“The Miocene of Northern Croatia” on Display at the Prigorje Museum

“The Miocene of Northern Croatia” on Display at the Prigorje Museum

The Miocene of Northern Croatia
Muzej Prigorja (Prigorje Museum)
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, 7 May 2019 at 7:00 PM

The travelling exhibition The Miocene of Northern Croatia from the Croatian Natural History Museum takes visitors on a journey through nearly 20 million years of the geological history of northern Croatia.

During the Miocene epoch, the area of present-day northern Croatia was covered first by the Paratethys Sea and later by Lake Pannon. These environments were shaped by dynamic biological and sedimentary processes, occasionally accompanied by volcanic activity. Evidence of this ancient past is preserved in extensive sedimentary deposits containing a rich fossil record.

The exhibition features fossils of bivalves, gastropods, algae, corals, sea urchins, crustaceans, fish, whales, sea cows, prehistoric elephants, ancient horses, insects, and numerous plant remains, including pollen, spores, leaves, trunks, and fruits of gymnosperms and flowering plants. Visitors can also explore trace fossils, which preserve evidence of the activities of ancient organisms.

The exhibition was created by Davor Vrsaljko, Sanja Japundžić, and Marija Bošnjak using specimens from the Geological and Palaeontological Collection of the Croatian Natural History Museum.

The exhibition was made possible with the financial support of the City of Zagreb and remains open to the public until 14 July 2019.