City of Hradec Králové Remembers Visit by President Edvard Beneš












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            The Hradec Králové Faculty of Medicine in collaboration with the Museum of East Bohemia ha

            an exhibition documenting the visit of the President of Czechoslovakia Dr. Edvard Beneš an
            city of Hradec Králové. President Beneš paid an unofficial visit to the faculty 65 years a
            the Čapek celebrations in the village of Malé Svatoňovice.

            “We are happy to be able to present these unique photographs to the broad public on the oc
            the anniversary of the visit,” its organizer, PhDr. Pavel Nečas said. The exhibition, titl
            of President Edvard Beneš to the Charles University Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové,

            photographs and scans of period newspapers documenting the President’s stay in Hradec Král
            1946.

            The series of photographs were taken by Vilém Petr (1901–1970) whose father had opened a p
            in Hradec Králové at the start of the 20th century. The pictures on display were selected 
            photographic estate now owned by the Museum of East Bohemia in Hradec Králové.

            The exhibition is located on the first floor of the Faculty of Medicine building, Šimkova 
            Králové. It is open to the public Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 6 pm, and on Saturdays fr
            until April 30, 2011.
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
            The exhibition’s author, PhDr. Pavel Nečas, Ph.D., talking to the Chairman Emeritus of the
            Department of Neurosurgery of the University Hospital Hradec Králové, Prof. MUDr. Rudolf
                                                                                 
            Malec, CSc., who remembers the President’s visit and helped identify individual professors
            the photographs.                                                     
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
            Photo: J. Pecl