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“Lost Worlds of Archaic Gardens”: Exhibition in the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

In 2018, Zagreb Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science presents a new popular scientific exhibition created by the garden curators, in cooperation with the faculty's botanists, palaeontologists, geographers and chemists. The exhibition, named “Lost Worlds of Archaic Gardens” (in Croatian: ‘IZGUBLJENI SVJETOVI ‒ pradavni vrtovi devona, karbona i krede’) depicts the evolution of the Plant kingdom through the imaginary "gardens" of three well-known periods in geological time scale: early Devonian (Paleozoic), late Carboniferous (Paleozoic) and mid-Cretaceous (Mesozoic). Through four dioramas - fictional garden-beds from the prehistoric times - the visitors are able to learn how and when the plants conquered land through hundreds of millions of years finally brought us to the world we know today. In this manner, the plant collections of the garden’s greenhouses and arboretum are presented to the visitors in a new way, revealing their age and origin according to the latest scientific research. The exhibition, originally intended for schoolchildren and students primarily, is also of great interest to the widest garden audience.

scientific exhibition, Garden collections, prehistoric gardens, plant evolution, Zagreb Botanical Garden

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