Croatia 2012 "MUSEUM OF THE KRAPINA NEANDERTHAL
MAN (C)"
Issue Date |
07.11.2012 |
ID |
Michel: Scott:
Stanley Gibbons:
Yvert:
UPU: Category:
An |
Author |
eljko Kovacic |
Stamps in set |
2 |
Value |
HRK 3.10 HRK 1.60 |
Size (width x
height) |
35,5 x 35,5 |
Layout |
Two Mini Sheets of 16 stamps
each |
Products |
FDC x1 MS x2 |
Paper |
white, 102 g.,
gummed (selfadhesive: white, wood-free, 181
g) |
Perforation |
14 |
Print
Technique |
Multicolor Offset |
Printed by |
ZRINSKI dd Cakovec
Croatia |
Quantity |
300.000 each |
Issuing
Authority |
Croatian Post
Inc |

Since its opening, the
Museum of the Krapina Neanderthal Man has not ceased attracting an
exceptional attention - from field experts equally as from the wide public;
already a mere number of over 100 thousand visitors in the first year of its
existence suggests the possible conclusion that the conceptual and investment
project has fulfilled its scope. Museology practice, i.e. the intention of
collecting, preserving and presentation of the remainders of natural and
cultural heritage can be performed on different interest levels and from
different interpretational aspects that are subject to change in accordance with
changes in social, ideological, aesthetic and even economic domain. Each museum
enterprise -or more precisely said, the act of musealisation has the goal to
archive but also to present and as such is an expression of a particular
standard of approach to material and non-material heritage, but also - through
its interpretational aspect it is a public act, and thus also a reflection of
particular contextual facts, whereby the exhibits are just the objects of
cognition.
What does the Museum of the Krapina Neanderthal Man tell us about
the context, apart from, for sure, stimulating the cognition about the natural
origin of human species? If we want to look for an answer to this question, it
should be said that the context in the discussion that follows certainly wont be
reduced only to local one. Although Jakov Radovcic and eljko Kovacic (the
authors of the concept and entire communication project of the Museum) make part
of modern Croatian culture, here we wont dwell upon deducing particularity from
the local context reflected in the museum project, since that would, presently,
be an almost impossible mission and such evaluation should be left for some
future time, when the distance in time has done its work. The purpose of this
text is - first of all - to suggest some global, cultural, given factors that in
intellectual sense could figure as the context of emergence of this undoubtedly
extraordinary project. Intellectual attitude and cognition as one level of
theorising about musealisation will be the tool for establishing the possibility
for evaluation of an interdisciplinary, scientific and artistic project by which
the anthropologic and cultural findings of the Neanderthal men have been
transformed into a simple and unique history lesson.

Old town of Karpina MiNr.
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In simple words, the theme of the Museum is
evolution - shown through global contextualisation of a local finding. In
Krapina, this evolution has experienced a communications revolution as a new
contribution to interpretation. If Gorjanovic Kramberger could have ever thought
that one day in far future two enthusiasts would offer such a stratified
interpretation of his findings in Hunjakovo, the least he probably would have
been able to express would be disbelief. At that time in the 19th century when
the museums - and especially Natural History Museums - were mostly the rooms of
wonders - a kind of visual fascination rather than a scientific laboratory, no
one could have dreamed about the multimedia communication level and multimedia
interpretation. Actually, the standards of musealisation were dramatically
distinct from those today. It was not due only to the development of media, but
maybe - first of all, to the general philosophical attitude towards the past, to
which just the industrial modernisation gave an important contribution in
understanding the century that contained the most history than any other so far.
Hence, the fact that in Kramberger time such a presentation was not possible, is
not merely technologic but primarily intellectual matter, since only in modern
times - recently also marked as post modernism, it has become legitimate for the
museum to constitute itself as a public educational medium, and thus even the
Neanderthal man - put in interpretational context - has sometihing to
say to his modern viewer.
Feda Vukic
Related stamps:
Croatia 1999 "100th anniversary of the
discovery of the early man from Krapina"
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