Anthropos Pavilion, Prehistoric museum in Pisárky, Czech Republic.
The Anthropos Pavilion is a museum in Pisárky dedicated to prehistory and early human settlements, displaying archaeological finds from Moravia and across Europe. The collections include stone tools, art objects, and remains from different periods of human history.
In 1928 Karel Absolon presented finds on human origins at the Brno Exhibition Centre, backed by President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa. After the war Jan Jelínek, director of the Moravian Museum, pushed through a separate building designed by Evžen Šteflíček, opened in 1961. It was closed in 2003 and reopened on 29 June 2006 after reconstruction.
The exhibition shows how early people lived and worked in the region, focusing on hunting techniques and crafts from different time periods. Visitors can see how everyday tools and art forms evolved over thousands of years.
The pavilion stands on the right bank of the Svratka in Pisárky, behind the Brno Exhibition Centre, and is reached from the city centre by tram. The building was closed in 2003 for a general reconstruction and reopened on 29 June 2006 in a modernised, enlarged form.
The life-size mammoth model dates back to Karel Absolon's 1928 exhibition "Man and his Ancestry" at the Brno Exhibition Centre, so a display predating the pavilion itself still stands in its halls. Jan Jelínek later pushed through the building that houses it.
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