THE PROTEUS VIVARIUM – SPELEOBIOLOGICAL STATION

A 'condensed' glimpse of cave life is offered by the Proteus Vivarium, situated 100 metres from the entrance to Postojna Cave, the place where the first specimens of the majority of groups of cave fauna were found and the richest cave in the world in terms of both the variety and number of species to which it is home. In the Proteus screening room you can watch a multimedia presentation of the karst and the karst underworld. The first cave section of the vivarium contains a presentation of the morphology of the Postojna cave system. The second – in the Passage of New Signatures – has two separate sections and contains specimens of cave fauna, most notably the human fish and the drobnovratnik cave beetle, and a speleobiological laboratory founded in the 1930s. The laboratory is used for research and is not open to visitors.

The Vivarium is open every day.