Photos from the Palaeontology exhibition (11. 1. - 5. 2. 2017)

, Exhibition

The palaeontological collection of the Moravian Museum contains over 250 000 fossils from more than 1000 Bohemian and Moravian sites and 850 foreign localities. There are fossils from today disappeared sites that represent the only evidence of their then existence. Type and figured material (holotypes) is an important and valuable part of the collection. Besides palaeontological and geological material, the department possesses large photo and map archives and a rare collection of palaeontological reconstructions by the academic painter Z. Burian purchased in 1875. The collection of historical lithographic teaching plates by the German professor Carl Alfred von Zittel dating to 1879 is also unique.