STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1865, sig. 109-5/93

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51 - 7 - a new museum building should be built. Also, everywhere in the museum it was possible to find out that apparently the director is not enough in any way. The order was given that the still defective and sometimes unsustainable inscriptions were quickly removed against rectified. In addition, a museum committee is to be set up, to which Germans will also belong, and which is finally to strive for one thing, that this museum, together with its valuable treasures, should be brought closer to the general public's consciousness and thus become a truly cultural educational place. As soon as I succeed in winning a first-class German Dachmann, order is to be made here, just as in the city archive. After the reconstruction work in the Old Town Hall has been completed to a large extent, the purpose of the exposed rooms will become particularly urgent. I have already reported on previous occasions that we Germans alone can combine a living purpose with these spaces and that, therefore, the idea of establishing a museum here disappears for us. At our initiative, an alternative project has therefore been developed in the event that a representative town hall would be set up here.These projects also expect a large food restoration, which would be accessible from the Kleiner Ring, and which is primarily intended to provide the municipal employees and officials with a welcome tasting opportunity in the case of an extension of the working time to 8 hours. In order to examine all these questions and, above all, the nature of the restoration by the Czechs, the