Hrdlička Museum of Humanity introduces evening tours












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            Don’t want to stand in a queue for the Charles University Museum of Humanity during Prague

            You don’t have to. Lecturers from the museum will now lead you through the displays after 
            first Wednesday in the month.
            Hrdlička Museum of Mankind open to the public from Wednesday to Friday

            “The museum has a very interesting – I would say mysterious – atmosphere. It’s worth visit
            other than during the Museum Night. Visitors are accompanied on evening tours by experienc
            who explain the exhibits and why a particular object is on display in the museum,” says ex

            Marco Stella.
            Evening tours of the museum usually take place on every first Wednesday of the month. Howe

            state holidays, in May this will not take place until the third Wednesday. The museum is o
            from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Wednesday to Friday. However, according to Marco Stella, anyo
            always try ‘having a peek’ outside the official opening hours, as there is usually a lectu

            can show any visitors round the exhibits.
            Visitors to the museum, which is devoted to the history of humanity and is named after its
            world-famous anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička, can see a number of rarities, the biggest of wh

            museum’s collection of Egyptian mummies. “They’re around 3,300 years old, dating from the 
            Kingdom period, during the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamen. They are most probably the bodies
            artists who worked on the royal tombs in the Valley of Kings,” said Stella, describing one

            rarities in the museum’s collection.
            “A further valuable exhibit is the collection of trepanned skulls (trepanning is the surgi
            skulls, a treatment dating back to prehistory – ed.), a truly unique, but little-known, ex

            of the most comprehensive collections in the Czech Republic,” he added.
            Museum employees have also prepared a number of special events, with new weekend workshops
            intended for children. School groups can also take part in the forensic anthropology works

            inviting title Become a Bone Collector, where children learn how to assemble a human skele
            various features on it.
            ??Evening tours have highly unusual atmosphere

            “Our Footprints and Shapes workshop, which is about the various techniques for the casting
            footprints etc., is also very popular. Both of these workshops are run to order for either
            educational purposes or for any group of around ten people,” added Stella.

            The Cave Art workshop is intended for children with a gift for art. Once they have learnt 
            about prehistoric cave paintings, they try to produce some themselves. “During this course
            transformed into a cave, where children can paint all sorts of pictures. The skill shown b

            year-old children is quite surprising, reaching the level of the Palaeolithic masters,” sm
            also noting that the museum runs another course, devoted to the art of detection. Course p
            how to use a microscope, take records of and compare fingerprints, as well as learning abo

            trichology, or the study of hair.
            Become a Bone Collector workshop very popular with children
            Apart from this, the museum’s team of employees is also preparing a number of weekend cour

            wider public. Originally intended for children, adults enjoyed the courses, too. Participa
            the Service of the Pharaoh workshop learn how to read some hieroglyphics, learn something 
            mummification or create their own servant for the world beyond.

            Workshops cost between 80 and 300 crowns. For further information and conditions of regist
            see the Facebook page of the Hrdlička Museum of Humanity.
            „Velmi populární je také workshop Stopy a odlitky, který je o nejrůznějších technikách odl

            atd. Oba tyto workshopy pořádáme na objednávku buď pro školy v rámci výuky, nebo pro jakék
            zhruba o deseti lidech,“ podotkl Marco Stella.
            Workshop Umění v jeskyni je zase určen dětem s výtvarným nadáním. Poté, co se dozví něco o

            jeskynních malbách, zkusí si je také namalovat. „Při tomto kurzu muzeum přeměňujeme v jesk
            děti mohou malovat nejrůznější obrazce. Překvapuje mě, jak šikovné jsou už i pěti až šesti
            uměním se dotahují až na paleolitické mistry,“ usmíval se Marco Stella a upozornil na dalš

            věnovaný umění detektivnímu. Jeho účastníci se v něm naučí pracovat s mikroskopem, snímat 
            otisky prstů a seznámí se také se základy trichologie, tedy nauky o vlasovém vláknu.
            Vedle toho tým pracovníků muzea nově připravuje množství víkendových kurzů pro širokou veř

            byly určeny dětem, ukázalo se však, že baví i dospělé. Na workshopu Ve službách faraóna se
            naučí číst některé hieroglyfy, dozví se něco o způsobech mumifikace nebo si vytvoří svého 
            onom světě.

            Workshopy stojí od 80 do 300 korun. Ten, kdo by se některého z nich chtěl zúčastnit, najde
            informace i podmínky registrace na facebookových stránkách Hrdličkova muzea člověka [ URL 
            www.facebook.com/pages/Hrdli%C4%8Dkovo-muzeum-%C4%8Dlov%C4%9Bka-P%C5%99F-UK-v-Praze/400977