Neanderthal Museum in Krapina

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New museum building
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal family in the Krapina Abri

The Neanderthal Museum in Krapina ( Croatian Muzej krapinskih neandertalaca ) is a museum in Krapina near Zagreb in Croatia . It deals with the prehistory and early history of mankind as well as the Neanderthals who once lived here 130,000 years ago .

Around the Abri of Krapina there has been a park for several decades in which large sculptures of Pleistocene animals and Neanderthals have been set up. A small museum was located below the demolition, on the upper floor of a building.

In 2010 - after ten years of construction - a new museum was opened not far from the site of the find , which extends over 1,200 square meters on two floors and is one of the most modern museum buildings for prehistory in Europe. The museum itself offers a guided tour in Croatian, German, French, Italian and English via an audio system. Additional reading texts are available in these and other languages. In addition to the exhibition, there is a film screen, a café and a museum shop in the museum .

The museum includes the area where the Neanderthal man was found, the bones of which were discovered in 1899. This site is one of the most important fossil remains of Neanderthals in Europe.

The prehistoric art trail with works by several artists starts and ends right at the museum.

literature

  • Jakov Radovčić, Fred H. Smith, Erik Trinkaus, and Milford H. Wolpoff : The Krapina Hominids: An Illustrated Catalog of the Skeletal Collection. Mladost Press and the Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb 1988

Web links

Commons : Neanderthal  Museum in Krapina - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Orschiedt : Introduction to Krapina. In: Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft (Ed.): 51st Annual Meeting in Ljubljana . Erlangen (PrintCom oHG) 2009, pp. 59–62 ISBN 978-3-937852-03-4 (PDF)

Coordinates: 46 ° 9 ′ 52.6 ″  N , 15 ° 51 ′ 49 ″  E