Workshops, shows, museum lessons

The Museum of the Lublin University of Technology invites you to participate in educational workshops using exhibits from its collections. These classes offer an accessible and engaging way to learn about the world of science and technology, through direct contact with historic devices, interactive activities, and access to areas usually off-limits to visitors.

The workshops are designed for children and young people aged 6–14. Topics are adapted to suit the age of participants, and instructors ensure that content is presented in an engaging and understandable way.

Class topics:

1. When Grandma and Grandpa Were Young (for children aged 6–9)

• Tour of the permanent exhibition 'History and Technology',

Direct contact with devices from the 1970s and 1980s, such as televisions, radios, gramophones, tape recorders, telephones and typewriters.

Learning to type on mechanical typewriters.

2. From speech to the internet. The history of communication (for children aged 6–9).

• Learning about forms of interpersonal communication, from prehistory to the present day.
• Contact with historical communication inventions, including the telegraph and telephone.

Familiarisation with analogue telephones from the museum's collection.

• Making your own 'string telephone'.

3. The world through a lens. Optical phenomena and instruments (for children and young people aged 10–14).

• Tour of the exhibition, focusing on optical devices
• Learning about basic optical phenomena, such as how lenses and prisms work.

- Observing samples under a biological and metallographic microscope
- Presentation of own drawings on a graphoscope

Contact with optical devices, including research equipment, cameras and video cameras.

4. New life for old devices (for children and young people aged 6–14).

• Microscopic observation of samples
• Projection of own drawings on a graphoscope
• Writing on mechanical typewriters
• Playing classic computer games from previous decades.

Organisational information

Detailed information on dates, number of participants, class duration and possible fees is available by telephone or email.

Contact:
Lublin University of Technology Museum
Scientific and Technical Information Centre, Lublin University of Technology
36C Nadbystrzycka St., Room 308 A, 20-618 Lublin
Phone: (+48) 81 538 48 40
Anna Pomorska-Kowalczyk: a.pomorska-kowalczyk@pollub.pl
Agnieszka Wiśniewska: a.wisniewska@pollub.pl
Norbert Gabrylewicz: n.gabrylewicz@pollub.pl