Abstract
Cooperation between museum institutions (art museums and galleries) and universities dates back to the 19th century, for example the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry (now MAK) in Vienna, where the founder of the museum, Rudolf Eitelberger von Edelberg, a native of Olomouc, the first professor of art history at the University of Vienna, lectured students directly in the museum. Thus was born the need to reunite the work of art with its original environment on a theoretical level.
Here are the two examples of successful collaboration concerning the Czech Republic: an example more distant in time and one not too far away. The first example that I report is the successful collaboration between the National Gallery of Prague and the University of Trieste on the occasion of the exhibition Treasures of Prague - Venetian painting of the '600 and' 700 from the collections in the Czech Republic, at Miramare Castle in Trieste in 1997.
The second example is the exhibition Last flowers of the Middle Ages - From the Gothic to the Renaissance in Moravia and Silesia, the contribution of the Czech Republic to the celebrations of the Jubilee 2000 in Rome and the Vatican and was implemented with the collaboration of three institutions : Palacký University of Olomouc, the Olomouc Art Museum and the National Museum of the Palace of Venice in Rome. New possibilities of collaboration are offered by the current development of digital technologies and by the rapid progress of physical and chemical research tools and methods, also found in the greater precision of technological-restorative research.
Even greater emphasis will be placed on the collaboration between the university and the museum on the occasion of the European project "Arteca", which will connect the Palacký University of Olomouc, the Art Museum of Olomouc, the Sapienza University of Rome and the Istituto Superiore for Conservation and Restoration in Rome.