Erik/a – The Woolly Rhinoceros
Gradski muzej Varaždin
Palača Herzer, Franjevački trg 10,
26. 8. 2020. – 28. 2. 2021.
Otvorenje: srijeda, 26. 8. 2020. u 19 sati
The exhibition is the result of a long-standing collaboration between the Varaždin City Museum and the Croatian Museum of Natural History, which began decades ago with the discovery of fossil remains of a woolly rhinoceros in the area of Mali Segečak.
It features the best-preserved woolly rhinoceros skeleton in Croatia, approximately 20,000 years old, on which extensive and demanding conservation and restoration work has been carried out in order to ensure its long-term preservation and public presentation—first through this exhibition, and later as part of a future permanent display.
The project Erik/a – The Woolly Rhinoceros aims to bring to life the museum story of this exceptional paleontological find through a multidisciplinary approach. It includes the presentation of its discovery and preservation, as well as a reconstruction of the plant and animal world of the Late Pleistocene using modern technology and relevant fossil material, with the skeleton of the woolly rhinoceros as the central exhibit.
This is one of the most important projects of the Varaždin City Museum in recent years, realized with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Varaždin.