Love in Nature – Valentine’s Day Special Guided Tour

Love in Nature – Valentine’s Day Special Guided Tour

📅 February 14, 2026 (Saturday)
📍 Croatian Natural History Museum
🎤 Guide: Antonio Svorenji

On this special Valentine’s Day guided tour, we explore how love, attraction, and bonding appear in nature — from the simplest organisms, through animals, all the way to humans.

Through museum exhibits, fossils, and modern scientific insights, we follow love as a driving force of evolution.

📅 Information

🗓 February 14 (Saturday)
🕒 Sessions: 11:30 AM; 1:30 PM; 3:30 PM; 5:30 PM
⏱ Duration: approx. 90 minutes
🎟 Price: €10 per person (tickets available at the museum ticket office; valid with museum admission)
👥 Limited capacity: up to 50 participants per session

❤️ Love with a View of Nature

Valentine’s Day at the museum is not a typical romantic stroll — it is a journey through love as shaped by nature: from courtship and passion, through dangerous and sometimes fatal relationships, to the chemistry of falling in love and stories preserved in fossils millions of years old.

Through this thematic tour, visitors will discover how love looks beyond human clichés — honest, raw, diverse, and fascinating.

❤️ Courtship Begins

The story begins in the animal world — with dances, colors, sounds, and rituals used to attract a mate. Some are spectacular, some subtle, and some exhausting or risky. In nature, love often means competition, display, and a great investment of energy for a single moment.

💀 When Love Becomes Dangerous

In nature, romance does not always have a happy ending for both partners. Some mating behaviors end in death, cannibalism, or extreme exhaustion. Although it may seem harsh, from an evolutionary perspective these are successful strategies for species survival.

🦴 Love Written in Stone

Fossils tell us not only about bones but also about behavior. Evidence of mating, competition for partners, and instinct-driven actions has been preserved in stone for millions of years. Love, passion, and reproduction have been driving life long before humans appeared.

🧠 The Chemistry of Falling in Love

Finally, we turn to ourselves. What happens in the body when we fall in love? What roles do hormones, the brain, and our senses play? Can love be fully explained by science, or does it always retain an element of mystery?

❤️ Love as an Evolutionary Force

The tour ends with a question: are we romantic because we are human — or because we are part of nature?

🎤 Program Coordinator

Antonio Svorenji
antonio.svorenji@hpm.hr