Educational workshops
Mediaeval archery
A presenter wearing a knight's costume first demonstrates the handling of a bow and arrow and shooting a target. After the training, a competition involving all the participants is organised. The winner is declared and presented with a written recognition.
Target audience: upper primary school pupils, high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: March through October
With a sword in hand
In the educational-tactile workshop ‘’With a sword in hand’’, first you will learn everything about chivalry, weapons and mediaeval warfare, and then you will get to feel the weight of real swords, daggers, shields and maces in your own hands! In an interesting lecture, you will learn who and how one could become a knight and why the sword was a symbol of chivalry. For the end, a competitive memory game is planned!
Target audience: primary and high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through October
Let’s finger weave
In the workshop, you will use your perfect tool - your fingers! You will use them to weave a necklace, bracelet, belt or a decoration! You will learn how to craft small artistic objects from twine, wool and similar materials that you can decorate your house with.
Target audience: upper primary school pupils, high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through October
Puppet making using natural materials
Children make their own dolls using natural materials - jute, tow and twine.
Target audience: lower primary school pupils
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Little school of medicinal herbs
Through this educational workshop you will learn how plants have been used as medicine and clothing since ancient times, who the greatest guardians of mediaeval medicine are, how to pick and dry the most popular and well-known plants, and which poisonous plants to avoid. Along with a work reminder sheet, you will also receive a couple of humorous mediaeval recipes!
Target audience: upper primary school pupils, high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Long Live the Spoon!
We’ll take a short trip through time with everyone's dear and known "lady spoon"! We will learn all the transformations she went through over time in terms of shape and material. In the competition with the knife and fork, the spoon has been and still remains the queen of every meal and table. We will honour her by making our own spoons out of clay!
Target audience: all ages
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Using clay to make stories
Children are introduced to baked clay objects that were used in everyday life in Veliki Tabor from the 15th to the 18th century. This interactive workshop will allow children to try their hand at making a clay ceramic stove tile with motifs of Melusine, a unicorn, or a rosette.
Target audience: lower primary school pupils
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Let us build Veliki Tabor together
In this workshop, a PP presentation is used to introduce children to the importance of Veliki Tabor as a unique late mediaeval fortification and zero-category monument, and to its main parts. In the second, interactive part of the workshop, children use wood elements to construct Veliki Tabor or a castle of their own imagination.
Target audience: lower primary school pupils
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Melusine puzzle
Melusine - a fairy whose figure is found on one of the tile stoves in Veliki Tabor, is the protagonist of an interesting legend that is the introduction to this workshop. A scene from the story served as a template for a game - a puzzle. The participants of the workshop, divided into several teams, put together the puzzle, competing in the speed of completing the entire picture.
Target audience: primary and high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Veronika memory
The oral tradition about Veronika of Desinić contains about twenty basic elements; historical figures, objects and events, around which different versions of the story are built. The participants of the ‘’Veronika memory’’ workshop will first, with the help of a visual presentation, get to know the legend, i.e. the oral tradition and its key elements. Then they will check what they learned in a game with memory cards by combining terms with associated icons.
Target audience: all ages
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
In search of the mysterious object
Three teams of a maximum of four members participate in the search. The goal is to find the mysterious object hidden in Veliki Tabor. The instructions in envelopes, connected with the history and curiosities of the castle, guide the team around the premises, from one point to another. The team that finishes the task first and discovers "their" mysterious object is the winner and receives a symbolic prize!
Target audience: groups of up to 12
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Puppet show - The Legend of Veronika of Desinić
IOCULATORI, a mediaeval travelling puppet theatre, performs a puppet show about intrigues in the court of the Count of Celje, whose son Fridrik falls in love with beautiful Veronika. See the show and find out how their story ended.
Target audience: all ages
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Puppet show - Our pride - Veronika of Desinić!
Veliki Tabor’s most famous legend about the forbidden love between Veronika of Desinić and Fridrik of Celje, through many witty twists and turns, gets a happy ending after all. And a sequel! You can both hear and see the stories of how Veronika and Fridrik fought for their love despite the prohibitions and how Veronika was declared a sorceress for defending our castle from the Turks!
Target audience: primary school pupils (grades 3 to 8), high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Puppet show - The Fairy Melusine
The legend of the fairy Melusine and her love for the knight Raymond was for a long time one of the more popular stories of the late Middle Ages. Since one of the tile stoves in Veliki Tabor is decorated with her image, she has always been a source of inspiration for us. In our play, you will find out whether the love between a magical being and an ordinary mortal is possible, and what the consequences of breaking a promise are.
Target audience: primary and high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December
Puppet show - Dragon’s Treasure
In a humorous and educational play, you will find out how the famous knight Juraj rescued the kidnapped princess from the dragon's nest and why he very quickly regretted his act of heroism. Along with Jura, you will meet a spoiled princess, a dragon in love and one big mess!
Target audience: primary and high school pupils, adults
Location: Veliki Tabor Castle
Period: January through December