Abstract
The destiny of the lost and forgotten Opava's collection of Egyptian finds managed to largely reconstruct after scrutiny archive research which shed the light on circumstance of its acquisition by the Museum of Applied Arts in Opava and on its form. At the beginning, there was the encounter of the poetess Marie Stona, the vigorous woman and mettled traveller, with a man who took part in archaeological excavation conducted by the renowned English Egyptologist W.
M. Flinders Petrie.
In the course of the Second World War, these finds were lost or destroyed and the existence of Egyptian collection in Opava has been put out of mind; there have existed only scrappy references to its being.