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Opening up the European Natural History Heritage for Europeana
The National Museum
(Czech Republic)
Michal Lukeš
[email protected]
The National Museum
y Founded in 1818
y The biggest museum in Czech Republic with its collecting,
scientific, educational and methodological functions
y 21 permanent expositions in Prague, 13 outside Prague
y Polythematic institution seeking to enhance the sense of national
identity and awareness of being part of the whole framework of
European and world community and culture
y Departments of The National Museum:
Natural History Museum
Historical Museum
Czech Museum of Music
National Museum Library
Náprstek Museum of Asian, African, and American Cultures
The Historical Building
Reconstruction
What is our content
y The collection amounts 20 milion objects
y Departments of the Natural History Museum involved in the
OpenUp! project:
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Mineralogy and Petrology
Palaentology
Botany
Entomology
Zoology
Antropology
y Preview of what will The National Museum contribute to the
OpenUp project…
Palaentology
y Tertiray Bryozoa from Holubice
(South Moravia)
y Middle Cambrian trilobites from Skryje (middle Bohemia)
Botany
y Herbary scans
y Species Potentilla acaulis,
collected by the Russian botanist
Gmelin in the 18th century in
Siberia (Herbarium of the
National Museum)
y New species
y Yet not described species of the genus Zingiber Zingiberaceae
family, discovered in 2010 during an expedition to Central Vietnam.
Entomology
y the type specimen of a goliath
beetle Goliathus atlas Nickerl,
(1887 deposited in the
collections of the National
Museum; original type labels)
y the larva of the water
scavenger beetle Helophorus
liguricus Angus, 1970
y Dorsal and lateral view of the
beetle Epimetopus mendeli
from Peru
y currently under description as
new for science in a
collaborative study by the
scientists of National Museum
(Prague) and the Museum of
Natural History in London
Zoology
y Speleogobius trigloides - virtually unknown species from the
Mediterranean Sea, there are just few known specimens.
Antropology
y Example of mesiodens on the upper jaw of approximately 8-year-old
child burried in the early medieval cemetery in Prague – Lahovice.
y Post-traumatic pseudoarthrosis
(nonunion) on the left ulna of
the 50-year-old man; early
medieval burial ground,
Mikulčice – Valy.