March to May 2023
Several working and preparatory meetings were held during this period. Apart from the meetings, on 27 March 2023 at the Ústí nad Labem City Archives, Zdeněk Petr and Petr Karlíček met to refine and complete the documents for the presentation that Zdeněk Petr gave on 4 April 2023 at the meeting of the Council of the North Bohemian Association of Municipalities (SeSO), which took place in the meeting room of the Ústí nad Labem City Hall.
On 11 April 2023, Petr Karlíček, Martin Krsek, and Zdeněk Petr visited KD Rýdeč to discuss the possibilities of MUZOOS, the project's viability, and its sustainability. Martin Krsek’s perspective was particularly valuable, both as a politician from Ústí nad Labem and as an employee of the Ústí nad Labem City Museum.
The following day, 12 April 2023, after prior agreement, a meeting took place at the headquarters of 3+1 Architects Ltd. between Zdeněk Petr and architect Pavel Plánička, who is also the managing director of the company. The goal was to engage a well-established and reputable architectural office in Ústí nad Labem for the preparation of an initial study, which would serve to assess potential solutions and facilitate discussions with the relevant state administration authorities. As the MUZOOS concept gained interest, on 17 April, 3+1 Architects submitted a quotation for the preparation of the study, which, if approved, would be funded by the municipality of Malečov.
On 31 May 2023, a meeting of the Malečov Municipal Council and councillors took place in the Rýdeč Community Hall, where Zdeněk Petr presented the MUZOOS project. The subsequent vote clearly supported the project.
At the end of April, cooperation was established with the Department of Spatial Planning of the Regional Office of the Ústí nad Labem Region for the creation of a map of extinct villages, settlements, and isolated places within the area defined by the boundary of the České středohoří Protected Landscape Area.
June 2023
On 7 June 2023, the MUZOOS map was launched. On the same day, a meeting was held at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts, UJEP, facilitated by Petr Hrubý, Director of the National Institute of Natural Heritage ÚOP Ústí nad Labem, with the aim of securing professional support for the MUZOOS project. The meeting was attended by: Petr Hrubý, Jakub Pátek (Deputy Head of the Department), Táňa Šimková (Head of the Centre for Documentation and Digitization of Cultural Heritage), and Zdeněk Petr. Discussions included potential collaboration and the involvement of students in the research aspects of the project.
On 14 June 2023, the Malečov Municipal Council approved the price offer for the study by 3+1 Architects by resolution.
On 23 June 2023, a meeting was held at the Department of History of the Faculty of Arts of UJEP, attended by Jakub Pátek, Kamil Podroužek (Deputy Head of the Documentation Centre), Martin Krsek, and Zdeněk Petr to clarify the possibilities of collaboration on the MUZOOS project. On 25 June 2023, Zdeněk Petr met in Malečov with Petr Novák, Head of the Department of Geoinformatics at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, UJEP, to discuss potential cooperation in developing the MUZOOS project. Additionally, contact was established with Jiří Riezner from the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Science, UJEP, with the understanding that a meeting between Riezner and Petr would take place in the second half of August 2023. Jiří Riezner expressed interest in collaboration, including the possibility of involving students in the research aspects of the project.
