Together with the National Heritage Institute and 40 other organisations, the Brno and Prague Institutes of archaeology launched a nationwide project offering a series of guided tours for the general public, entitled The Archaeology Summer. Over 3,700 visitors were attracted to almost 250 guided tours at 73 archaeological sites. One of the objectives of this project was to link the discovery of often inconspicuous archaeological remains with the digital information presented by the Institutes at their website www.archeologickyatlas.cz/en. The guided tours covered all historical periods, from the Palaeolithic (obr. 1) to modernity, and the sites included nature preserves, current excavations and museum exhibitions. As expected, those most visited were the famous sites – the early medieval strongholds of Libice nad Cidlinou (obr. 2) and Stará Kouřim, the Palaeolithic settlement of Dolní Věstonice – Pavlov, the Roman fort at Hradisko near Mušov, the Býčí skála (Bull Rock) cave, the Sázava Monastery, the Prague-Vinoř stronghold and the Žuráň burial mound (obr. 3). Some visitors were able to visit two archaeological sites within a single guided tour and view the historical image of the sites using virtual reality.
The second year of the Golden Mammoth Award 2019 was symbolically concluded by the winner’s announcement ceremony in the Anthropos Pavilion of the Moravian Museum on 21 September 2020. The “Karel Absolon Award for the Popularisation of Archaeology” came into existence in 2018 due to the joint endeavour of three prominent Moravian institutions: the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, the Moravian Museum and the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. The principal idea of the newly founded prize is to motivate colleagues across the professional community to develop attractive and creative popularisation activities, which legitimise the irreplaceability and social benefits of archaeology in the modern world in the eyes of the public. Forty projects were registered in the first year of the competition; in 2019, the committee chose from seventeen projects. The winners of the academic prize are the projects “Bohemia-Bavaria ArchaeoCentre” subtitled “To Protect and Share Common Cultural Space” (1st place), the book “The Tales of Civilisation and Barbarism” (2nd place) and the “Flint Summer School of Archaeology” (3rd place). The exhibition “World of Medieval Games” won the museum category, the project “Twentieth Year of School Excursions in Prehistory Archaeopark Všestary” came second and the “Archaeology Autumn in the Litovel Region” third. Only the first prize was announced in the student category, awarded to the project “Autumn with Prehistoric Technologies”. An extraordinary prize has been awarded for the book “We Do Not Kick the Dead – An Amateur Archaeologist’s Manual”.
Stejnojmenná mezinárodní putovní výstava byla po premiéře v Brně uvedena do 28. června 2015 v Císařské konírně Pražského hradu - poté zamířila na Bratislavský hrad (od 7. srpna do 1. listopadu 2015). Představuje nejvýznamnější archeologické nálezy z období Velké Moravy - státního útvaru, který v 9. století existoval na území současné střední Evropy a byl partnerem i soupeřem tehdejších rozhodujících mocností. Po více jak 50 letech, kdy byla prezentována rozsáhlá putovní výstava „Velká Morava: Tisíciletá tradice státu (1963-1968)“, přibližuje návštěvníkům formování, vrchol a pád Velké Moravy. and Zdenka Kosarová.