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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: y y y y y y 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.