Opening of the exhibition ”Atlantis - Small Worlds”

The exhibition of the Museum of Peasants' Revolts Atlantis - Small Worlds will open in the exhibition space of the "Old Village" Museum Kumrovec on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 12 p.m.

The Atlantis project is a research and exhibition project of the Museum of European Culture (Koordinierung Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa am Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) that examines the global phenomenon of the disappearance of settlements through the prism of a number of different cultural, historical, political, economic and natural factors.

The aim of the exhibition is to examine the history of about 20 disappeared settlements from the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and the Republic of Moldova. The exhibition was realized in cooperation with universities, museums, non-governmental organizations and artists from the mentioned countries. The disappearance and continuous decline in the population of numerous European settlements is part of a series of traumas and changes that occurred during the 20th and 21st centuries. The reasons for the depopulation and disappearance of villages are diverse, and the history of each settlement is specific.

The "Old Village" Museum Kumrovec will present several disappeared settlements from Croatia: Sutinske Toplice (Hrvatsko Zagorje), Zut, Kotarani and Gornje Jame (Banovina), Završje (Istria), and Veliko and Malo Grablje (Dalmatia). After the exhibition in Croatia, all selected disappeared European settlements, processed as part of the project, will be presented at the final exhibition in Berlin.

The project leader is research associate Andrea Vándor (Koordinierung Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaam Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz), and the main expert associates are Lana Peternel, PhD (Institute for Social Research), Ana Perinić-Lewis, PhD (Institute for Migration Research), Filip Škiljan, PhD (Institute for Migration Research), Ivana Škiljan, PhD (museum advisor of the Museum of Peasants' Revolts) and Lidija Nikočević, PhD.

The exhibition will be opened until April 25, 2025.