New plaques at Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery pay tribute to staff at the city’s Jewish Museum who saved countless valuable artefacts during the Holocaust. The memorial helps mark the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the museum, one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the world.

On Thursday MPs will again discuss a government motion declaring that the Czech Parliament is opposed to a Sudeten German gathering set for Brno at the end of next week. But why has the first ever congress held by the “Landsmannschaft” in Czechia become such a heated issue? I discussed the matter with political scientist Jiří Pehe.

Filip Šír from the National Museum in Prague has spent years researching into a series of remarkable wartime broadcasts made by the much-loved Czech duo Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich.  Their satirical sketches and songs, some of them in English, were broadcast on shortwave from the United States and formed an important part of the campaign to fight Nazi propaganda and indoctrination with humour. Until recently they had been all but forgotten.

František Moravec, Jan Kubiš, Adolf Opálka and Jaroslav Krátky are well-known names to Czechs. They are paratroopers, who escaped to Great Britain where they were trained by the RAF and parachuted into occupied Czechoslovakia to fight the Nazis in WWII.  Now they are linked by a very special memorial – an alley of linden trees in the Vysočina region, south-east of Prague.

A new exhibition is currently underway at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague, marking 200 years since the birth of Vojtěch Náprstek, a remarkable 19th-century figure who was not only the founder of a museum, but also an innovator, politician and early advocate for women’s rights.

A fossil of a previously unknown arthropod species, Soomaspis labutai, has been uncovered in rubble during construction work on Prague Metro’s D line. Hidden beneath the city for nearly half a billion years, the find offers new clues about how some life forms survived Earth’s first mass extinction.

Rare archaeological finds from the era of Great Moravia, including an ivory vessel believed to have been brought to the region by Saints Cyril and Methodius, are now on display at the Archaeological Museum in Modrá in the Zlín region. The new exhibition in the site’s treasury presents some objects that have never before been exhibited.

Jewelry, weapons, manuscripts and the story of a dynasty that shaped not only Czech history – the National Museum in Prague opens what organisers describe as its biggest exhibition of the year titled The Přemyslids – A Ruling Dynasty and Its Age.

This week saw the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth II – and the launch of the Czech version of A Voyage Around the Queen, in which author Craig Brown looks at the late monarch from a multitude of perspectives. The book was translated by Michael Žantovský, a one-time Czech ambassador to London who spent time with the long-serving royal on several occasions. I spoke to him at the book’s launch at the British Embassy in Prague.

The West Bohemian city of Plzeň is preparing for its annual Freedom Celebrations, marking 81 years since its liberation by US troops at the end of World War Two. The six-day event begins next Friday, with a programme combining military history, American music, and family-friendly events.