Open-Air Museums in Europe

Dr Jiří Langer, PhD, CSc, graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, Czech Republic. He spent 11 years in Slovakia, working at open-air museums and galleries, before working as Deputy Director of the Open-Air Museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic. He retired in 1996, and is the author of several books and numerous studies. Dr Vladimír Klíma, PhD, CSc, studied English and French at the Philological Faculty of Charles University, Czech Republic. He has translated numerous novels, short stories and plays into Czech. In the mid-to-late 1990s, he was employed by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working as the Czech Ambassador to Ghana, Togo, and Burkina Faso. He retired in 1999, though is still an active researcher.