Mill museum with laboratories and permanent naturalistic didactic area

PROGRAM

 

MORNING:

Guided tour of the Mill Museum still functioning thanks to the energy of water dating back to 1400 and the adjoining housing structure, a true ethnographic museum.

Guided tour of some sections of the Vaso Rè, an extraordinary work of medieval hydraulic engineering, a source of energy for the various factories in the town of Bienno.

Grain grinding: During the laboratory activity, the children will be stimulated to observe the different types of cereals for flour, object of cultivation, yesterday and today, in the harsh soils of Valle Camonica, to try to grasp their similarities and differences.
Using the five senses, they will then manipulate the different grains and, through the teaching of doing, they will be able to experiment their grinding with the use of millstones and stone grinders and thus obtain different flours both in color, grain and flavor.

 

LUNCH:

12.30 with the possibility of indoor lunch

 

AFTERNOON:

Guided tour of the permanent naturalistic didactic area to discover the animal and plant species typical of the territory and not.

 

RATES AND COSTS:

Recommended for nursery and primary schools;

Duration: h. 5.00;

info: 3450484986

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