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The Beehive Collection
After the model of its related museums of the world, in 1994 the Zagreb Technical Museum also introduced someting new into its Essential Agriculture department - Specimen Beehives.
The three glass beehives with live bees enable direct observation of a bee community's life and work. Each beehive has a passage leading to the outside world, thus enabling the bees to recover pollen and nectar.
The collection's greatest attraction are the live bees, allowing visitors to become introduced into the secrets of a bee community organization and truly miraculous solutions of its habitat's architecture.
For instance, already back in the 18th century, Rudjer Boskovic was writing about honey-combs and their hexagonal shape as an ideal form of space use. Beehives are at the same time rather complex live plants where an extremely elaborate, as well as environmentally quite safe food processing is taking place on a very small space.
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