When: 24 September - 29 December 2022
Where: Dr. Pírka Clinic Garden, Na Celně 885, Mladá Boleslav III, 293 01 Mladá Boleslav
The outdoor travelling exhibition Kings of Majáles presents the history of student festivals that reflected the nature and changes of political regimes, the mood of society and the degree of emancipation of the student movement, which played an important role in many historical fractures. The exhibition presents not only the famous majales of 1956 and 1965 (Allen Ginsberg became the king of the majales), which had a distinctly protest character, but also deals with post-war majales, student festivals during the Prague Spring and the revival of the majale tradition after 1989. Using previously unpublished photographs and documents, he also describes the unofficial majales on Prague's Petřín Hill, which in 1962-1966 turned into riots and in some years also into street demonstrations. The opening of the exhibition will take place on 24 September 2022 at 3 p.m., when visitors will be guided through the exhibition by its author, historian Petr Blažek. The exhibition was jointly prepared by the Museum of Memory of the XXth Century and Museum Kampa, and was first exhibited in spring 2022 in Kampa Park. A Czech-English catalogue has been published for the exhibition and is available in the Kosmas distribution network.
For secondary schools, we have prepared materials for project lessons in history and history, which are available for download below, together with a guide for teachers.
- Materials for a history project lesson
- Materials for a project lesson in Czech literature
- Handouts for teachers