VISUAL HISTORY / URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS / klementinum-slavonic-library
Klementinum: The Slavonic Library in the Baroque Complex
The Baroque former Jesuit college that has housed the Slavonic Library (founded 1924) since 1929, and today’s National Library of the Czech Republic.
The Slavonic Library was founded in 1924 (KL01, KL03), the same year the state began modernising the Klementinum building. It was moved into the Klementinum only in 1929 (KL01); where it was housed in 1924–1929 is not stated in the dossier.
The Slavonic Library operates in the Klementinum, and the National Library of the Czech Republic describes its Ukrainian emigration holdings and a working reading room (KL03, KL04). The dossier does not cover details of the present-day premises.
Analysis of spatial transformation
What changed in the urban setting
The Slavonic Library was created in 1924 and moved to the Klementinum in 1929; the complex passed to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 (KL01).
What is known about preservation
The Baroque complex is a national cultural monument (KL08). Ukrainian émigré books, periodicals and manuscripts are held in the Slavonic Library collections (KL04, KL05, KL09).
Significance for contemporary memory
The Slavonic Library collections preserve the printed heritage of Ukrainian emigration in Czechoslovakia.
More documentary evidence, primary sources and the full list of people:
Related atlas dossier (R0084) →