On 29 November 2023, the Board of Directors of the Museum of the Memory of the XXth Century, z. ú., appointed Petr Blažek, PhD, to the position of Director of the Museum, effective 1 December 2023. His mandate is limited until a new Director is selected in a regular selection procedure. The appointment of Petr Blažek as Director was endorsed by the Supervisory Board on 4 December 2023. The changes in the management of the Museum were subsequently entered in the Register of Institutes, file number U 837, kept at the Municipal Court in Prague.
The historian Petr Blažek was involved in the founding of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century, from November 2019 to March 2022, he was a member of its board of directors and then served as head of the museum's history department.