Krapina Neanderthal Museum
Museum built into a hillside beside the Hušnjakovo Neanderthal site, with displays on human evolution.
In 1899 the geologist and palaeontologist Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger began excavating a rock shelter on Hušnjakovo hill above Krapina, recovering around nine hundred fossil human bones together with stone tools and the remains of cave bears, wolves and rhinoceroses. The finds, dated to roughly 125,000 years ago, form one of the richest single collections of Neanderthal material anywhere and made the site a reference point for European Palaeolithic research.
The present museum opened on 27 February 2010 in a building by the architect Željko Kovačić, sunk into the hillside beside the site so that it reads as a cut in the rock. The display, developed with the palaeoanthropologist Jakov Radovčić, runs as a spiral walk through the origins of the universe, the evolution of life and the appearance of modern humans, ending with reconstructed scenes of the Krapina Neanderthals. It covers about 1,200 square metres on two levels and makes heavy use of models, film and sound.
Highlights
- Built into the hillside beside the 1899 Hušnjakovo excavation site
- Spiral display running from the origins of the universe to modern humans
- Reconstructed scenes of the Krapina Neanderthal family
- Part of the Museums of Hrvatsko Zagorje group
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