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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. Special%20Issue / 2009  
         
  Article:   EXHIBITION: “THE PLANET, WE LIVE ON”.

Authors:  IGOR BROSKA, VLADIMÍR BEZÁK, ANNA ĎURIŠOVÁ, NATÁLIA HUDÁČKOVÁ, STANISLAV JELEŇ, MARIANNA KOVÁČOVÁ, JÁN MADARÁS, JOZEF MICHALÍK, EVA NELIŠEROVÁ, IGOR PETRÍK.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  On the 24th November 2008, the exhibition “The planet, we live on” was opened in the Slovak National Museum-Natural History Museum in Bratislava on more than 500 m2 large area (Fig. 1). The opening ceremony was covered by many radio and TV broadcasts and several interviews with creators and official representatives of organising institutions were realised. The exhibition was prepared under auspice of the National Geological Committee of Slovakia by the Geological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Science and the Slovak National Museum, with cooperation with the Geophysical institute SAS, the Faculty of Science of the Comenius University and the State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr. The exposition is organised within frame of the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE), declared by the UNO in New York. The IYPE is an initiative of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and UNESCO and it was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the successful International Geophysical Year, when fundamentals of Earth’ plate tectonics were formulated. Since then a need to open geosciences towards society became extremely actual and dissemination of new knowledge gathered by geosciences became an important aim for many geoscientists. People must accept that our planet where the mankind has developed can exist only thanks to the selfmaintaining ability of Earth’s ecosystems. It is not just a planet, it is the only planet we possess and know. One of the main activities of the IYPE is organising aimed exhibitions in many countries (de Mulder, 2008) and specialised papers helped the process (Press, 2008; Romanowicz, 2008; Thorpe et al., 2008; Stevenson, 2008). Therefore, also in Slovakia (Bratislava) a large exhibition was prepared, which will last until July 2009. The financial support came from the Slovak Research and Development Agency (project LPP 0231-07), in addition to the Environmental Fond (Ministry of Environment of SR), the Ministry of Culture of SR, and partly from sponsors, namely Nafta Co., Horná Nitra Brown Coal Mines (Hornonitrianske bane Prievidza, a.s.), Považská cementáreň, a.s., Ladce, Volkswagen Slovakia, Co.

Keywords: exhibition, International Year of Planet Earth, Slovakia.
 
         
     
         
         
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