At the Vlčnov Farmer’s Homestead

Seasonal Program: May, June, September | designed for: Preschool Children, Primary, and Secondary School Students

program duration: 60–90 minutes

admission: 30 CZK per student (free for teachers and preschool children)

An experiential and educational program featuring a guided tour of a historic homestead with practical demonstrations. Students will explore a complete rural house and its agricultural facilities, showcasing the last typical Moravian Slovak farmhouse with a two-story storage chamber, black kitchen, and thatched roof. This type of building was still common in Moravian Slovakia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The homestead provides a valuable glimpse into the now-vanished lifestyle of rural inhabitants, highlighting both everyday and festive activities associated with agricultural operations.

What students will experience: a fully furnished room (main living area) displaying traditional folk clothing and accessories; the entry hall, storage chamber, and black kitchen; adjacent agricultural structures such as stables, sheds, and a barn, featuring displays of small farming tools, agricultural machinery, blacksmithing tools, harnesses, and objects related to livestock and plowing; a small exhibit on beekeeping in the courtyard shelter.

Students can actively participate in traditional household and farming tasks, including: hand-braiding straw ropes; sharpening scythes on a whetstone; threshing grain by hand using flails; weaving a brushwood fence; hand-churning butter; stacking hay with wooden pitchforks; and other unique and engaging skills. Through these hands-on activities, students will learn about daily life in the household between 1850 and 1940, as well as the seasonal work and sustenance practices of that time.

The program is held at the Vlčnov Heritage Homestead Museum.

Additional Details:

• In case of bad weather, the program can be rescheduled or canceled by prior arrangement.

• Lunch reservations for the group can be made in advance at a local restaurant in Vlčnov.

• After the program, additional activities and attractions in the surrounding area, outside the museum, can be recommended or arranged for further engagement.