Erik/a - the woolly rhinoceros

On Wednesday, October 2, at 7 p.m., the exhibition Erik/a - the woolly rhinoceros of the Varaždin City Museum was opened in the Krapina Neanderthal Museum.

The exhibition is about a unique paleontological find of a woolly rhinoceros in the area of ​​Mali Segečak, near Ludbreg, discovered in 1982. About 70% of the skeleton was preserved, and it is extremely valuable because it is the only such find preserved in situ in Croatia. Woolly rhinoceroses lived during the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Europe and Northern Asia, while they lived in Croatia from approximately 70,000 to 12,000 years ago, when they became extinct.

The opening program of the exhibition was led by the senior curator, head of the Museum, Eduard Vasiljević, and after the opening greeting, a large audience watched a short film about the discovery of the bones of the woolly rhinoceros. The author of the exhibition is Lovorka Štimac-Dedić, senior curator archaeologist of the Varaždin City Museum, who introduced the audience to the importance of this find. The director of the Varaždin Museum, Miran Bojanić Morandini, greeted the audience, and the director of the Museums of Hrvatsko zagorje, Jurica Sabol, opened the exhibition.

The exhibition can be visited in the atrium of the Museum until January 31, 2025.