Působení Moravského zemského muzea do počátků činnosti Národní kulturní komise

Right after the liberation of Brno at the end of April 1945, the restored Czech authorities took control over the Moravian Museum and it was necessary to solve the most pressing tasks immediately, particularly protection of the damaged collections as well as securing cultural values against exporting then from the country by escaping Germans or mere. Besides solving the problems themselves, the staff of the museum had to organize very soon and watch over the protection of the collections and monuments all over Moravia. Moreover, in April 1946 the Moravian Museum was charged by the regulation of the Regional National Committee in Brno to work on inclusion of borderlands museums (mostly German) into the network of Czechoslovakian museums. In the article there are three cases of work of the Moravian Museum staff on saving the collections. Solving the situation of the collections is documented by the case of depositing museum items at the Mikulov Château, saving collections not of the Moravian Museum is depicted in the action at the Lešná Château, and the third example is the supervision over taking the former German museum in Svitavy under the Czech administration.