The exhibition features the fate of women´s religious communities in Bohemia abolished in 1782 by the reform of Joseph II.
The exhibition features the fate of women´s religious communities in Bohemia abolished in 1782 by the reform of Joseph II. Although part of their buildings have disappeared, the spiritual and cultural heritage of many of them survive – in manuscripts, printed books and documents that were then transported to the Klementinum.
The exhibition is also focused on religious life and fate of the monasteries and communities after their dissolution. Emphasis is laid on the libraries of selected religious houses, with the most notable being the rich library of the Benedictine women´s monastery of St. George at Prague Castle, whose preserved manuscripts are among the main exhibits of the exhibition, as well as the libraries of the Premonstratentian sisters in Chotěšov, the Cistercian nunnery in Pohled, the Dominican sisters of St. Anne, the Poor Clares in Cheb and Český Krumlov, and the Carmelite Sisters in Prague.