TWO LANDS, TWO WORLDS, ONE HUMAN | IAD 2026

SATURDAY | 17 OCTOBER 2026 | 9:00–16:00 | FREE ENTRY

Archeopark Pavlov invites you to International Archaeology Day on Saturday, 17 October. This year’s programme will connect two seemingly distant worlds: Palaeolithic southern Moravia and Tierra del Fuego at the very southern tip of South America. The full-day programme will include guided tours, a lecture, an exhibition and a themed game, all available free of charge throughout the day.

Guided tours of the permanent exhibition will take place at 10:00, 12:00 and 14:00, introducing visitors to the world of the mammoth hunters who lived beneath the Pálava Hills 30,000 years ago.

An important part of the programme will also be the accompanying exhibition Tierra del Fuego, which has been on display at Archeopark Pavlov since May this year.

The exhibition explores the lives of the Indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego, one of the most remote and harshest regions on our planet. Drawing on archaeological, ethnological and ethnoarchaeological knowledge, it presents their everyday lives, subsistence strategies, rituals and mythology. It also highlights the remarkable ability of humans to adapt to extreme conditions and reflects on how easily our first impressions of another culture can distort our ideas of what “civilisation” means.

At 13:00, the programme will continue with a lecture by Jiří Svoboda, the exhibition’s author, who will take visitors deeper into the world of Tierra del Fuego and the themes explored in the exhibition.

Throughout the day, visitors will also be able to take part in a themed game directly in the exhibition, exploring the stories of Tierra del Fuego, and in particular the stories of travellers and researchers who set out to discover and study this distant world. The game is aimed primarily at older children and adults and offers another way to explore the subject.

This year, International Archaeology Day at Archeopark Pavlov will connect two distant parts of the world and two different periods of human history. Although they are separated by thousands of kilometres and tens of thousands of years, both bring us face to face with the human being, their ability to adapt to their environment, create their own culture and find ways to live and survive in the world around them.

Programme subject to change. The programme is conducted in Czech only.