From school history textbooks
Organised by: Archaeological museum in
Zagreb
Venue: Archaeological museum in Zagreb, N. Š.
Zrinski Square 19
Duration: April 14th, 2011 - September
4th, 2011
Exhibition author: Zorica Babić
Scope: 84 objects with accompanying illustrations
and descriptions in Croatian
Type: educative
Users: primary and highs school students,
teachers and professors, others
Subject: Various textbooks, readers, workbooks, atlases, etc., are used in history classes in primary and highs schools. They are both illustrative and textual. Many illustrations or photographs depict monuments originating in particular historical periods. Often these monuments are kept in the AMZ. Some are displayed in the Museum's permanent exhibition, others are kept in its depositories. The author of the exhibition intends to display the original monuments reproduced in textbooks, such as the exquisite Eneolithic bird-shaped vessel, known as the Vučedol dove, a symbol of Croatia of a kind, as well as one of the most beautiful Roman female portraits, the marble head of a young female from Solin (early 3rd c.), known as the Solinjanka. The third important monument is a section of an altar rail with a wattle ornament from Muć Gornji with a Latin inscription mentioning the Croatian duke Branimir and the year of the erection of the church of St Peter (888). This particular monument, together with many others, was for a long time unavailable to the visitors. Therefore, this educational exhibition is a nice opportunity to meet them again and learn something more about these monuments than it is available from textbooks.