Over the past two pandemic years, the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Zagreb has faced a major challenge \u2013 classes, which are almost impossible to hold without direct contact because mastering veterinary skills and knowledge requires a significant amount of exercises, seminars and practical work in laboratories and with animals, had to be organized on several occasions in on-line form almost overnight.\u00a0 We managed extremely well in this so this year, as part of Museum Night, on Friday 28th January from 18.00 to 23.00 hours, we will show visitors how veterinary medicine used to be studied, and what changes the digital age has brought, what we have retained of the old ways, and the new things we have applied.\u00a0 Visitors will be able to see equipment, from instruments used in past centuries during difficult births, operations and castration, to contemporary digital teaching solutions and the use of artificial intelligence in diagnostics and treatment of animals.<\/p>\n
The Department of Veterinary Pathology – the Museum of Veterinary Pathology<\/p>\n
The museum collection consists of about 3000 specimens showing pathological changes to the organs of different animal species, human organs, and calcolosi and foreign bodies collected since 1923 as part of the clinical work of the Department.\u00a0 Other items of interest in the museum are specimens of animal diseases that have been eradicated in Croatia, such as glanders, tuberculosis and foot and mouth disease, but also congenital deformities.\u00a0 In view of the challenges we have been facing in recent years – the COVID-19 pandemic, which means that we are experiencing various forms of online<\/em>\u00a0classes, but also the earthquakes in the Republic of Croatia, which mean that some of our specimens now require restoration, the need has arisen to preserve the museum collection for present and future generations of students and experts in the field of veterinary pathology.\u00a0 So, as part of a specific project, more than 600 specimens have been photographed, some of them using rotation.\u00a0 In addition, our visitors will be able to see a\u00a0low-cost\u00a0scanner, used for creating virtual histological specimens.\u00a0 The purpose of this and similar scanners is the digitalization of histological specimens that are needed in the field of patho-histology, and diagnostics of pathological conditions, but also for making a diagnosis using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Department of Biology and Pathology of Fish and Bees – educational archive station for bee-keeping<\/p>\n Exhibition and Workshop:\u00a0 BeesConnect at VEF<\/p>\n BeesConnect at VEF, as part of the Museum Night with the title Museums – Between the Real and the Digital, will include a comparative presentation of museum and contemporary exhibits showing individual parts of the biology, physiology and pathology of bees, bee-keeping technology, and related stories about good bee-keeping, and veterinary and ecological practices, that make it possible to produce bee products successfully.<\/p>\n As part of the exhibition, a mini workshop will be held where selected anatomic specimens of the individual parts of bees\u2019 bodies will be shown under a microscope, whereby visitors will be able to learn about the structure of bees’ bodies, and how methods have developed to study the biology and physiology of bees at the Veterinary Faculty.\u00a0 For group visits of students from elementary and high schools workshops are planned with a competitive element in recognizing and describing the function of exhibits by comparing them with digital photographs, and for the youngest there will be a competition in drawing and creating bee hives.<\/p>\n In addition, as part of the programme, a VEF educational film will be premi\u00e8red about the importance biology and diseases of bees.<\/p>\n As part of the adjustment to teaching new generations of students, young people and children, a special page will be designed and posted on social media, where we will publish current items, which will follow the content of the bee exhibition in digital form, and in a simple and easily accessible way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Department of Animal Breeding and Livestock Production<\/p>\n During Museum Night, the following will be on display:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Department of Forensic and Judicial Veterinary Medicine<\/p>\n As every year, visitors will be shown the instruments veterinarians used at various times during the development of veterinary medicine in the field.\u00a0 This primarily relates to instruments they used to help with difficult births, and embryotomy and castration of male animals.\u00a0 Visitors will be introduced to the problems veterinarians worked to resolve over the course of history and as the veterinary profession developed, including the development of teaching activities at the Veterinary Faculty from its foundation.\u00a0 In the same way, visitors will have the opportunity to see the original certificates of the first Croatian veterinarians, blacksmiths and butchers in the period from 1867 to 1923, various documents belonging to well-known veterinary experts, a large number of passports issued from 1861 to 1890, and regulations on livestock passports.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Surgery, Orthopaedics and Ophthalmology Clinic<\/p>\n At the Surgery, Orthopaedics and Ophthalmology Clinic, in the facilities used for examining horses, there will be an exhibition of old books, exhibits, instruments and posters on surgery and anaesthesia through history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology – Histology Practice Room<\/p>\n Exhibition and Workshop: INSTA(NT) \u2013 vef_hista<\/p>\n The exhibition INSTA(NT) \u2013 vef_hista as part of Museum Night will include a comparative presentation of embryological “sauces”, a unique collection of\u00a0 pictures of histological organs and tissue (110 oil paintings by\u00a0 Silvio Trapan), and photographs of embryological exhibits and histological specimens on the vef_hista instagram page, with detailed descriptions.\u00a0 As part of the exhibition there will also be a mini workshop with a practical part, involving microscope examination of selected specimens.<\/p>\n In this way visitors will be introduced to the development of methods of studying in the field of histology at the Veterinary Faculty, and for group visits (elementary and high school students) mini workshops will be organized with a competitive element in recognising embryological exhibits and histological specimens by comparing photographs published on the vet_hista instagram page.\u00a0 The instagram page will soon complete its first year of existence. It has 147 posts and currently has 666 followers from Croatia and neighbouring countries.\u00a0 It is designed to accommodate 21st century technology and Z-generaion students, with simple access and rapid verification of knowledge in the field of histology.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Students of Veterinary Medicine – Reptilomania+<\/p>\n Equus,<\/em>\u00a0the veterinary students’ association, will organize a mini exhibition of Reptilomania+ where, as well as reptiles, there will also be rodents and rabbits on display, and you will be able to have your photograph taken with some species of household pets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past two pandemic years, the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Zagreb has faced a major challenge \u2013 classes, which are almost impossible to hold without direct contact because mastering veterinary skills and knowledge requires a significant amount of exercises, seminars and practical work in laboratories and with animals, had to be organized…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n