ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOLS AT THE MUSEUM FOR OLD TECHNIQUES

Teachers,

Visiting the Museum for Old Techniques involves

• walking and discovering the countryside
• a guided visit of the Museum
• the workshops
• the game "the secret of bread"
• the MOT game
• the demonstrations
• the children's loft

There are specially designed workshops for:

• levers
• lighting
• from grain to bread
• stonemasons marks
• building bridges
• the blacksmith
• wood

Principle: do-it-yourself

Duration: 1/2 day to 1 day

For the time being, these workshops are only offered in dutch.

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The children's loft

The MOT has a really special affection for wood, which was such an important material in the past. Many of today's everyday objects in plastic were made of wood in the past.

For this reason, the Museum has an exhibition about woodworking which shows you how wood was used and how it is still being used today. You are given a step-by-step overview of all the processes which are needed to work with wood: from cutting down a tree to sawing the planks and gluing the smallest wooden components.

Since the MOT believes that wood is so important, it wants to make the exhibition particularly interesting for younger visitors.

This is why we have created the "Children's loft".

Here, through play, children between 3 and 12 years old can learn all about wood: "How hard is wood?", "What does a tree look like from the inside?" and "What kind of things can you make using wood?"

The Children's loft has been specially designed for families with young children and with this new layout, we hope to be able to offer many visitors fun family activities.

Open:

• On weekdays from 9 am until 5 pm
• Weekends and holidays, from April to September from 2 pm until 6 pm