The Nostitz Palace hosted the ceremonial awarding of certificates for inscription into the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register. Included were the cartographic documents of P. J. Šafařík, housed in the Map Collection of the Faculty of Science at Charles University. The faculty can now proudly boast a second entry in this prestigious international list – in 2017, it succeeded with the nomination of Camocio’s maps of the Siege of Malta. The certificate was presented by Deputy Minister of Culture Mgr. Milan Němeček and received by the Dean of our Faculty, Assoc. Prof. Vladimír Krylov, Vice-Dean for the Geography Section Assoc. Prof. Luděk Šídlo, and Mgr. Mirka Tröglová Sejtková, who represented the Map Collection.
Deputy Minister of Culture Mgr.Milan Němeček, Assoc. Prof. Luděk Šídlo, Ph.D., Vice-Dean for the Geography Section, Mgr. Mirka Tröglová Sejtková, Map Collection and Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Ing. Vladimír Krylov, Ph.D.
Photo: Michal Dufek
The ceremonial presentation of the certificate for inscription into the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register took place on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in the prestigious Billiard Hall of the Nostitz Palace. Officially inscribed into this prestigious list were the cartographic documents of Pavel Josef Šafařík, which are housed in the Map Collection of the Faculty of Science at Charles University. This marks the faculty’s second entry in the register – the first was in 2017 with the collection of Camocio’s maps of the Siege of Malta.
