Discover the plants of Lesvos

The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest successfully continues its educational programmes every weekend. This week children from the local communities have the unique opportunity to explore the island’s natural heritage and be inspired by it.

On Saturday 19h September at 10:30 p.m. children have the opportunity to become young researchers and study both the fossilized and the present-day plants of Lesvos island by participating at the educational programme “Discover the plants of Lesvos”. They will explore the plant fossils of the Lesvos Petrified Forest in the museum’s permanent exhibition halls and afterwards visit its outdoor botanical garden to observe the plant species that grow today in the island. They will collect information, record it on the educational sheets, process it and draw their conclusions about the past and current vegetation of the island and the climate changes in the last 20,000,000 years. At the end, they will get to know all the necessary steps to start their own Plant Collection and learn how to dry plants and flowers and create with simple materials a herbarium to store and protect their collection.

For more information and reservations you can contact the museum at +30 22530 54434/lesvospf@otenet.gr.