Naděžda Goryczková graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology in 1986. She worked at the National Heritage Institute’s regional office in Ostrava, from 1987 on. She became head of the Archaeology Department and later of the Filing and Documentation Unit. Following the merger of all independent heritage institutes as of 1 January 2003 into a single expert institution, namely the National Heritage Institute, Naděžda Goryczková was appointed director of the Institute’s regional office in Ostrava. In 2008, she was appointed director general of the National Heritage Institute by the minister of culture. Since then, she has been pursuing the modernisation and greater openness of the Institute. In parallel, she has been cooperating with the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava as an external lecturer since 1997. She regularly publishes articles in specialist journals, in particular regarding modern architecture and industrial heritage.