Central government agency for courts, prosecution and prisons. Manages the commercial register, the insolvency register and the register of bankrupts. The archive provides pre-archival care and shredding procedures within its area of competence, processes, registers and makes available archival material.

Operation of the archive.

Providing administration of historical written archives. We focus on the history of Czech art of the 19th and 20th centuries, including a collection of drawings and prints from the late 18th century to the present.

Collecting and processing the records of the Academy of Sciences, the archival holdings of previous scientific institutions and the written estates of scientists.

Processing, preservation and use of archival materials.

We operate the archive of Czech Television. There is a video library, a film library, a phonotheque, a news archive and documentation or a CT file archive. We provide digitisation of programme funds.

Supervision of the performance of the filing service at the departments under the control of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

We manage the collections, holdings and archives of the Jewish Museum. The archives contain the records of individual Jewish religious communities in Bohemia and Moravia.

The archive is a traditional memory institution that receives, permanently preserves, professionally processes and makes available the documents of all Czechoslovak and Czech presidents and their office since 1918.

The Prague Castle Archive at the Office of the President of the Republic was established in 1920. The department concentrates written material and documentation relating to the Castle, its history, research, construction, repair and maintenance. The basis is made up of historical documents that originated from the activities of the offices administering Prague Castle.

The specialised archive focuses on the results of surveying and cartographic work. We offer for study map works based on Austrian military mapping from the end of the 19th century and a large collection of German topographical and military maps and more. Archival collections are also available.

The Department of Archive Administration and File Service is responsible for the Ministry of the Interior in the field of archives.