Národní muzeum jako vydavatel periodik v letech 1918–1993

The publishing activity has been one of the important tasks of the National Museum since 1827, the year of the Journal of the National Museum’s (Časopis Národního muzea) publication. The text describes the development of the Museum’s publishing activities and covers their most significant features, such as working with internal and external authors, censorship, the internal mechanisms of publishing institute for specialized journals (the functioning of the editorial boards and the influence of the editors’ personalities) at the National Museum and problems related with the journals’ distribution to both the Czech, and foreign public. Attention is also paid to the technical difficulties involved in securing printing and sales of the museum’s periodicals.