Abstract
The article is based on an analysis of the chronicle of the girls' Minerva Gymnasium kept from the year 1890 (the founding of the school) until 1936. The work analyses the content of the chronicle from the perspective of the relationship between the school and town administration and categorises certain areas in which the school and the town came into contact.
Specifically, the article follows these subjects on the pages of the chronicles: the provision of space for lessons, the participation of students and school in town activities, the transformation of Minerva into a "real gymnasium", the takeover of school administration by the town in 1914, the division of the school into two separate girls' high schools in the 1920s and the construction of the new school building in the first half of the 1930s. The chronicle provides a great deal of useful information on the relationship between the gymnasium, especially its management, and town administration over the course of fifty years, during which time great changes occurred in the history of Prague and in the development of secondary education.