The museum has been offering guided tours and workshops for kindergartens and school classes of all grades and school types for over 40 years. Learning outside the familiar surroundings of the classroom enables pupils to have a direct encounter with original objects. They can also explore various archaeological sites on our outdoor tours.
What actually is a museum? What are its tasks? Who decides what is shown and why do we actually collect things?
The drone is one of the oldest musical instruments in the world. The indigenous people of Europe, Africa and Australia, the Aborigines, were already playing it 25,000 years ago. They call the instrument „tjurunga“. In English, they say „bull roarer“, which means „bull roarer“. Quite a fitting name. That's what you'll hear when you try out your very own bull roarer.
Leather is one of the oldest raw materials of all, from which people have been making beautiful and useful things since the Stone Age. Small leather bags and pendants are made from leather in this workshop.
Who doesn't know Automatix, the blacksmith from the Asterix comics, who likes to start a fight over a few not-so-fresh fish or a certain bard's discordant tones. However, the Celtic blacksmiths are unlikely to have been quite so violent. Anyone who looks at the artistic and technically highly sophisticated everyday objects or weapons can see this for themselves.
Even better, of course, is to try it yourself. Thomas Dorsch offers a blacksmithing course for children and young people based on models from the Kelheim oppidum.
First, the basic techniques of blacksmithing are explained and then various forged items such as a Celtic key are produced using original finds from the Archaeological Museum in Kelheim. The course fee includes the provision of tools and materials.
In this workshop, Celtic-inspired pendants and spirals are bent from thick and thin gold and silver wire and a necklace is made for each child.
Have you ever been fascinated by the beautiful glass beads in museums that look like little sweets? Decorative glass beads have always been popular - from ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire to the Bavarians. Create your own individual pieces of jewelry from polymer clay - inspired by original finds in the museum!
Life in the Roman legions is often portrayed as constant excitement, with endless campaigns subjugating peoples in Europe and the Middle East. But in reality, Roman soldiers also had leisure time. As the dice and tokens in the exhibition show, soldiers played games to pass the time. The round mill was one of the Roman soldiers' favorite games.
In the workshop, you will make your own round mill and experience what Roman soldiers used to pass the time in their free time.
What did Kelheim and the life of its inhabitants look like in the Middle Ages? What were the most important buildings and who lived and worked there? In the museum you will learn about the town of the Wittelsbach dynasty and then design your own medieval Kelheim.
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