Workshops prepared for children aged 6 - 10. Each meeting consists of a theoretical part during which Christmas customs and rites are discussed - both those celebrated in Warmia years ago and those that survived until the present day. The second part of the meeting is designed for doing an artistic work - preparing Christmas decorations and floral table decorations, the form and shape of which is taken from the objects traditionally made during the Advent time.

Ethnographic Workshops
The Art of Weaving
Moulding and Resting
the 3^rd - the 20^th
Monday - Friday
The Gazeta Olsztyńska House

Classes connected with the exhibition “Home Industries” designed for younger schoolchildren. Workshops consist of a theoretical part and a practical one, during which children prepare e.g. a pattern of a Mazurian stove-tile on their own.

“An Evening with a Nature Film”
The Ruffs. The Meadow

the 5th, Wednesday, 17.30 h
The Museum of the Nature in Olsztyn

Both films present Biebrza Bogs (Bagna Biebrzańskie) in the seventies of the 20^th century. The first one is devoted to the ruff - a bird that has come to be a symbol of the Biebrza National Park. The second film presents the life on a Biebrza River meadow and its inhabitants from early spring until autumn. Both films, made in the last century, present landscapes that have survived in Biebrza Valley until today only in few places.

“The Balts Workshops”
mgr Paweł Łuszyński:
Prussian Military Science in the
11^th to 13^th Centuries
the 6^th, Thursday, 18.00 h
The Museum of Warmia and Mazury
in Olsztyn

A young disciple of Prof. Białuński, this year’s graduate of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn is to discuss very interesting and still controversy-arousing issues of military sciences of Prussia. He is to refer to their weaponry and fighting methods as well as many other aspects of that much complicated subject.

The exhibition presents old Christmas cards collected by Ryszard Łopatka. Opening of the exhibition is to be accompanied by a poetry evening dedicated to the donors and benefactors of the Mazury Museum in Szczytno as well as by an accordion concert by Ewelina Nowakowska - a student of the Music Academy in Gdańsk from Szczytno.

The last workshop of the cycle during which its participants are to prepare printing works on their own.

“Cavata at the Castle of Olsztyn” Danuta Syrwid: The Statute of the Society of Abstinence from the Burning Beverages
the 9^th, Sunday, 16.30 h
 The Museum of Warmia and Mazury
in Olsztyn

During the period of the Partitions of Poland, the sobriety movement accomplished not only its statutory aims but also patriotic ones. It was developing in Warmia since the half of the 19^th century, mostly because of Father Walenty Tolsdorf’s initiative. The Statute of the Society, published in Braniewo in 1852, with hand-signed oaths of abstinence, is a rare document illustrating numerous aspects of this movement’s activity.

Tel.: 089-527-95-96, Faks: 527-20-39, E-mail: zamek@muzeum.olsztyn.pl