Children and Family (Family Educational Programs)

A series of programs entitled "The young ones bring the older ones to the Museum" is specifically designed for children from 6 until 13 years of age and their parents. The objective of these programs, in which young and old participate together, is to make the Museum a meeting place not only for school units, but also for families, making a family visit to the museum a unique experience.

For more information,
You can contact the Educational Programs office (Ms. Dina Bendana, Tel. 22510-47033, email: lesvospf@otenet.gr)

The game of discovery in the Petrified Forest

The original game of "Lost Treasure" in the permanent exhibition halls of the Museum brings the participants into contact with the processes and phenomena that led to the creation of the forest and helps them get to know the types of plants that lived 20 million years ago in Lesvos, through the Museum collections and the fossilized trees still in their natural place of growth in the Sigri Park.
The game begins in the audiovisual room where, with the help of a special presentation, participants meet the tree species of the Petrified Forest.

Via a multimedia presentation, participants are transported millions of years into the past to visit an impressive recreation of the forest and the animals that lived there, as well as its creation.

At the end, the problem is presented in the form of questions, the answers of which supplement the areas of vegetation of the Petrified Forest game, in an educational model that the Museum created specifically for the educational game. A tour of the permanent exhibition halls of the museum and Sigri Park follows the game.

Small Palaeontologists

The objective of this educational program are for our small friends to get to know the methods and aims of palaeontological excavation, the fossilized plants that once lived in the past in the Petrified Forest and to observe their similarities and differences with the modern plants of Lesvos.

The program also aims to sensitize the participants on issues of the protection and promotion of the Petrified Forest, natural monuments, and the geological and natural heritage of Lesvos, thus combining knowledge and experience with science.

In the program, the children can participate in the original activity of excavating and identifying fossils, with the help of Museum technicians and special excavation tools, in the special "Georama" discovery plot which includes a model excavation pit with a grid. They can then compare the petrified remains with the exhibits of the Museum and also with modern plants of Lesvos. Thus the educational excavation activity is joined with scientific palaeontological research.