Bronze Age

Until mid-January, you can still make Pfahlbau jewelry in the workshop and explore the night sky in the children's gallery. A museum tour especially for families will take place on January 9, 2022.

The toilet - a topic that everyone knows, but about which one usually puts on the shameful cover of silence. PD Dr. Urs Leuzinger, Thurgau Archeology Office, will present a fascinating cultural history of the “quiet place” on this evening. An event by the Archaeological Association of Zug , guests are welcome.

Come and see our metalworker demonstrating smelting - the craft of turning rock into metal, and other skills first developed over 4000 years ago in the Bronze Age.

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Easily flammable material, oxygen and heat - these are the basic requirements for starting a fire. From  1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Patrick Geiger will  present how and with what flames have been and were kindled from the Stone Age to the present day.

Making fire - the prehistoric way. This skill was vital for our ancestors. There are various methods of doing this, one of which requires team spirit! And how can fire be transported? Each participant produces his own candle and can symbolically carry the fire on.

Demonstration: habits of life and funerary rituals reconstructed on the basis of archaeological investigations conducted in villages and necropolis.

Demonstration: Humans and animals have always consumed fruit, but since the Bronze Age the relationship with this food has changed. From botany to the table, a story on the role of fruit over time.

Demonstration: Experiments in casting and working with weapons, tools and ornaments.