Prirodoslovni muzej Slovenije
Prešernova 20, SI-1000 Ljubljana
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| − | Along with the [[National Museum of Slovenia]], which is located in the same building, the [[Museum of Natural History of Slovenia]] is Slovenia’s oldest cultural and scientific institution, originating as the Provincial Museum of Carniola, which was established in 1821 and became the National Museum in 1921. The museum, located in the town centre of Ljubljana near | + | Along with the [[National Museum of Slovenia]], which is located in the same building, the [[Museum of Natural History of Slovenia]] is Slovenia’s oldest cultural and scientific institution, originating as the Provincial Museum of Carniola, which was established in 1821 and became the National Museum in 1921. The museum, located in the town centre of Ljubljana near Tivoli Park, gained from the Austrian government at the establishment the Žiga Zois collection of books and minerals, the Ferdinand Schmidt collection of insects and the count Hohenwart collection of mollusc shells. It has a dislocated unit the Alpine Botanical Garden Juliana in Trenta. |
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History
In 1944 the national history collections of the National Museum were separated to become the Museum of Natural Sciences. The museum was renamed Museum of Natural History of Slovenia in 1992. Because the museum is overcrowded, a new museum building is planed to be built in the Biology Center in Ljubljana in next years.
Rudolfinum
The building Rudolfinum, housing the Museum of Natural History of Slovenia and the National Museum of Slovenia, was built in 1883–1885 by Wiener architect Wilhelm Resori and realised by Ljubljana architect Viljem Treo, while the inside equipment was designed by Jan Vladimir Hrasky. The building is named after crown Prince Rudolf.
Rudolfinum has a spatial park in front of the main Neo Renaissance façade, structured with the main projection with Ionic columns in the upper part and with allegoric statues of Courage and Kranjska, holding the coat of arms, at the roof. In front of the projection stand four allegoric statues presenting Art, History, Natural Sciences and Labour.
The building encloses an atrium together with its two wings. The ceiling paintings are art work by Jurij and Janez Šubic dating in 1885, while main staircase is decorated with lying statues made by Graz sculptor Viet Koeniger, which were removed from the Novo Celje Castle after the Second World War. The atrium was rearranged into the exhibition venue, constructing a glass roof, in 1986–1991 by architect Marko Mušič.
Programme
With its important geological-paleontological, botanical and geological collections, the Museum of Natural History of Slovenia functions as both a research institution (terrain work on study collections) and as a showroom for national, European and worldwide collections which demonstrate changes in biodiversity, the development of natural history thought and the different techniques of collection and preparation of samples. The Museum has its own library.
Collections
The Museum's geological-paleontological collections include fossils from various Slovene sites, including an almost complete c 20,000 year-old mammoth skeleton found at Nevlje near Kamnik. Also of significance are a 210 million year-old 84 centimetre-long fish skeleton found in the Triglav Mountains and a Miocene-era baleen whale skeleton found in Slovenske Gorice.
One of the museum’s founding collections was Baron Sigmund Zois's mineral collection. Minerals are classified by modern methods according to their internal structure, and among them is the mineral zoisite, named after Zois. There are also two Biedermaier wooden tables that are covered by tiles from Palnstorf's collection of minerals and rocks.
Hohenwart's collection of mollusc shells comprises about 5,000 specimens, dating from 1831 and originating mainly from the Indo-Pacific. The insect collection of Ferdinand J Schmidt includes several interesting specimens, notably the ‘narrow-necked’ blind cave beetles (Leptodirus hochenwartii) that were described in 1831 as the first cave insect. The plants and animals of the mountains, marshes, and woods are shown in specialised dioramas. Also on view are permanent bird, reptile, fish, mammal and skeleton collections.
The Slovenian Wildlife Sound Archive is a collection of animal sounds, mainly on Heteroptera and Cicadas, stored on digital and analogue recording media.
Exhibitions
Beside permanent exhibitions the temporary are staged regularly; past exhibitions have included Evolution of the Earth and the Geology of Slovenia (2009), which authors Miha Jeršek, Matija Križnar and Renato Vidrih have received the recognition Prometej znanosti for excellence in communicating science in 2009, given by the Slovene Science Foundation.
Some other temporary exhibitions were: What is changing the world (2006), The Treasury of Geological Heritage (2003), Snakes – Why are We Afraid of Them? (2002), Ljubljana Marsh and Iška (2001), The Mammoth in Herman’s Den (2000), Slovene Nature, Istria and Carst, Diversity of Minerals (2000) and Hidden Treasures of Macedonia (1999).
International cooperation
The Museum is currently participating in various research programmes in cooperation with overseas institutions such as the National Museum Prague, Prirodonaučen muzej na Makedonija, Natural History Museum in London, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien and the Natural History Museum of the Netherlands, as well as in bilateral cooperation with museums in Prague and Croatia.
In recent years the Museum has organised a European hemipterologic congress in Fiesa and has participated in the 'Role and Importance of Natural History Museums and Natural History Collections for Sustainable Development', symposium in Rijeka, Croatia. The museum is currently involved in the European BioCASE project and in the European Union for Bird Ringing (EURING). It participates in a project International Year 2010 of Biodiversity.
Publications
It publishes serial publications Scopolia, Acta entomologica Slovenica in cooperation with the Slovenian Entomological Society Štefan Michiel, and Illiesia, International Journal of Stonefly Research with co-publisher the Mississippi College, which is freely available on the world wide web. The temporary exhibitions are accompanied with catalogues. There are also some audio media of animal sound, as an educational instrument for recognising different specimens of frogs, birds, cicadas and others.
See also
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