The presented article evaluates the importance of interest groups of museum workers concerned with museology development in Austro-Hungarian empire of the early 20th century. It analyses the decisive contribution of the director of the Museum of applied arts in Brno – Julius Leisching (1865–1933) to their formation and follow-up development.
Moravian and Austrian muzeology; Julius Leisching; museums associations; cultural history of the Czech lands; German population in Moravia