Education
Our institutions fulfills its educational aims by organising practical workshops and museum lessons.
Workshops:
“Fire and Iron” which consist of:
- setting a fire using ancient methods
- preparing materials needed for building a slag-pit bloomery furnace.
- forging an iron item in a blacksmith workshop
- throwing/shootig an Iron age distance weapon at a target
“Pottery workshop” - making vases, plates and other items using just hands or forming vessels on a potter’s wheel
“Iron Age daily life” - Ancient customs and habits, learning how to distinguish species of wild grown plants and how they benefit us, with practical workshop of milling of grain into flour.
Each workshop lasts 1 hour
Museum lessons:
“From iron ore to knife” – presentations of blacksmith workshops, and items forged from iron
“Iron Age daily life” – a stroll through the Iron Age Village and learning about ancients customs and trades
“The Nature of the Świętokrzyski region” - The themes discussed during lessons are Świętokrzyski National Park, Fir-tree primordial forest, Chelmowa Hill and polish larch, a role of beavers in the nearest surroundings of the museum
“Legends of the Świętokrzyski region” - local folklore myths and legends. Witches, Good and bad brigands, legend of the Sacred Deer and Holy Cross Mountain
Each lesson lasts 45 minutes
Workshops and museum lessons should be reserved at least one week in advance
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