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To the museum's educational offer has been added interesting history workshops inspired by the history of Polish schoolgirls at The School of Younger Female Volunteers - an unusual institution operating at the so-called Anders Army from 1942 to 1948. We entitled them: ‘Forced truancy. What is school for?’, signalling that the main theme of these workshops is the idea of the institution of school and its various social functions.

During the workshop, children from 4th to 8th grade will work on an absorbing task that reveals the universal significance of school. At the same time they will receive knowledge of history and, interestingly enough, geography, as they travel with their heroines from Siberia, through Iran and Palestine, to England. Each stopover on this odyssey is a different culture, a different climate and landscape and a different leading role for the school, and at the finish line: a good starting point for learning about it today.

Until the end of April this year, the workshops are combined with a visit to the exhibition ‘There where we are standing, the Sun shines. The School of Younger Female Volunteers (1942–1948)’, prepared by the Pan Tadeusz Museum, so the workshops take place in the Museum's building at 3 Minorytów Street in Opole - for a single session the cost is PLN 7 per person. Later, from May this year, the workshops will be run without a visit to the exhibition, so they can be held both off and on the premises.

You can make a booking by contacting us email by email or on 77 434 34 75, 573 785 901.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!