“Wood and chisel”
Workshops for students of grades IV-VI of primary schools and all willing to try wood carving. In the summer classes are held in the Gallery of Sculptures by Franciszek Wójtowicz or in the Mill farmstead (object No. 45), in the winter – in the cottage from Strzemieszyce Wielkie.
- Price: 250 PLN / group of up to 12 people + admission tickets.
- Duration time: up to 3 hours.
- Time: all year round.
In the first part of the course you will visit the Gallery of Sculptures by Franciszek Wójtowicz. A collection of more than 700 sculptures presents fantastic imagery of Silesian people, colorful wooden birds and people characteristic of the landscape of the old village, including the sower, the ploughman, the harvester, the girl going to the well with buckets and the shepherds playing the pipe. In the second part – after discussing the principles of using sculpting tools – you will try to carve simple forms in wood or try to work with chisels on large sculptures.
“The Wind in the Wicker”
Workshop for students of grades IV-VI of primary schools and all people who still value wicker objects and consider them usable.
- Price: 250 PLN / group of up to 12 people + admission tickets.
- Duration time: up to 3 hours.
- Time: all year round.
In the interiors of houses belonging to the Museum’s exhibition there are arranged workshops of craftsmen, such as a shoemaker, potter and basket-maker in the cottage from Brusiek (1828). The cottage was dwelled by charcoal burners. An additional source of income for the family was picking plans and timber in the forest and manufacturing of wicker baskets. Wicker once densely covered the banks of the Mała Panew (District of Lubliniec). During workshops, you will learn the basic techniques of wicker weaving, necessary for plaiting baskets. You can take your work with you.
“Formed from clay”
Workshops for elementary school students and all those who would like to learn the secrets of making clay pots that were used to store foods and beverages.
- Price: 350 PLN / group of up to 12 people + admission tickets.
- Duration time: up to 3 hours.
- Time: all year.
In the interiors of historic cottages, furnished with furniture, appliances and tools there are arranged exhibitions presenting metal, stoneware, wooden and clay dishes and vessels placed as originally in the room, hallway or in the storage chamber. In one of the houses– the cottage from Kromolow – you will see the original pottery workshop arranged in the room. Making Plasticine figurines is one of the favorite games for children, developing manual skills and spatial imagination. However, the work of a potter, it is not a fun it’s a serious occupation. During workshops you will have an unusual opportunity to deal with clay – the material of which vessels of different usage were created for thousands of years.
