificate by typing or in block
letters in compliance with instructions on the form and
should attach 2 pictures of the object in question of
dimensions 8x12 cm (front and rear views, or side views in
case of motorcycles and front-side and back-side view in
case of two-track transport vehicles) and he shall attach
one counterpart of a court expert opinion (identification of
the object, not an appraisal).
In order to facilitate the proceeding to the applicants the
National Technical Museum deals the applications by mail
while maintaining all above mentioned instructions. The
applications can be mailed by a registered letter to the
address National Technical Museum, Department of Exports,
Kostelni 42, 170 78, Praha 7. The National Technical Museum
shall deal with the applications within a legal term of 30
days and send them C.O.D. to the applicants against a legal
fee 500,- Kc + p.p.
Petr Kozisek , iso@ntm.anet.cz