Museum Night 2019
Museum Night 2019 – Innovations and the Digital Future
1 February 2019
Opening hours: 18:00 – 01:00
FREE ADMISSION
Event programme
Exhibition Mosquitoes – the Deadliest Animals on Earth
Valuable mosquito collections in the Republic of Croatia are presented, along with important biological characteristics of this significant vector group and the life cycle of mosquitoes in an aquarium, so that visitors can become familiar with the morphology of their developmental stages.
The exhibition presents invasive mosquito species, the ways in which they are introduced, and their strong vector potential. Numerous methods of mosquito control in Croatia are also shown, across different developmental stages.
In terms of presentation, the exhibition is enriched with holographic display technology, which has proven to be an excellent method for visualizing these tiny organisms.
Exhibition Coral Retrieved from the Sea
The aim of the exhibition is to present the natural history characteristics of corals, taking into account their structure, way of life, systematics, distribution and endangered status, while also adding numerous curiosities, legends, myths, beliefs and the artistic experience of corals.
In order to present the beauty, importance and value of corals as comprehensively as possible, the exhibition also presents objects from other museum institutions, showing the presence of corals in different segments of life from almost the very beginnings of civilization to the present day.
Presentation of the new Croatian Natural History Museum
What awaits us in 2022?
An additional 2600 m2 of space
Exhibition space in the underground annex on Tuškanac
Covered atrium
Large exhibits: dinosaur replicas, whale skeleton, Zagreb whale skeleton, dolphin model
Souvenir shop
Museum catering facility
Multimedia hall
Presentation of museum digital projects
Virtual Herbarium
Take a look into the digital herbarium and discover the floristic richness and diversity of our extensive herbarium collection of the Botanical Department.
e-Turtle
The smart-device application is intended for collecting information about observations of sea turtles in nature. It is currently available for Android OS and can be downloaded from the Play Store.
Sea turtles are globally endangered and everyone can help protect them. Join our citizen science programme, report your observations and see what others have reported.
Your reports will help us identify threats and areas of interaction with sea turtles, helping to create better measures for their conservation. With your support, we want to ensure a better and safer future for our sea turtles!
Interactive DNA Info Desk
A virtual exhibition about the DNA molecule and molecular genetic research at the Museum. The application of new technologies in clarifying issues related to the Museum’s historical evolutionary research.
Mysterious Earth
An interactive info desk where you can learn everything about planet Earth, the Solar System, minerals, rocks, fossils, dinosaurs…
Interactive Info Desk of the Mineralogical Display
Read interesting facts from the permanent display of the Mineralogical-Petrographic Department.
MendTheGap Project Exhibition
The MendTheGap project represents an innovative opportunity to bridge the gap in certain research capacities in Croatia in the fields of archaeology, genetics and other sciences of the past.
The project takes advantage of specific location-related strengths arising from two important facts.
First, Croatia contains a large number of archaeological sites and valuable material that is relatively under-researched and insufficiently economically utilized.
Second, Croatia has a group of researchers, conceptually and strategically united in the CrEAMA Initiative, whose scientific research capacities, influence and success in obtaining EU projects have not been fully realized due to insufficient funding, coordination and strategic planning.
With the help of world-renowned scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Pisa, our ultimate vision is to build a research group, the CrEAMA Initiative, capable of thinking about the sciences of the past at a multi-inter-transdisciplinary level.
Our assumption is that the ability to think about the sciences of the past in this way can provide significant innovative strength and contribute to solving many contemporary questions and problems.
Sale of museum publications and souvenirs
HPM Shop – sale of museum publications and souvenirs at promotional prices.