On horseback to the Museums - for the third year in a row

This year, as part of the museum-educational program On Horseback to the Museums, we will mark late autumn by meeting wooden horses in the Museums of Hrvatsko Zagorje.

Due to the success of the program in the past two years, the museum educators and curators of the MHZ have again prepared fun and educational weekend gatherings for individual visitors, children and families.

The program will be held from November 2 to December 7. The first five weekends in that period will be reserved for museum-educational workshops in all MHZ units (each museum will prepare a total of four workshops during those weekends according to the attached schedule), while on Saturday, December 7, we will enjoy the final ceremony at the Museum "Old village" Kumrovec.

The common theme of the program is the horse, which, through workshops and a museum-educational publication, each of our museums deals with in a different way, with a corresponding sub-theme. Thus, the participants of the workshops in the Veliki Tabor Castle will learn more about the use of horses for transport, with a special emphasis on carriages, in the Antun Augustinčić Gallery they will deal with horses in art, while in the Krapina Neanderthal Museum they will learn about the past and evolution of horses. The Museum of Peasants' Revolts will tell the story of military horses and knights, and the Museum "Old village" Kumrovec will present horses as toys.

How to participate in the program?

After you have chosen which museum you will visit first and participate in its workshop, you will announce your arrival by e-mail (the e-mail addresses of all MHZ units are available on the web). Upon arrival, you will pay 6 euros at the entrance,* or the price of one workshop, which per child/participant includes:

• wooden horse
• work at the workshop (depending on the theme of the individual museum – painting, filling, dressing the horse)**
• museum-educational publication of the program with stickers
• the invitation to the final ceremony, which the child signs, collects stamps at each of the workshops he visits, and uses it at the final ceremony to draw the main prize
• the possibility of FREE participation in workshops in all other museums (so in total it is possible to participate in five different workshops for the price of one)
• participation in the closing ceremony on December 7, 2024 and the draw for the main prize provided by the Center Rhythm with a horse from Stubičke Toplice.

* Tickets for visiting the museum's permanent exhibitions will be charged separately.

** For all children and families who have already participated in the program in previous years, each of the museums has prepared new, additional contents, so they are certainly welcome to join us now!

The final ceremony of the program will be held on December 7 in the Museum "Staro selo" Kumrovec starting at 11 am. All children will have the opportunity to participate in any of the five workshops and ride in the carriage. Around 12:30, Saint Nicholas and Krampus are expected to arrive, gifts will be distributed to the children and we will light the second Advent candle. At 1 p.m., we will draw the main prize and distribute additional prizes to children who attended a total of four or five workshops.

• Stamps will no longer be collected at the closing ceremony, but participants will put the signed invitations into the box for drawing prizes in the museum's souvenir shop. Saint Nicholas will take that box with him and we will draw the main prize from it.

It is important to note that the workshops of the Museum Peasants' Revolts (Samci 64, Gornja Stubica), which is closed to visitors due to renovation, will be held according to the schedule in the Veliki Tabor Castle (Hum Košnički 1, Desinić).

You will be able to find all additional information about the program on its Facebook and Instagram pages, social networks and the website of MHZ, and social networks and websites of each of the organizational units of MHZ. For the promotion and exchange of information, this year we also introduced a new feature - the use of QR codes via the Qurko application, which is available for Apple and Android devices. You will find the codes on our promotional materials, but also in the museum premises, and by scanning them from the application, you will always be up to date with news related to the program.