Formovanie a fungovanie Pamätných izieb v Národnej kultúrnej pamiatke Kalište pod správou Vlastivedného múzea (1962 – 1973)

In 2023, the Scientific Council of the Central Slovakia Museum approved the scientific research task called „Kalište in the collections of institutions“. The aim of the task is to compile a catalogue summarising the knowledge about the creation and development of permanent exhibitions/memorial rooms in the Kalište National Heritage Site, about the transfers of administration between different museums or institutions, and about the past and present view of its use and direction. In the first year of the scientific research task, all years were systematically examined from the preserved documents in the Registration Centre of the Central Slovakia Museum, i.e. the years 1961–1974, during which the museum was involved in any way in the creation and maintenance of the two Memorial Rooms at the national heritage site. Due to incompletely preserved documentation and to complete the whole picture, the years in question were also examined in the State Archives in Banská Bystrica (Regional National Committee and its relevant departments) and the Archives of the Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic (so far only processed and inventoried documents). The paper provides a survey of the period from 21st March 1962 to July 1973, when the Literary and Music Museum in Banská Bystrica assumed administration of both Memorial Rooms in the Kalište National Heritage Site.