5th ROK on Hušnjakovo completed

ROK on Hušnjakovo, an educational program that has been bringing together children and adults for the fifth year in a row, ended on Saturday, August 30, with a trip to Rude and a tour of the St. Barbara Mine.

Over the course of four days, participants enjoyed various workshops on the topic of geology and paleontology, exploring minerals and fossils. In addition to field excavations, a workshop on human evolution was also held, and the children, with their mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers and aunts, had the opportunity to study replicas of fossil skulls of human ancestors and their reconstructions. Then they made their own heads of various extinct species of Australopithecus, Neanderthals and others out of clay. As every year, the fifth day of the program was reserved for a trip, and after Lepoglava, the Vindija Cave, the Veternica Cave and Radoboj, the participants experienced the authentic mining area of ​​the St. Barbara Mine, in the darkness and cold of the Sveto Trojstvo and Kokel trenches, passing through 350 meters of underground tunnels that are several centuries old.

With learning through play, exploration, socializing and fun, these workshops for adults and children reconnected different generations and Hušnjakovo became a place to create unforgettable memories.

The program was led by museum advisor-educator Lorka Lončar Uvodić and curator-educator Mirjana Biljan, in collaboration with other Museum employees.