Category Archives: Kobi

Traditional Easter egg decorating at the Bloischdorf Village Museum

Everyone is invited to learn about, try out and apply two traditional Sorbian techniques for decorating Easter eggs.
Traditional ornaments and patterns are applied to the egg with pinheads and quills.
In the wax-bossing technique, wax in different colours is dabbed onto the white, brown or previously coloured egg. The coloured wax remains on the Easter egg. The wax dabbing technique is more time-consuming, as the ornaments are dabbed on with wax in several passes and the egg is repeatedly dipped into different colour baths between waxing. At the end, the wax is removed from the egg again.

The programme takes place indoors and is aimed at daycare centres and schoolchildren
of classes 1 to 10.
Dates: 4 weeks before Easter
Pre-registration: at least 3 weeks in advance
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Group size: 10 to 30 people
Contribution towards expenses per person: € 7.00
2 carers of the group have free admission
Bloischdorf Museum Barn

Guided tour of the Peitz fortress tower - view over Peitz - insight into the history of the fortress

The fortress tower is located in the heart of the town of Peitz, in the middle of the historic old town centre.

Exhibition of agricultural technology and peasant way of life in the "Old Mill" Proschim

An excursion into regional folklore through small-scale farming techniques and village life and crafts.

Ground floor: history of the mill and the village of Proschim as well as exhibition of mill models and grist mills

1st floor: straw processing, churning butter, baking, cereals, preserving crops, laundry, living quarters, kitchen, childcare, textiles, saddlery machine

2nd floor: potato cultivation, soil cultivation, garden tools, shoemaking, weaving, spinning, beekeeping, lift and transmission

Farm: small animal husbandry, home slaughtering, bakery, laundry cleaning, bicycle exhibition

The programme takes place in the "Alte Mühle" and on the Mühlenhof. It is aimed at pupils in grades 1 to 12.
Pre-registration: one week before
Duration: approx. 2 hrs.
Group size: 10 to 40 people
Admission per person: € 1.50

"Old Mill" Proschim

Walk through the Stone Age at the Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Visitors get to know the Archaeotechnical Centre with its exhibition and epoch garden. After an introduction to Stone Age archaeology with the centre's suitcase full of tools and equipment from the Stone Age, the exhibition Man - Wood - Archaeology follows in the footsteps of the Ice Age hunters and the first farmers and cattle breeders. In the epoch garden, Stone Age handicraft techniques are tried out and experiments are carried out with the steel of the Stone Age - the flint stone - and fire is made and played with. The project day ends with a hearty Stone Age meal with homemade bread from the Stone Age clay oven.

The programme takes place outdoors and is aimed at pupils in grades 1 to 10.
Dates: by arrangement
Advance booking absolutely necessary: at least 2 weeks in advance
Duration: at least 4 hours (and longer)
Group size: 10 to 25 people
Admission per person: €10.00

Cameras or camera phones can be brought along for documentation.

Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Walk through the Middle Ages at the Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Visitors get to know the Archaeotechnical Centre with its exhibition and epoch garden. After an introduction to the archaeology of the Middle Ages with the centre's suitcase full of tools and equipment from the Middle Ages, the exhibition Man - Wood - Archaeology follows the traces of medieval settlement in Lower Lusatia. In the epoch garden, medieval handicraft techniques are tried out and fires are made with flint and chisels. After visiting real medieval findings in the Klein Görigk open-air installation, the project day ends with games and a hearty meal from the medieval pot and home-baked bread from the clay oven.

The offer takes place outdoors and is aimed at students of the
Grades 1 to 10.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: at least 2 weeks in advance, pre-registration is absolutely necessary!
Duration: at least 4 hours (and longer)
Group size: 10 to 25 people
Admission per person: €10.00

Cameras or camera phones can be brought along for documentation.

Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

A capful of archaeology at the Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Visitors get to know the Archaeotechnical Centre with its exhibition, its epoch garden, Lake Clara and the open-air installation Klein Görigk. After an introduction to archaeology, the tour goes through the exhibition Man - Wood - Archaeology; guaranteed free of vitrines and everything to touch and try out. Afterwards, there will be a walk to Lake Clara, where the archaeological wood of Brandenburg is stored like in a magazine - only under water! Finally, we visit real archaeological findings from the Middle Ages from the Welzow-Süd open-cast mine, which have been reconstructed in an open-air installation. The only medieval barn from Brandenburg that could be reconstructed on the basis of excavation findings is also located here.

The offer takes place outdoors and is aimed at students of the
Grades 1 to 10.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: at least 2 weeks in advance, pre-registration is absolutely necessary!
Duration: at least 3 hours (and longer)
Group size: 10 to 25 people
Admission per person: €10.00

Cameras or camera phones can be brought along for documentation.

Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Excavate once like the archaeologists at the Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Visitors learn about an excavation: what is an archaeological finding and how does one go about uncovering all the beautiful things it hides within? Shovel, trowel and scraper, but also paper and pencil are needed to follow the steps of the archaeologist until a vessel from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age or the Iron Age can finally be taken out of the earth and everyone can marvel at it.

The Archaeotechnical Centre works with replicas. This means that if a vessel is damaged during excavation - never mind, the archaeological ceramics working group will make new ones. The flints found in the Stone Age features are freshly cut and therefore sharp!

The offer takes place outdoors and is aimed at students of the
Grades 1 to 10.
Dates: by arrangement
Advance booking absolutely necessary: at least 2 weeks in advance
Duration: at least 4 hours (and longer)
Group size: 10 to 25 people
Admission per person: € 8.00
Cameras or camera phones can be brought along for documentation.

Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Seven examinations through prehistory at the Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

The visitors are given a typical task at each of 7 stations, which must be solved in the group in half an hour. Then the station is changed. The event includes fire making, leather cutting, pottery, drilling, wall building, wax casting and an excavation. Along the way, there is cooking for everyone and delicious food from the hordes pot and the clay oven.

The offer takes place outdoors and is aimed at students of the
Grades 1 to 10.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: at least 2 weeks in advance
Duration: at least 6 hours
Group size: 20 to 80 people
Admission per person: €15.00
Cameras or camera phones can be brought along for documentation.

Welzow Archaeotechnical Centre

Documentation of mining-related resettlement in the "Archive of Vanished Places" Horno

The Archive of Vanished Places documents the history of those 137 places in Lusatia that had to make way for open-cast mines, either completely or in part. The exhibition presents the multi-layered and complex topic of "Resettlement in Lusatia" in five central multimedia areas: "Introduction", "Resettlement", "Sorbs / Wends", "Sorbian / Wendish Language Laboratory" and "Battle for Horno".

A special attraction is the walk-on map carpet on which all 137 dredged sites in Lusatia can be navigated to using mobile, interactive readers (info suckers). Visitors to the exhibition are asked questions about the exhibition topics, and with navigation aids they can find the answers in the multimedia stations and info suckers.

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at schoolchildren.
Grades 5 to 12 (approx. 11 to 18 years)
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: 3 days before at the latest
Duration: at least 1 hr.
Group size: up to 15 people
Admission per person: € 0.50

Archive of Vanished Places Horno

On the trail of Erwin Strittmatter in the "Old School" Graustein

The former classroom of the "Old School" houses two exhibitions: "Strittmatter and Graustein" and "School in Strittmatter's Time". In addition, there is the possibility to go on the picture rally "In the footsteps of Strittmatter in Graustein". Various tasks have to be solved in small groups in order to learn more about the writer's childhood years in Graustein, as well as interesting facts about the nature and history of the place and the region. In the picture folder, some stations are also covered with literary excerpts from Erwin Strittmatter's "Shop Trilogy".

The programme takes place indoors and outdoors and is aimed at pupils in grades 3 to 8.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before
Duration: approx. 2.5 hrs.
Group size: up to 20 people

"Old School" Graustein