Children’s Center
The Museum Children's Center is open all year round – 7 days a week, with summer and winter working hours.
Working times
During the winter season (October – April), the Children's Center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. During the summer season (May – September), it is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Organized visits are available only upon prior request.
For further information and requests, please, contact the museum pedagogue at edu@etar.bg and ++359 88 356 95 83.
For further information and requests, please, contact the museum pedagogue at edu@etar.bg and ++359 88 356 95 83.
I Know and I Can Hall
Free admission
There are several modules at the I Know and I Can Hall: these enable the youngest and most curious visitors aged from 7 to 10 to get in touch with the lifestyles and traditions of the past.
Modules
Whoever is in the know, he stops here
At an improvised market children have fun while they make calculations and bargain for their goods. They easily adopt the roles of buyers or sellers, and the museum organizer in charge helps them to learn curious things about old weights and measures, find out what rabosh means or how full for empty is exchanged.
Once upon a time
This module of the program gives children the opportunity to present their favorite folk tales by using puppets and set design in a children's theater.
Discover to learn
This game is a great chance for parents and children to have fun together. Using memory cards that present various ancient Bulgarian crafts and tools, they can check their knowledge and memory.
How granny and grandpa played games – old and forgotten games and toys
Most of us remember a few nursery rhymes used in the most popular games played by kids. Some of the games include "Open, O dear king, the gates", "O dear king, happy name day!", "Cobra", "Blind man's buff", "Bear" and "Tip-cat". Inquisitive visitors can learn these games on the lawn outside the Museum Children's Center.
Go, Create, Little Hands Hall
Entrance ticket price: BGN 6
The Go, Create, Little Hands Hall is the scene of thematic workshops where children aged from 7 to 14 can craft traditional household items and also ones related to the festive rites of the past.
The price of the entrance ticket covers the use of the listed modules plus participation in an optional creative workshop:
The price of the entrance ticket covers the use of the listed modules plus participation in an optional creative workshop:
- Making a Clay Figure in a Mold
- Clay Figure Coloring
- Throwing a Basic Pot on a Potter's Wheel
- Painting a Finished Earthenware Pot
- Work with a Pyrograph on Wood
Modules
Pottery workshop
Here children will dirty their hands a bit and feel how a piece of clay is recreated into a dish, vase or jug. Younger visitors can enjoy taking a cast of earthen figurines that can be painted afterwards. The more agile ones can try to make an earthen pot using the technique of fourshove for which clay strips have been made in advance.
The magic of fabrics
This module in the program enables kids to learn about the diversity and beauty of the traditional Bulgarian patterns, try to weave on a horizontal or vertical small loom and thus find out whether it was easy for their great grandmothers to make with their own hands everything necessary for their homes – rugs, carpets, cushions etc.
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