As part of her research on the Czech traveller through the Croatian lands, Count Franz Joseph Kinsky (1739–1805), principal investigator Dr Teodora Shek Brnardić spent a week exploring archival materials relating to the Kinsky family in Prague and Zámrsk.
At the National Archives in Prague (Národní archiv), she consulted documents from the Czech Chancellery, uncovering records on inheritance within the Kinsky family. At the State Regional Archive in Zámrsk (Archivní oddělení Zámrsk), housed in a picturesque chateau around 130 km east of Prague, she had the rare opportunity to access the Kinsky family archive of the Chlumec nad Cidlinou branch, which is usually not open to the public.
The archival research was rounded off with a visit to the National Library in Prague, where she accessed recent Czech literature on Enlightenment studies, and purchased several books for the project’s needs.
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