Press releases
12. 3. 2004

CNB’s Archive of Special Significance to be made more accessible to the public

At its meeting on 11 March 2004, the Bank Board of the Czech National Bank approved a Long-term Plan for the Development of Archive and Filing Services at the Czech National Bank, including Staffing Requirements, up to 2010.

The main benefits of this Plan are as follows:

  • the CNB's archive documents are to be made more accessible to both the professional and general public with the aid of new information technology;
  • the services offered are to be expanded;
  • the operation of the Archive as a whole is to be made more efficient, with a smaller number of professionally qualified staff.

The primary tasks of the Plan include:

  • bringing together and processing the assorted archive documents of the CNB's legal predecessors currently stored at the CNB's branches outside Prague and at its Headquarters;
  • creating an information system to support the work of the archive service; this will provide archive-processing support and facilitate detailed recording and location of archive documents and optimal use of all archive stores;
  • establishing central administration of the new archive stores at CNB Headquarters and the existing archive stores at the CNB's branches outside Prague exclusively by Headquarters archivists.

Owing to its unique position in the Czech system of public records, the CNB Archive was in 2002 conferred the status of 'Archive of Special Significance". In 2003 it became a member of the European Association for Banking History (EABH). Besides the CNB's own archive documents, it administers the archives of the CNB's legal predecessors, which occupy a shelf space of approximately 8,600 metres in length. Detailed information on the CNB Archive.

Pavlína Bolfová, CNB spokesperson