Adult education
Guided tours at the permanent exhibition
Impressive and especially living history can you find at the Sorbian museum. Learn some facts about this rich culture of the sorbian people as well as your first sorbian words. There is loads to discover – three floors full of sorbian history, traditional costumes and customs as well as sorbian art and literature.
If you want a guided tour by us: 1 or 1,5 h. Afterwards you are very welcome to enjoy a cup of coffee down at our foyer.
Book in advance, please, via tel.: 03591/2708700 or via e-mail: sekretariat@sorbisches-museum.de
Guided tours at the special exhibition
26.05.2024 – 27.10.2024
The structural engineer Eberhard Deutschmann.
Between Lusatian timber construction and industrialized construction
The German-Sorbian structural engineer Eberhard Deutschmann (1926 – 2005) is one of the most important representatives of industrialized construction and engineering in the GDR and internationally. Not only was he a structural engineer, but also a university professor, construction researcher and monument conservator. The exhibition is the first of it´s kind and shows Deutschmann´s projects in six stations. At the same time the exhibition honours the 20th anniversary of his death and his 100th birthday. The exhibition is in Sorbian and German.
Book in advance, please, via tel.: 03591/2708700 or via e-mail: ticket@sorbisches-museum.de
Afternoon activities for adults
Coffee at three o’clock
Ones in each quarter on a wednesday, the Sorbian Museum invites all those who are interested to coffee at three o’clock. After a short entertaining lecture on a typical seasonal theme or an exceptional object of the collection, you can exchange thoughts and memories while enjoying a cup of coffee and cake.
This is a good opportunity for all to learn something new about the museum’s work and visit the current special exhibition.
Admission:
4,50 € including coffee and cake.
Museum education
The Sorbian Museum has entertaining exhibits and exciting projects for visitors of all ages.
To the history of the Sorbs
In a short time travel we explain the history of the Sorbs, language differences, costumes and customs. It is also taught, how it feels to live as a minority, to speak two mother tongues and to use them in the everyday life.
In the students cabinet the students become active themselves. So getting to know the Sorbian language becomes a children’s game.
Suitable for: primary school, secondary school / grammar school and special school children
Childhood and school in the past
We want to adventure the life 150 years ago, how children lived in the past, which toys they had and which tasks they solved. With several exhibits we want to “sense” the time of our grandparents.
Fitted with stylus, pen and ink the children learn to use the old handwriting and with the help of sayings, rhymes and songs the sorbian language is brought closer to the children.
Furthermore the children get to know a lot about school life in the 19th and 20th century.
Suitable for: pre-school, primary school, secondary school / grammar and special school children
On the tracks of Sorbian legends
This program leads at first through the permanent exhibition, where the children can search for the hidden legendary figures. The respective legends and fairy tales will be presented for this. After this everyone can draw his own favorite character.
Suitable for: pre-school, primary school, secondary school / grammar school and special school children.
What pictures tell us
In the gallery of the Sorbian Museum we select pictures, which appeal to us. We try to describe them with word and sounds and retrace them.
Who invents the best short story about his picture?
Suitable for: pre-school, primary school, secondary school / grammar and special school children
Sorbian personalities and national identity
As an entry, the course of the Sorbian national movement is presented. In a presentation and in free work the students get to know important personalities like for example Schmoler, Mucke, Mirtschink, Grollmuß and Bart-Ćišinski.
Also included are exhibits, books, quotes and music from this time.
Suitable for: secondary school and grammar school
An adventurous city tour
Tracing in the old city of Bautzen – get know the city again!
At certain places the history comes alive by mastering tasks and answering questions.
Suitable for: primary School, special school, secondary and grammar school
Special exhibition
26.05.2024 – 27.10.2024
The structural engineer Eberhard Deutschmann
Between Lusatian timber construction and industrialized construction
The German-Sorbian structural engineer Eberhard Deutschmann (1926 – 2005) is one of the most important representatives of industrialized construction and engineering in the GDR and internationally. Not only was he a structural engineer, but also a university professor, construction researcher and monument conservator.
The exhibition is the first of it´s kind and shows Deutschmann´s projects in six stations. The first station is about Deutschmann´s early life, career and family. The second and third stations are about his early works and researches in the sorbian environment. The fourth and fifth chapters cover his work as a structural engineer in industrialized construction. The final station focuses on Deutschmann´s late work as a monumental conservator. At the same time the exhibition honours the 20th anniversary of his death and his 100th birthday. The exhibition is in Sorbian and German.
Hints
For organizational reasons, please inform us if more than 10 children will be attending the event. This number is only for orientation, but basically the number of participants should be at least 8 children / students plus assistants / teachers. In principle, a programme will take 60 – 90 minutes. Individual arrangements can also be made. Children from the district of Bautzen enter free of admission. An extra charge can apply for certain materials that are used during the relevant event.
For information on the content or the organisation of the museum’s educational programmes, please contact our assistant, Mrs. Monika Oschika – phone +49 (0)3591-270870-28 or send an email to m.oschika@sorbisches-museum.de
