Archeopark Pavlov

On May 28, 2016, the Archaeological Park Pavlov was opened with the participation of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Bohuslav Sobotka. The project, supported by the Regional Operational Programme Southeast with an amount of 63 million CZK and by the South Moravian Region with an amount exceeding 33 million CZK, uniquely makes accessible a site that is among the national cultural monuments.
The complex of settlements from the Paleolithic era - the age of mammoth hunters - has provided, over decades of research, an enormous number of stone and bone tools, artistic objects, as well as skeletal remains of modern type humans, thanks to which Pavlov and Dolní Věstonice are among the leading archaeological sites on a global scale.
It all began with an ideological intent that originated in 2002 at the initiative of the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno, which is also a partner and expert guarantor of the project. This was prepared by the Regional Museum in Mikulov in cooperation with the architectural office of Ing. arch. Radko Květ. The construction was carried out by a consortium of companies OHL ŽS, a.s. and SKRstav, s.r.o. The exhibition was prepared by the company Pixl-e, and the suppliers of furniture and AV technology were A.M.O.S. Design, s.r.o. and Lotech, s.r.o.
The exceptional architecture and the attractively designed exhibition, combining contemporary audiovisual technologies with classical museum presentation over an area of more than 500 m², will provide the general public with the most important findings from scientific research. It presents not only the history of the research in the form of period photographs and documents but primarily the material and spiritual world of the people of that time. Attention is focused on themes such as hunting, the everyday life of hunters, art and rituals, burial practices, and more.