Mendel festival 2024

This year's Mendel Festival from 16 July!

As every year, the Mendel Festival will culminate on Saturday, 20 July - but it already offers visitors an interesting programme during the week. The specialist programme starts on Tuesday 16 July in the Mendel Greenhouse, and will include experiential tours of the Mendel Museum. We will be involved in the festival programme throughout the week:

TUESDAY 16 JULY

Experiential tours - "Appointment of Kateřina of Lipá as Abbess of the Monastery in Old Brno"; 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm, 10:00 pm. Programme only in Czech.

WEDNESDAY 17 JULY

Experiential tours - "Appointment of Kateřina of Lipá as Abbess of the Monastery in Old Brno"; 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm, 10:00 pm. Programme only in Czech.

FRIDAY 19 JULY

Guided tours in the evening, please book in advance by calling 725 311 297 or email asistent@mendelmuseum.muni.cz. The tours will be in Czech.

SATURDAY 20 JULY

Open exhibitions - 11 AM to 6 PM, both the Mendel Museum and the Old Brno Abbey Museum will be open

Programme for families with children - 11 AM to 6 PM

Together with other parts of Masaryk University - Bioskop, RECETOX, CEITEC - we will be looking forward to seeing you at the stations within the public programme. You can drop by our art workshop to paint your own canvas bag, try to put together a cell puzzle or explore the heredity of pigeons. We look forward to seeing you!

We recommend following the festival website and Facebook for up-to-date information.

Annotation of Saturday's program:

Mendel Museum:

• Build a cell | The cell is the basic building block of organisms. But what is the cell itself made of? Do the cells of animals and plants look the same? Come and make a cell with us - it will be on the stand in a sufficiently enlarged size!
• Mendel Art Workshop | Create an original canvas bag with a thematic motif!
• Pigeon crossbreeding | How diverse can one pair of parents produce? What about heredity - genes and alleles? Come find out more and crossbreed pigeons with us! At least "like".

Bioscope:

• PI (Palaeo-Intelligence) | Intelligence was on our planet long before man, though not the artificial kind, but the natural kind. How big a brain did Tyrannosaurus have? Which dinosaur was the smartest? And what about other prehistoric creatures?

RECETOX:

• Explore life-giving water | Water is the reason for life as we know it on planet Earth. How does humanity manage this irreplaceable natural resource? How do we treat water for our needs? How is its quality affected by our actions? What do humans introduce into water and what do these substances do to ecosystems? Come and learn more about water!

CEITEC:

• What is the DNA that makes us look like our parents? You won't be able to see DNA directly at the booth (it's too tiny), but we'll explain what it looks like. You will even be able to create a simplified model of it yourself and take it home as a souvenir!