Two Czech documentary heritage entries have been added to the UNESCO Memory of the World list: the Archive of Antonín Dvořák and the Moll Map Collection. The Archive of Antonín Dvořák contains the manuscripts of the greatest of Czech composers, his best known works, as well as his personal items, such as his letters and books. The Moll Map Collection is an atlas collected in the 1740s and 1750s by the German diplomat and cartographer Bernhard Paul Moll and includes thousands of maps of cities and landscapes as well as a number of drawings representing mines and ancient monuments. Starting this September, visitors to the Antonín Dvořák Museum in Prague will have a rare chance to see some of the valuable items from the archives. The Moravian Library in Brno also offers a digitized version of the Moll Map Collection on its website. With the newly added items, Czechia currently boasts ten entries on the UNESCO Memory of the World list.
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