Ceremonial opening of the 91st season of the Prague Zoo
The grand opening of the 91st season of the Prague Zoo will take place on Saturday, March 26, from 11 a.m. The main topic will be the presentation of the plans for the upcoming season, as well as the activities of the Prague Zoo to help Ukraine. The main host will be the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Yevhen Perebyjnis. The program will also include a fashion show of children’s uniforms at the Prague Zoo and a special collection of shirts with a motif of legumes and authentic African dresses. You can also look forward to the start of this year’s children’s tram, the christening of the silver gibbon cub, the opening of the “Gentle Giants” exhibition and a lecture on eastern gorillas.
Saturday’s program will begin at 10:40 a.m. on the stage in front of the Education Center with a musical performance by singer Michal Horák. At 11 a.m., Miroslav Bob will welcome the director of the Prague Zoo together with the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Yevhen Perebyjnis and will present the activities of the Prague Zoo to help war-threatened breeding facilities in Ukraine and refugee Ukrainian families. With other guests, the mayor of hl. of the City of Prague Zdeněk Hřib and his deputy Petr Hlubuček, then I will present the news of this season.
At noon, the program will move to the Children’s Zoo near the Gaston restaurant, which produces a fashion show of children’s uniforms of the Prague Zoo by the Bushman brand, which can be purchased on site. There will also be a fashion collection of shirts with a motif of legumes – animals, the arrival will be one of the main themes of this season, a collection of African dresses made of fabrics imported directly from the Camera. Selected models of this dress will be exhibited in the new Gorilla Pavilion, which will be inaugurated in the fall. The culmination of the program block will be the resumption of the operation of the children’s tram, with children in children’s uniforms being the first to ride.
At 1 p.m., the program will move to the exhibition of silver gibbons, where the name and gender of their youngest addition will be ceremoniously presented. The four-month-old cub is christened by the deputy mayor of the capital. of the City of Prague Petr Hlubuček together with the director of the Volkswagen passenger car division Patrik Fejtek.
The authentic performance of the music group Njachas African at 2 pm foreshadows the ceremonial opening of the photographic exhibition entitled “Gentle Giants”. Photographs of eastern gorillas in the Kahuzi Bieg National Park were taken by director Miroslav Bobek, who on this occasion presented the activities of the Prague Zoo to protect gorillas in the Congo. The lecture of the chief breeder of primates, Martin Vojáček, will also take place on the same topic, which will take place in the Education Center from 3.30 pm.
An accompanying program is also prepared for the rich throughout the day, which is familiar especially with the news and this year’s season plans – in common bats, short-tailed legume guests come and the opening of the new Gorilla Pavilion. It will also be possible to take part in a knowledge quiz and thus win a calendar of photos from the “Gentle Giants” exhibition or look at the commented feedings and meetings of the TOP 10 animals with the highest number of purchased “Meal vouchers for animals”.
The main program of the opening ceremony of the 91st season of the Prague Zoo
- 10:40 Musical performance by singer Michal Horák
(terrace in front of the Education Center) - 11:00 Introductory speech by the director of the Prague Zoo and important guests
(terrace in front of the Education Center) - 12:00 Fashion show of children’s uniforms of the Prague Zoo, a collection of shirts with a motif of legumes and authentic African dresses and the opening of a children’s tram
(Children’s zoo next to the Gaston restaurant) - 13:00 The christening of a silver gibbon cub
(Water world and monkey islands) - 14:00 Opening of the exhibition of photographs by the director of the Prague Zoo Miroslav Bobek “Gentle Giants” and the announcement of the winners for a calendar and a postcard puzzle with photographs from the exhibition
(terrace in front of the Education Center) - 15:30 Lecture by the head breeder of primates Martin Vojáček on eastern gorillas in the Kahuzi Bieg National Park
(Education Center)
Accompanying program for visitors (10:00 – 16:00)
- Educational and gaming site with competition activities on the topic “News at the Prague Zoo”
- Competition quiz for visitors for a calendar and a postcard with photos from the exhibition “Gentle Giants”
- Guided feeding and meetings at the TOP 10 animals with the highest number of purchased “Meal vouchers for animals”:
at 10:00 commented feeding of Cape Rattlesnakes
at 10:15 commented feeding meerkats
at 10:30 commented feeding of Berber females
at 11:00 commented feeding red pandas
at 12:30 annotated meeting at the guerez mantles
at 13:30 commented meeting in front of the Rákos Pavilion
at 14:00 commented meeting at the wombat
at 15:00 commented feeding jaguarundi
at 15:30 commented meeting at the bear devils
at 16:00 commented meeting at the saltwater ocelot - Opening of the new exhibition “Pavel Procházka – Illustrator of Prague Zoo”
(Gočár houses)
Friday, April 22, is Earth Day, during which we commemorate the beauty and richness of the environment, but also the importance of its protection. Each ecosystem co-creates individual species and this year we will focus on snakes, …
On Easter Monday, April 18, the animals at the Prague Zoo will receive an “Easter service” in the form of a special spring enrichment. Be there and find out many interesting things from the life of individual “carolers”.