What is a Museum? (available from  year 2025)

Target audience: Grade 1–4, Grade 5–9

This lesson aims to introduce pupils to the museum’s history and its activities – collecting and preserving objects, research, restoration, and promotion to the public – and to raise awareness of the museum’s functions in preserving and promoting cultural heritage. The lesson is particularly suitable for 5th grade students studying the topic “How to Research and Preserve Historical Evidence?” in the subject “Social Studies and History”.

Procedure: first, the pupils learn about the museum’s more than 150 years of existence, listening to a narration by the museum educator. Then, working in groups, they look at and learn to research and describe the museum’s objects. Using photographs of museum objects, pupils complete a task that helps them understand how objects come into the museum collection, how they are stored, what the most interesting collections are, which professions work in the museum, how research is carried out, why it is necessary to preserve objects that are representative of our times, and many other secrets that are not visible to the everyday visitor.