Natural transformations living and non-living

Nature hides many transformations (metamorphoses) around us. Most animals, at the very beginning of their development, produce an egg from which an adult of various shapes and sizes emerges. The different developmental stages of this transformation of animals are relatively well documented. For example, a butterfly egg hatches into a caterpillar, which later forms a chrysalis that hatches into a beautiful butterfly. Join the experts of the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen for a look at these transformations and see the animals up close! There will be a zoological minilaboratory where visitors will be able to see the diversity of animals under a microscope and thus get a closer look at their world. Together with the Museum of Puppets in Pilsen, we will also allow children or playful visitors to create their own metamorphosis and turn an egg into a dragon.

Presenters will include:

Ivana Hradská (invertebrate zoologist - arachnologist, curator of the entomological sub-collection, head of the department)

Jan Walter (entomologist - lepidopterologist, deputy head of the department)

Markéta Formanová (theatrologist, head of the Museum of Puppets of the Czech Republic)

Jana Košová (pedagogue at the Puppet Museum of the Czech Museum)

Veronika Plachá (curator of the Museum of Puppets of the Czech Republic)

West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen, p. o.