For children and youths
All year round, school classes as well as kindergarten and nursery school groups can book hands-on active tours on the history of art, on the natural and regional history, on architecture, and, when seasonally available, on the Monastery Garden.
Please discuss topics and dates with us in advance. By arrangement, we can also organize a visit outside opening hours.
For preparation in class, we recommend the audio guide of the museum’s app.
Contact
Ines Darr
Phone: +49 (0) 3834 83 12 17
Email: darr{at}pommersches-landesmuseum.de
Korinna Friedrichs
Phone: +49 (0) 3834 83 12 22
Email: friedrichs@pommersches-landesmuseum.de
1. The day-to-day life at the monastery
“Ora & labora – A visit to the monastery”
We explore life behind the old walls of the former Franciscan monastery. Who lived here in the past? Who is Francis? How did the monks structure their day? When did they get up? What did they eat?
Children 5 years or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per child
2. The geological history
“The formation of the Baltic Sea”
After an evocative multimedia journey, we examine the plate shift that led to the formation of the Baltic Sea. In our section on geological history, we then learn a lot of interesting facts about our coastal landscape. Interesting objects such as dinosaur bones, exceptionally beautiful amber, and numerous fossils await us. We try to identify the different stones. And then we visit the Boulder Garden.
From grades 2 to 12
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
3. The Stone Age
“The trail left by stones”
In the Stone Age – a world without supermarkets and district heating systems – life was different from today. What did people eat, and how did they get their food? Where did they sleep? How did they deal with injuries and death?
Grade 5 or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
4. The Middle Ages
“Travelling with Matt through the Middle Ages”
We explore everyday things from the Middle Ages using objects, buildings, role play, film clips, models, and stagings.
Grade 5 or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
5. The Reformation
“Saxony and Pomerania – allies by marriage”
Together we watch the film “The Croy Tapestry Comes to Life” and then look at the invaluable original – one of the most significant testimonies of the Reformation in Pomerania. And we get to know one of Martin Luther’s closest confidants and companions, Johannes Bugenhagen, who was born in Pomerania.
Tip: Visit Greifswald Cathedral afterwards and enrich what you have experienced and learned.
Grade 5 or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
6. “Pomerania in the 20th century”
After a brief introduction, we watch the stop-motion film “Erwin and Klaus” by Cindy Schmid – a film about an escape story in which those fleeing end up in Ludwigsburg Castle, not far from the museum.
On our museum tour, we explore the exhibition “Pomerania in the 20th Century”. Here we encounter contemporary witnesses and examine the objects and stories associated with them.
Afterwards, we exchange views on selected objects, with open discussion and reflection.
14 years or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
7. The “Visitors’ Favourites” of the painting collection
“Colour Whirl”
After learning about van Gogh’s life through an illustrated biography, we look at his painting “A lane near Arles”.
And then we let off some steam at the easel with brush and paint.
5 years or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per child
8. “Visitors’ Favourites” of the painting collection
“Soulscape”
In front of the painting “Ruins of Eldena in the Giant Mountains” we immerse ourselves in the life and works of Caspar David Friedrich. Inspired by what we have seen and heard, we then create our own “soul painting” at easels in our atelier.
Grade 5 or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
9. “Visitors’ Favourites” of the painting collection
“Caspar David Friedrich, Vincent van Gogh & Co.”
We invite you on an active tour of the Convent House of the Franciscan monastery. Here we will delve into paintings by Frans Hals, Caspar David Friedrich, Vincent van Gogh, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Danish landscape painters and Usedom artists.
Grade 5 or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
10. Something for refugees
“Take a seat at the table!”
Here, a vivid film projection provides an introduction to the Pomeranian State Museum, its departments, and its outdoor area. A stone hewn for a monastery dating back to the era of monastic life on the grounds of the museum leads us to the department of the Middle Ages. There, we playfully learn what was on the dining table back then, what was cooked, and how, and what utensils people ate with. An old jug then takes us to the picture gallery and a still life by Georg Flegel, one of the most important German still-life painters of the Baroque period.
We then create our own still lives in our atelier.
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per participant
11. German-Polish Museum Rally
“Seek and ye shall find!”
On an active tour, we learn interesting facts about objects and pictures from the museum’s collection.
Among other things, we will encounter the expressionist painter Alexej von Jawlensky, some Iron Age face urns, the dinosaur Emausaurus ernsti, and the healing plants in the Monastery Garden of the Franciscan monks.
12 years or older
Duration: 1.5 h
Cost: € 3.50 per pupil
12. “On the road with Friedrich”
The Caspar David Friedrich Excursion
We will look at Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings in the Pomeranian State Museum. Afterwards, we will set out on foot or by bike along the romantic towpath in the direction of Wieck. And just like Caspar David Friedrich, we let the place and the Eldena Ruins inspire us to create our own works.
Whatever we find, see, or experience can be recorded in drawings, texts, photos, and sepia studies.
Duration: approx. 4 h
Costs: € 10.00 per pupil