"Stary Lud - The Encounter with the Ancient People" - a journey back in time to the 10th/11th century at the Dissen Museum of Local History

"Stary Lud - The Encounter with the Ancient People" - a journey back in time to the 10th/11th century at the Dissen Museum of Local History

" Stary lud - The encounter with the ancient people" - a Slavic journey through time to the 10th/11th century. Introduction to the early settlement history of the Sorbs/Wends as well as their clothing in the early Middle Ages. In projects, the pupils can understand for themselves what life might have been like in the 10th/11th century.
The students choose from the 3 project offers:
1. metal crafts and making fire,
2. kitchen and nutrition
3. from sheep to clothing,
one in which they will work.

Decorate your own Sorbian Easter eggs at the Dissen Museum of Local History

Each pupil can beautifully decorate their own Easter eggs with Sorbian motifs using the wax reserve technique and learn interesting facts about the symbolism of the patterns.

These working materials must be brought along:
Hard-boiled or blown-out eggs

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at pre-school children up to grade 7.
Dates: 4 weeks before Easter by arrangement
Pre-registration: 4 weeks before at the latest
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Group size: 6 to 30 people

By arrangement, various offers of the local history museum can be combined with each other.

Museum of local history Dissen

Snowflake stars - Snĕžynka - Handicrafts and fairy tales at Dissen Local History Museum

The pre-Christmas season is also mysterious and mystical. Because there is so little snow, the children can use scissors and paper to create their own beautiful snowflake stars for the window or for Christmas cards. After the busy cutting and gluing, the Sorbian snowflake "Snĕžynka", played by Bernd Pittkunings, seduces all the children into the world of fairy tales and legends.

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at pre-school children up to grade 7.
Dates: October to January by arrangement Monday to Friday
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before at the latest
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Group size: 6 to 30 people

By arrangement, various offers of the local history museum can be combined with each other.

Museum of local history Dissen

Baked Apple Time - Baked Apple and Fairy Tales at the Dissen Museum of Local History

The museum's autumn and Christmas offer: children's laughter will be heard again because it's baked apple time. The children fill their own apple with nuts, homemade jam and sultanas. While the apple then roasts in the oven for 40 minutes, Bernd Pittkunings tells fairy tales and sings songs about food. Afterwards, the children can finally taste what a baked apple tastes like.

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at pre-school children up to grade 7.
Dates: October to February by arrangement Monday to Friday
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before at the latest
Group size: 6 to 30 people

By arrangement, various offers of the local history museum can be combined with each other.

Museum of local history Dissen

Ceramic pendants for the Easter and Christmas season - handicrafts with clay at the Dissen local history museum

Patterns are pressed into prepared Easter tags or poinsettias in damp clay. These are later fired and make beautiful gifts or decorative pieces for a spring or Christmas bouquet.

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at students in grades 1 to 12.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before at the latest
Group size: 6 to 30 people

By arrangement, various offers of the local history museum can be combined with each other.

Museum of local history Dissen

Stories around the sweet porridge - Cooking and fairy tale telling at the Dissen Museum of Local History

"Once upon a time in Africa... The guenons had planted beans and wanted to harvest them to cook themselves a porridge. But ..." Would you like to know what happens next? Then visit us at the Dissen Museum of Local History and let's dive into fairy tales from all over the world that are all about food. We will cook a sweet porridge together, and while the millet is simmering on the cooker, Bernd Pittkunings will tell stories and fairy tales about food from the past and present.

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at pre-school children up to grade 7.
Dates: by arrangement Monday to Friday
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before at the latest
Duration: 1.5 to 2 hours
Group size: 6 to 30 people

By arrangement, various offers of the local history museum can be combined with each other.

Museum of local history Dissen

Eating and drinking keeps body and soul together - about stockpiling and meal sequence in the Dissen Museum of Local History

The children are given a guided tour of the museum on the topic of "Nutrition in earlier times". They learn about dishes and food sequences at festivals and can make butter and herb curd themselves. The children collect herbs and process them into herb curd. They are allowed to churn their own butter and eat it with fresh bread.

The programme takes place indoors and outdoors and is aimed at pre-school children up to grade 12.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before at the latest
Group size: 6 to 30 people

By arrangement, various offers of the local history museum can be combined with each other.

Museum of local history Dissen

Listen - join in! - Songs to listen to, sing along and join in at the Dissen local history museum

Songs to listen to, sing along and join in: Why the dragon doesn't fetch the princess, animals in the fire pond, a young man in love, dreams of Africa and the holidays are sung about in songs by the song poet Pittkunings.

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at pre-school children up to grade 4.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before at the latest
Group size: 6 to 30 people

By arrangement, various offers of the local history museum can be combined with each other.

Museum of local history Dissen

On the trail of Lusatian bricks and light railways in the "Old Brickworks" Klein Kölzig

The tradition of brick firing in Klein Kölzig goes back far into the 19th century. After the first small private brickworks had been established since 1840, the public limited company Großer Kurfürst Berlin built a brickworks in Klein Kölzig in 1892/94, the centrepiece of which was a ring kiln with 18 firing chambers. In 1920, a light railway was put into operation for the transport of clay, which had a length of 4.5 km. Visitors can expect to see the only brickworks with a completely preserved ring kiln in the region. During the guided tour of the object, insights are given into the production processes marked by heavy manual labour and, among other things, the secret is revealed as to why the building survived the difficult period after production ceased. Finally, there is a ride on the light railway on the circular route.

The programme takes place indoors and outdoors and is aimed at students in grades 4 to 12.
Dates: Monday to Sunday by arrangement
Pre-registration: 1 week before at the latest
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Group size: 10 to 25 people
Admission per person: € 3.50
Group prices on individual request
Ride on the brickyard railway:
per child: € 1.50, per adult: € 3.00

Local history room Klein Kölzig

Arts and crafts and village history in the Klein Kölzig local history museum

Exhibits, documents and photos on the history of the village, on village life and its associations, on mining, on the Klein Kölziger brickworks and on the local craftsman (woodcarver Karl Gierscher) have been collected in the local history room.

The offer takes place indoors and is aimed at pupils in grades 1 to 10.
Dates: by arrangement
Pre-registration: 2 weeks before at the latest

Local history room Klein Kölzig