Educations

Children go from exhibit to exhibit and listen to the museum’s story and open the letters of the names of the exhibits while wrapping a ball of thread.

About the making of dyes in ancient times and the colors that were extracted from plants. An opening of the chest –  multi-colored fabrics, knitwear, and embroidery are displayed. Children check out colorful pottery. Various tasks, games, and coloring of drawn exhibits.

The story of the bread is told, and the children themselves act out the story about the bread.

This is a great opportunity to create a souvenir handmade key chain decorated with national motives. The educational activity is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian flag! Let’s celebrate the Freedom together!

We use soap every day, but we don’t think about how it came about, how our grandparents or great-grandparents washed, and what is its composition. Lecturers “laundry ladies” will tell the story of the origin of soap, present the methods of soap production, introduce washing tools and their use. You will hear about the tools and you will wash in wooden troughs with metal and wooden grates yourself. After getting acquainted with the washing tools, we will invite you to a creative workshop, where you will make soap of custom aroma, shape, and color!

The Laboratory For the Curious combines history, natural sciences, and chemical experiments into one whole. During the education, students will experiment independently: they will observe various chemical reactions, explain the physical properties of objects, become familiar with concepts, and learn various historical facts. It will be possible to try out magnets of various sizes and shapes, create rain in a glass, make a volcano or even snow. Before conducting the experiments, students will be introduced to the safety rules and will wear protective clothing.

Acquaintance with tools and products of woodworkers, shoemakers, blacksmiths, weavers, potters, and various tasks.

The children get to know the structure of the hive, examine beekeeping tools, learn about bee products. Later, they watch a video about catching a swarm and perform interesting tasks themselves. The last and most anticipated task is the tasting of bee products. For correct answers, the teams are rewarded with honeycomb eyes from which, like bees, they “build their own honeycombs”.

Have you ever had to create a souvenir, a piece of jewelry or any other cozy little thing with your own hands? Come to our “tiny art lab” and learn the entire history of gypsum! We promise, we will let you touch the gypsum that creates our landscape, and even color the souvenir that you made in your favorite colors!

Education participants become creators of small miracles. Using various printing tools and techniques, they decorate the gingerbread, then taste it or take it home nicely wrapped as a souvenir!

We will invite you to travel through the mysterious world of herbs – we will introduce you to the most useful medical herbs, how to collect them, store them, use them, and make herbal tea. You will create a linen bag decorated with folk ornaments, suitable to store herbs.

You will feel like real detectives and follow the trail of the criminal, in order to find out who dared to steal the original copy of  the Act of Independence of Lithuania of 16 February, discovered and donated to the museum of the Pasvalys region by professor Liudas Mažylis himself. The detective investigation will lead to 12 objects of interest in the city of Pasvalys, which the detectives will not only thoroughly inspect in search of clues, but also get to know their history, characteristics, and uniqueness. You will follow the clues left by the criminal – the evidence bags,…

Not interesting, simple, boring? Or maybe on the contrary – unexpected, unusual, amazing? We invite those who are bored with ordinary birthdays, those who want to experience something new and unusual. You will become a treasure hunter, and when you find it, you will miraculously go to the old Pasvalis cinema and enjoy the old animation… Surprises await everyone who wants to celebrate their birthday in our museum! Interested? We invite children and adults, families, employee teams, and members of various organizations to participate.

After getting acquainted with the history of the development of leather shoes, visitors will make their own ancient leather folk shoes.

Acquaintance with the exhibition, practical tasks and tests.