European Archaeology Days / Journées Européennes de l
06/13/2025 — 06/15/2025
The Institute of Archeology is a scientific research institution that performs its activities in the field of archaeology. The Institute carries out basic scientific research, processing, interpretation and evaluation of archaeological sources, with the aim of their valorization in the national, regional and European context. Through its entire scientific activity, research and dissemination of results to stakeholders in scientific, professional, cultural and educational activities, as well as the general public, the Institute raises awareness of the need to preserve and valorize Croatian archaeological heritage as one of the fundamental determinants of national identity. As a part of the European Archaeology Days, join us in live workshops, and in entertainment contents for children and adults.
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LIVE WORKSHOP
Date: Friday, June 13th 2025 (between 10 AM and 4 PM)
Location: Institute of Archaeology, Ulica kralja Zvonimira 6, Zagreb
Age: Recommended for children from 6 to 12 years
Participation: Free, with prior registration to [javascript protected email address]">[javascript protected email address]
Workshop program:
- Workshop: Little mosaic masters
Children will make their own mosaics inspired by ancient patterns. Through the workshop, they will be introduced to the mosaic technique and the symbolism of Roman motifs.
- Workshop: Roman doll rooms
Together, we will make models of three spaces from a Roman home:
- Triclinium (1st century dining room)
- Stibadium (4th century dining room)
- Culina (kitchen)
Children will use cardboard, fabric and modelling paste to decorate mini rooms for Roman dolls and learn what life was like in an ancient home.
- Workshop: Fresco painting – Rome on the wall
With guidance, young participants will paint frescoes using a child-friendly technique, creating motifs inspired by Roman wall paintings from Pompeii and other sites.
Note:
- Children can take home everything they make.
- We recommend wearing older clothes (possibility of getting dirty during the workshops).
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Digital offer
Project holders: Institute of Archeology, Zagreb in cooperation with the Women's General Gymnasium of the Society of the Sisters of Charity (ŽOG), Zagreb
Felix's journey along the Danube
Interactive workshop on Roman river boats. The workshop was designed and created by pupils under the mentorship of prof. Irena Marija Vojvodić and Ivana Ožanić Roguljić. The workshop was supported by the Ministry of Education and Sports and the Living Danube Limes project.
For all age groups.
GAME
The interactive game of connecting objects with a house from the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) is designed as an educational material and at the same time an exercise of fine motor skills.
In the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) only stone and bone tools were used as well as bone ornaments. Houses were made of wood, wattle and doub and were most likely covered with reed or branches. Pottery vessels of various shapes, sizes and decoration were used in the houses, and fabric was made on looms (spindle whorls or loom weights were found). If the settlements were near rivers or lakes, fishing equipment was used.
Connect the objects with the house in the drawing.
Intended for children and other age groups.
NEOLITHIC BILINGUAL WORDS GAME
The bilingual Croatian-English words game is an educational game intended for school-age children in which basic concepts about the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) are learned.
Find ten archaeological Neolithic words …
In the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) only stone and bone tools were used as well as bone ornaments. Wood houses were constructed (houses with wooden construction) which in some settlements were renewed in layers one above the other, thus creating settlements that we see today as artificial hills (tells). In archaeological excavations, all these settlement layers over a long period of time are called stratigraphy. In the houses ceramic pottery was used, among which coarse and large pots in the early Neolithic were decorated on the outside with barbotine, i.e. applied clay paste from which ornaments were formed and which also allowed the surface of the pots to remain rough for easier handling.
…and learn them in Croatian!
Intended for children.
COLOUR THE PAST
Interactive educational colouring book / cartoon intended for preschool and school children.
Archaeology is a science that aims to reconstruct life in the past. Much like today, people in the past made and used a variety of objects in their daily lives. The remains of these objects are called archaeological finds, and they are often the main means by which archaeologists reconstruct life in the past. These objects are sometimes of a mysterious nature, and the role of archaeologists is to discover what the objects were used for, how people used them in the past, and what they can tell us about their lives.
Become an archaeologist too, colour the past and discover what some mysterious objects were used for!
The colouring book contains drawings of archaeological objects intended for colouring and / or supplementing the drawings.
The objects are accompanied by a short educational text. The purpose of this colouring book is of an educational nature and the desire is to stimulate creativity and imagination!
Intended for children.
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