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Mammoth hunters returned to Landek
12.11.2009Ostrava (November 12, 2009) – The OKD Mining Museum in Ostrava-Petřkovice has a new feature. A mammoth hunters´ settlement built due to a donation from the OKD Foundation will permit young and grown-up visitors to return tens of thousands years back. The foundation donated CZK 450 thousand to the project.
“It is a unique attraction to families with children, unparalleled in our region. Standardised playgrounds can be found galore, but an opportunity to move backwards in time for 23 thousands years is absolutely extraordinary,“ Rodan Broskevič, Chairman of the Friends of the Mining Museum, added, who already considers further extension of the archeopark.
The original statue of the mammoth, which attracted the attention of the passers-by, was moved by the museum staff atop a hill situated nearby. “Its former place now occupied by a newer, larger and artistically interpreted mammoth. It is made of wood and serves as a swing, climbing frame or a slide,“ Miroslav Fojtík, Director of the OKD Mining Museum, commented on the addition. The mammoth made of wood from Landek is a work by Lenka Klodová, a graphic artist and a native of Ostrava-Petřkovice, where the Mining Museum is located. In addition to wood, the project also included several kinds of granite. The granite coming from Bohemia served to manufacture a large table with four benches. The granite from Brazil was used for the side stall next to the fireplace. Thus, this magical rock came back to life in the hands of Martin Kuchař, a Landek sculptor and carver.
The settlement of the mammoth hunters introduces the visitors to the so-called Gravettian period, which such Ostrava´s finds of world importance as the unique statuette of the Venus of Landek and the proofs of the first use of black coal on our planet date back to. The visitors to the museum can use possibility to warm up on the attractions already now when the weather is reminiscent of the ice age.
Vladislav Sobol
Spokesman, OKD Foundation
Telephone: 596 262 293
Mobile: 725 595 417
e-mail: vladislav.sobol@okd.cz
