Centre for Cultural Anthropology

Address

Pisárecká 5
602 00 Brno

tel.: +420 515 910 560

Acting Head

doc. Mgr. Zdeňka Nerudová, Ph.D. - research and development specialist; curator of collections and movable heritage funds; archaeologist specialized in the Paleolithic era; Editor-in-Chief of the Anthropologie journal (http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/)
tel.: +420 533 435 227, +420 732 648 106, e-mail: znerudova@mzm.cz

Profiles for Zdeňka Nerudová:

Profile page for doc. Mgr. Zdeňka Nerudová, Ph.D.
 

Employees

  • Mgr. Eva Vaníčková - curator of collections and movable heritage funds, coordinator for cultural and educational activities, anthropologist, Laboratory of anthropological reconstruction (LAR)
    tel.: +420 515 910 564, e-mail: evanickova@mzm.cz
     
  • Mgr. Martina Galetová, Ph.D. - research and development specialist
    tel.: +420 515 910 448, e-mail: mgaletova@mzm.cz
     
  • Mgr. Ivan Koutný - curator of collections and movable heritage funds, lecturer
    tel.: +420 515 910 563, e-mail: ikoutny@mzm.cz
     

Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction (LAR)

  • Presents the wealth of significant anthropological finds from museum collections to the general and professional public, using three-dimensional models of human appearance, created in a highly engaging museological format. More at lar-art.com.
     

Digital Catalogue of Photographs from the Estate of Karel Absolon

  • Documentation, digitization, scholarly processing, and presentation of the collection of photographic positives and glass plate negatives, from the estate of Prof. Karel Absolon. Housed in the Moravian Museum in Brno, under project ID: DE07P04OMG021. This presentation was developed as part of the VaVal project, funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Access the digital catalogue.
     

Department Overview

  • The Centre for Cultural Anthropology (CKA), established in January 2016, seamlessly builds on the exhibition and academic work of the former Anthropos Pavilion department, collaborating closely with the Anthropos Institute’s interdisciplinary research on prehistoric populations. The CKA makes use of non-European ethnological collections and cooperates with cultural heritage and research institutions across Czech Republic and internationally. CKA’s current international initiatives include ambitious thematic projects on Neanderthals, Thracian civilization, and Aboriginal Australian art, among others. Main research outputs focus on the archaeological analysis of curated collections; 3D anthropological reconstructions of prehistoric humans and ancestors (Neanderthals); archival studies on Moravian archaeology within a pan-European context. Together with the Anthropos Institute, the CKA co-publishes the journal Anthropologie (official website) and participates in numerous field research projects and initiatives.
     

Short-Term Exhibitions

  • Face of the Past (Archaeopark Pavlov, 1 April - 28 May 2023)
    This exhibition introduces visitors to the modern facial reconstruction techniques, developed since 2016 by anthropologist Eva Vaníčková and sculptor Ondřej Bílek within the Moravian Museum. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Moravian Museum, the Laboratory of Anthropological Reconstruction (Centre for Cultural Anthropology, MZM), Archeopark Pavlov, the initiative How to Dress a Protohuman Society, and the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
     

Permanent Exhibitions

Conferences and other Events

  • Conference III: History of Archaeology in the Czech Lands and Slovakia. In occasion of the 100th anniversary of the German Society for Prehistory and Early History in Czechoslovakia (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in der Tschechoslowakei) in 2024. Download invitation here, conference programme here.
     

Karel Absolon: Explorer, Manager, Scientist

In 2021, the Moravian Museum commemorated the 144th anniversary of Karel Absolon’s birth (June 16, 1877 - October 6, 1960), with the official launch of the book Karel Absolon: Explorer, Manager, Scientist by Petr Zajíček, Martin Oliva and Petr Kostrhun. The year has come and gone and on Absolon’s 145th birth, the book received its first major award. On Friday June 10, 2022, it was awarded the Miroslav Ivanov Prize for Non-Fiction literature. Read more.
 

Rembaranka Expedition

Recovery of lost unique footage of Australian Aboriginals

"In Search of the Stone Age People" was a successful documentary filmed during the 1969 Moravian Museum's expedition among Australian Aboriginals. The rare footage was lost for decades. Now, a new documentary has been created from the original archive materials.

Czech Television Archives: Rembaranka Expedition, 1969 (ceskatelevize.cz)
 

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