SPITSBERGEN IN PHOTOGRAPHS OF PETR WOLF
Photographs from the archives of the short film cameraman of the Czech Television P.
Wolf made during expeditions to the archipelago Spitsbergen in 1985-88. The photographs
are accompanied with short texts by the author on the context, the facts, the arctic
explorers, the bears and Soviet ambitions.
The author Petr Wolf, a short film cameraman of the Czech TV, took part in several
expeditions to the Spitsbergen in 1985-88, together with Milan Maryška. The photographs
he had made there were converted into digital form and restaured. They were shown in an
independent exhibition in 2009 in Jičín. The Moravian Museum presents a selection of them. From January 13 to March 23, 2010
TRANSFORMATIONS
The exhibition presents an openly gender oriented look at the creation of contemporary
Czech theatre female designers. In a restreint space scenic, costume und puppet designs
of twolf women are presented whose domain the not long ago exclusive male discipline is - the scenography. From Novebmer 20, 2009 to March 13, 2010
NEW ACQUISITIONS IN THE MINERALOGY STOREROOM
The wealth of Moravian and Silesian minerals has been attracting the interest of collectors,
mineralogists and museum curators for several decades. The large permanent exhibition
"World of Minerals" showing minerals and rocks from the collections of the Department of
mineralogy and petrography at the Moravian Museum contains many impressive mineral specimens
from Czech and worldwide sites. Inspite of that, most minerals stay quasi permanently hidden
in the museum stores.
This year, the curators of the Department of mineralogy and petrography have decided to exhibit
minerals acquired during the last 15 years as donations, purchase and through their own collecting
activities. This time, minerals from the Czech Republic als well as those from all over the world are on display. From January 26, 2010 - 1/2011 in the anteroom of the permanent exhibition "World of Minerals"
THE BISHOP'S COURTYARD
BEAUTIES OF THE TROPICS
The exhibition shows the fauna of the tropical zones worldwide.
It is structured according to four zoological-geographical regions:
Australia, Ethiopia, Neotropics and Indo-Malaisia. The exhibition on
wall boards is complemented with drawings of tropical animals by the painter and illustrator Jan Dungel. From December 6, 2009 to June 26, 2010
THE ANTHROPOS PAVILION
ROCK ART AND LIFE OF NOMADS IN CENTRAL ASIA IN PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAVEL LISÝ
The exhibition of the photographer and globetrotter Pavel Lisý (*1960) shows the unknown
world of the oldest art in Central Asia. Petroglyphs - stone engravings of human figures,
animals and other complicated pictures (hunting scenes, ritual dances, sun cult, erotic scenes...)
date back to the Late Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (3000-1000 B.P.). From February 17, 2010 to Mai 16, 2010
FUNCTIONALITY AND AESTHETICS OF STONE TOOLS
In a small informative exhibition, the visitors get acquainted with the exacting
fabrication and practical use of one of the most famous palaeolithic tools - a leaf point. From June 9, 2009 to 2011
DARWIN
The exhibition project reminds of the 200th anniversary of the brilliant natural scientist
and author of the evolution theory as well as of the 150th anniversary of the publication of
his famous work On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. The exhibition aims
to present Darwin's personality, his life story, his predecessors and successors, admirers
and opponents. Movie projections and a cycle of lectures accompany the exhibition. Numerous
activities are prepared for schools. The exhibition is one of the cultural projects implemented
in the frame of the Czech EU Presidency 2009. From May 8, 2009 to March 14, 2010 Main media partner of the exhibition: Media partner of the exhibition:
INSTITUTE OF ETHNOGRAPHY
JOSEF ŠÍMA - COLLECTOR, DRAUGHTSMAN AND PHOTOGRAPHER
The exhibition presents one of the founders of Czech ethnography - Josef Šíma.
The core of the exhibition consists of photographs of folk costumes as antipole of genre
photographs from private life of the Šíma family. The display is complemented with embroideries
that Šíma was interested in during his whole life. From December 2, 2009 to May 15, 2010
MORAVIAN CROATIANS THROUGHT THE LENS OF OTHMAR RUZICKA
Traditional clothes in the early 20th century. The exhibition shows the collection
of photographs from the beginning of the 20th century. Their author is the painter and
a native of Vienna Othmar Ruzicka, wo used them as model for his paintings. They show
the life of the inhabitants of a formerly Chroatian village Jevišovka (originaly Frélichov)
in the region of Mikulov in a period when men, women and children still wore traditional
everyday and festive costumes. The photographs are complemented with selected parts of
the traditional costume dating back to the second half of the 19th century. From October 14, 2009 to May 15, 2010
A YEAR IN FOLK CUSTOMS AND FESTIVITIES
The exhibition shows traditional folk customs connected with various holidays and
important days of the whole calendar year. Most of the ceremonial objects comming
from the collections of the Moravian Museum are on display for the very first time. From October 7, 2009 to May 29, 2010
MENDELIANUM
CODE FOR LIFE VARIETY
The exhibition shows several mutually overlapping levels of the problem of evolution
from the simplest living structures to the important aspects of the cultural diversity
of human societies. It is divided in several thematic parts and complemented with a
unique collection of fossils documenting extinct species of flora and fauna.
