In Pavlov, work on the archaeological park about mammoth hunters is reaching its peak

Pavlov (Břeclavsko) - Between Dolní Věstonice and Pavlov near Břeclav, work is nearing completion on an archeopark that will showcase mammoth hunters. The new exhibition will cost approximately 105 million Czech korunas. It will be completed by the end of May. The opening date has not yet been determined, said Petr Kubín, the director of the Mikulov museum, to ČTK today. According to him, craftsmen are constructing display cases in the pavilion, which scientists will soon fill with exhibits. Many of these have been stored for years in the deposits of the museum and the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

"The building is finished and has been approved. It is set into the ground in such a way that it gives visitors the impression that they are entering a cave, thus seeming to take them back in time to when this area was inhabited by mammoth hunters," said the director. In the center of the object is an uncovered archaeological site with skeletons and artifacts.

Dolní Věstonice is one of the world-famous areas famous for its excavations. 30,000 years ago, this site was so densely populated by mammoth hunters that scientists nicknamed it the Paleolithic New York. The most significant find is the Věstonická Venus, mostly housed in the vault of the Moravian Museum in Brno. At least a copy of it will be displayed in the pavilion.

The new building covers one of the settlements from the older Stone Age, preserved in the form it was found by archaeologists. The exhibition will also include dioramas depicting the lives of the hunters.

The creators of the exhibition anticipate that the archeopark could be visited by up to 40,000 people annually. Three-quarters of the costs for the construction of the park were covered by the EU, with the remainder funded by the state through subsidies.

From the new complex, visitors will be able to head to the nearby Dolní Věstonice, where the original archaeological museum is located. However, its spaces are too cramped, making it impossible to expand the building, hence the creation of a new exhibition. The history of humanity's earliest days is also illustrated by the permanent exhibition Anthropos in Brno, which was established during the First Republic at the initiative of researcher Karel Absolon. It was his scientific team that discovered the Věstonická Venus.