Activities for children in MPT

GUIDED TOURS

Children learn about the history of how messages were transferred from prehistory to today, they can test their skills in Morse code and make phone calls through manual and automatic telephone exchanges.
Groups are limited to 25 persons. Prior reservations for guided tours are mandatory and must be done at least a week before visiting. Guided tours for school groups are 60 minutes long. The museum has a maximum capacity of two groups at the same time.
The Museum of Post and Telecommunications can prepare a TECHNICAL SCIENCE DAY, in combination with a guided tour of the museum collections and a selected workshop.

PRICE LIST
Entrance fee: 1,60 €/person (school children in a group)
Guided tour of a school group: 15,00 €
Guided tour of a school group in English language: 25,00 €

GUIDED TOURS FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED

The Please Touch museum path is dedicated to our blind and visually impaired visitors as well as all other curious and enquiring souls that want to explore and learn about our technological heritage through their senses.
The path’s first section presents the history of postal services from Antiquity to today. Children can touch a milestone, which once stood next to a Roman road and informed travellers how far everything was. They can read the legend of Saint Ulrich on a medieval scroll, learn how fast messages travelled in the past, hear the proclamation of a town crier, listen to the melodies of the post horn, and touch various types of writing instruments. In 1919, Slovenians issued our first postage stamps, the Verigar series. The museum has an enlarged stamp from this series, which children can touch. The collection also includes various means of transport, postal packages, a bumping table, mailbags, and mailsacks.
The latter part of the exhibition offers insight into the history of telecommunications from telegraphs to smartphones. Children can use a Morse telegraph and teleprinters, test themselves in making phone calls with the help of manual, automatic and digital switchboards, and reminiscent about their first mobile phone. Just a few years ago, it was mostly the blind and visually impaired who handled the profession of a switchboard telephonist. The exhibition also offers children the opportunity to listen to a short history of the first mobile phones and feel the 3D model of the world’s first mobile phone.
The Please Touch museum path is a collaboration with the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

PRICE LIST
No entrance fee for disabled people
Guided tour of school children: 15,00 €/group
Guided tour of school children in English language: 25,00 €/group

WORKSHOPS

We offer creative and educational workshops for children of various age groups, which relate to the museum’s contents and are done under the guidance our museum guides. The workshops are 30 to 60 minutes long.
The Museum of Post and Telecommunications can prepare a TECHNICAL AND SCIENCE DAY in combination with a guided tour of the museum collections and a workshop of your choice. Workshops from the Technical Museum of Slovenia in Bistra can also be done at the Museum of Post and Telecommunications in Polhov Gradec, by prior arrangement only.

Workshop	Most suitable for	Price/person
Making of greeting cards	Suitable for pupils of 1., 2. and 3. thriad	1,50 €
Postcard	Suitable for pupils of 2. thriad	1,00 €
Post cap	Suitable for pupils of 2. in 3. thriad	1,00 €
Post horn	Suitable for pupils of 2. in 3. thriad	1,50 €
Making of rubber stamp	Suitable for kindergartens and pupils of 1., 2. in 3. thriad	1,50 €
The game “The post through time”	Suitable for pupils of 3. thriad	2,00 €
Telegraph	Suitable for pupils of 3. thriad and secondary schools	2,00 €

MAKING OF GREETING CARDS Otroci izdelajo voščilnice za različne priložnosti: za rojstni dan, za Valentinovo, za Veliko noč, za materinski dan, za božič in novo leto. Delavnica, ki traja 45 minut, je primerna za vrtčevske otroke in učence 1., 2. in 3. triade ter se navezuje na predmete: Spoznavanje okolja, Družba, Tehnika in tehnologija. PRICE: 1,00 €
POSTCARD Otroci si ogledajo različne oblike poštnih pošiljk ter spoznajo obliko dopisnice in pravilno naslavljanje. Na dopisnico pravilno napišejo naslov in besedilo, nato pa na sprednjo stran narišejo želeni motiv. Učenci preberejo svoje dopisnice in jih oddajo v muzejski nabiralnik. Delavnica, ki traja 30 minut, je primerna za učence 2. triade in se navezuje na predmet Slovenščina. PRICE: 1,00 €
POST CAP Iz kartona, na katerem je natisnjen model, otroci s škarjami izrežejo vse sestavne dele in jih s spenjačem spnejo v čepico. Ob tem spoznajo različne poštne uniforme. Delavnica, ki traja 45 minut, je primerna za učence 2. in 3. triade. Delavnica se navezuje na predmete: Spoznavanje okolja, Družba. PRICE: 1,00 €
POST HORN Učenci si izdelajo svoj poštni rog, ki je skoraj čisto tak kot pravi, čeprav je izdelan iz gumijaste cevi in lijaka, okrašen pa s pisanim cofom. Nanj pa je mogoče celo trobiti! Delavnica, ki traja 45 minut do 1 ure, je primerna za učence 1. in 2. triade ter se navezuje na predmete: Spoznavanje okolja. PRICE: 1,50 €
MAKING A RUBBER STAMP Otroci iz kompaktne pene izrežejo želeni motiv in ga prilepijo na leseno kocko, da nastane štampiljka, ki jo ob koncu preizkusijo. Ob tem spoznajo namen uporabe štampiljk na pošti. Delavnica, ki traja 45 minut do 1 ure, je primerna za učence 1., 2. in 3. triade ter se navezuje na predmete: Spoznavanje okolja, Naravoslovje in tehnika, Tehnika in tehnologija. PRICE: 1,50 €
THE GAME »THE POST THROUGH TIME« Igra otroke na zabaven način popelje skozi vsa zgodovinska obdobja. Otroci dobijo že natisnjeno in na platnu kaširano osnovo ter natisnjena navodila. Sami morajo izdelati embalažo in pobarvati štiri lesene figurice. Delavnica, ki traja 1 uro, je primerna za učence 3. triade in se navezuje na predmete: Zgodovina, Odkrivajmo preteklost mojega kraja. PRICE: 2,00 €
TELEGRAPH Otroci iz sestavnih delov sestavijo preprosta oddajnik in sprejemnik telegrafa, ki ju med seboj povežejo z žico. Pri tem se s pomočjo slikovnega gradiva seznanijo z različnimi načini prenosa sporočil na daljavo pred izumom telegrafa. Pri sestavljanju telegrafa spoznajo sestavne dele in delovanje preprostega telegrafa. S pomočjo delovnega lista si otroci v parih v Morsovi abecedi pošiljajo zabavna sporočila. Delavnica, ki traja 45 minut, je primerna za učence 3. triade in se navezuje na predmete: Zgodovina, Fizika, Tehnika in tehnologija, Elektrotehnika. PRICE: 2,00 €

PROGRAMME FOR KINDERGARTENS

You are warmly welcome to visit our Museum of Post and Telecommunications, dislocated unit of the Technical Museum of Slovenia, which has its premises in a renovated castle in Polhov Gradec.
Children will learn about the history of Post and Telecommunications in a fun, playful and at the same time informative way. We will present the time when we are eagerly waiting for the postman with the latest news and when cell phones were not yet part of our everyday lives. We will listen to the melodies of the postal Horn, get to know the means of transport, a variety of postal items and try to telephone.

Planning a visit:
You can choose just the guided tour or just the workshop. Combination of the two provides comprehensive, affordable and effective way to learn about the museum. Guided tour begins with a motivational introduction, which is followed by the main part of the selected highlights and ending with the thematic workshops. The program can be tailored to your needs and desires.

Price list
Admission preschoolers: free
Guided tour: 15 € / group of up to 22 children, lasting up to 45 minutes
Each workshop: 1,5 € / child, lasting up to 45 minutes
The combination of guided tour and workshop: € 37 / group (up to 22 children, lasting up to 90 minutes) Target group: children aged 4 and 5 years (with the help of teachers)