We invite you to familiarise yourself with the offer for classes 1–3 of primary schools. Each of the topics proposed below is realised at selected permanent exhibitions of the National Museum in Lublin.
Getting to know the Museum
The first visit to the Museum will be an opportunity to get to know the most important concepts related to museum art, such as: exhibit, exhibition or collection. Together we will reflect on the reason why museums exist and what the objects they collect can tell us.
Union of Lublin
We will talk about the Union of Lublin, one of the most important events in the history of Poland, next to the painting by master Matejko. Could the day of 1 July 1569 have looked like the artist had presented it? We will answer this question by analysing the available sources and the clues immortalised on the canvas.
Folk, colourful
Thanks to exhibits from the field of folk art, we will tell how life was under the straw roof. We will talk about daily duties, festive costumes and annual customs of the inhabitants of the Lublin countryside. Sculptures and paintings will introduce us to the colourful land of ethnography.
Treasures of the past
From where do we learn about the earliest human history? What treasures of the past does the ground hide? During the meeting at the archaeological exhibition we will talk about the tools and methods of the archaeologist’s work and get to know the oldest monuments from the Museum’s collection.
Train to art
Is it possible to paint feelings? Can music have colour? We will try to answer these and other questions by looking at paintings, from figurative to abstract.
Saints from the calendar
Why did St Michael stuff cabbage into a barrel and on St Francis’ day mouse looks for grains in the field? Which saint holds the lamb, and which lets the lark out of its purse? We will talk about the patron saints, their attributes and important dates in the ceremonial calendar of the Polish countryside.
Events accompanying the exhibition The Last Tenant of the Lubomirski Palace. General Mieczysław Lubomirski
Museum Lessons and Workshops
Visiting General – museum lesson with singing legion songs (up to 30 people)
Revived History – Polish Soldier 1914–1939 – workshops combined with the assembly of a model of a field cap (up to 20 people)
Memories from school: calligraphy, or learning to write carefully with Marysia and Jurek – calligraphy workshops (up to 20 people)
