Hello everybody, as the Radio Free Europe announced yesterday Mr. Ivan Hudec the minister of culture, member of prime minister Meciar's cabinet is forcing the director of the Slovak National Museum, dr. Maraky, to agree to make over the store-room for musical instruments collection placed in the village Dolna Krupa, cca 90 km from Bratislava, to another body which is (so they say) part of private company owned by minister's brother. The collection is life-long work of dr. Ivan Macak, former director of the Musical Museum of the Slovak National Museum and well-known specialist. I would like to emphasize that in Slovakia there is no other store room available which would answer the demands of a safe, conditioned storage of the collection. What is really strange and curious, a huge part of the collection is a collection of Slovak folk music instruments, which is irreplaceable and unique. No other collection compares to it in Slovakia. I would like to ask you to write to the minister in order to support Slovak National Museum's efforts to change his decesion. The e-mail address of the Slovak ministry of culture is [log in to unmask] Thank you very much for your help. Krasimir Damjanov UNESCO ISSOM Brno mailto: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Thanks