Special educational activities

Access to cultural heritage is a fundamental human right, while taking part in the cultural life is a prerequisite for social inclusion and social participation. Museums are places of high cultural importance, with significant educational and social aspects. Therefore, are by definition accessible to all and welcoming to all visitors.

In the educational program ‘’Volcanoes and volcanic eruptions in Lesvos’’, the children are invited to travel millions of years ago to the geological past of Lesvos, of the Aegean and of Greece and to become familiar with phenomena and processes that cannot be directly observed, such as the volcanic phenomenon.

20 million years ago there were many active volcanoes in the northeastern Aegean region. In the island of Lesvos 5 large volcanic centers were discovered.

In the educational program ‘’I adopt and protect the Petrified Forest – Participate in cleaning and conservation activities of fossils’’, the children are called to become fossil conservators and as the conservators of the Museum , they have the opportunity to clean fossilized parts of tree trunks and leaves from the Petrified Forest of Lesvos.

19 million years ago, in the area of the Petrified Forest used to live one of the oldest mammals in Greece, the Lesvos Deinotherium.

The children are transported to the excavation site of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos along the road Kalloni – Sigri. Through a research route along the new road, they observe the works carried out at the construction site of the Petrified Forest, discover information about the conservation works and their results, identify and record the tools. At the same time, they identify and map the fossils, rocks, volcanic, tectonic and geomorphological structures, which they encounter.