Toulky přírodou Moravy

Multimedia applications "Wandering nature Moravia" presents an interactive way and extends the exposure of the Moravian Museum in Brno. The application is targeted to interested professionals and the general public, very useful is its use in a school environment where due to its interactivity, mobility and attractive administration can become a welcome tool in the classroom. Not only texts written by professionals, but also images, audio and video will be used to perfectly complement the teacher's interpretation.

On the application content cooperated with five specialized departments MZM Natural History Museum - Zoological department, Department of Botany, Department of Entomology, Mineralogy and petrography Department of Geological and Paleontological Department. Zoological part of the application deals with the fauna and monitors selected vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) Moravian countryside. Users will find out where they occur and what cognitive characteristics and way of life are so different species such as goldfish, marsh frog, marsh turtle, mandarin duck, raccoon dogs and European beaver. Botanical category focuses on the flora, thus the plants, as well as the fauna surveys which species at risk of extinction and which are on the rise and often invasive and uncontrolled manner. Category entomology devoted to his interest in the realm of insects, and those interested in this area is both critically endangered species (eg. Žluťáska barvoměnného or beetle jednorohého) and aggressively invasive species such as ladybird eastern or western conifer seed bug. Mineralogical and Geological Section of our attention for a change aimed at inanimate nature, the first based on extensive collections and scientific study of minerals and rocks from Moravia and Silesia, the second explores and documents the Moravian palaeontological and geological sites.

The application is designed to serve the widest possible range of people interested in nature Moravian region, focusing not only on the past but also the present with the future prospects. It primarily focuses on small and significant climate change that have been in our nature recorded in previous decades. It is not limited, however, only just on climate change, it also deals with themselves often insensitive human interventions, that the original character of nature also significantly transform - from synthetic fertilizer and pesticide use to the fragmentation of the original landscape into small units (for example, when building a road network) and installation of human settlements completely seal off the surrounding area.

Moravian Museum is the second largest and oldest provincial museum in the Czech Republic, was founded in July 1817 imperial decree of Francis I. The museum holds over 6 million collection items, among them a number of unique, eg. For almost thirty thousand years old statue Věstonice Venus.