Educational trips
Schools at the Museum
A Journey into Prehistory
The Obsidian Museum “Carlo Lugliè” is the only single-site museum facility in Europe dedicated to this extraordinary product of volcanic activity. It offers in-depth activities to visiting young men and women that include guided tours of the collection, educational workshops and visits to the archaeological area in the Obsidian Park on Mt. Arci.
For the 2025-2026 school year, different educational solutions designed by our staff experienced in archaeology and museum education are available. Excursions in the Park allow you to appreciate the natural environment and learn about the extraordinary workshops of the Neolithic period.
You can contact our liaisons to design tailor-made school field trips to the Obsidian Museum and Park in Pau.
Experimenting to know
Browse catalogs of educational activities and contact Obsidian Museum staff to schedule an organized tour for groups and families or an educational trip for school groups.
To whom they are addressed
Preschool
Experimentation and emotional involvement to bring young children closer to the complex issues of archaeology.
Elementary school
Direct experimentation for our young people visiting to discover archaeology and obsidian.
Secondary school
Interdisciplinary course on topical issues such as the relationship between community and environment and protection of historical heritage.
Educational activities Obsidian Museum “Carlo Lugliè” 2025-2026
Neolithic gestures and knowledge
the polished stone
The workshop provides an introduction to the stone-polishing technique used in the Neolithic period. Using special tools like prehistoric artisans, participants will be able to drill, smooth and decorate steatite to make their own personalized ornament, discovering, step by step, how a simple stone fragment can be transformed into a unique object.
Symbols and decorations
Neolithic art
In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the fascinating world of prehistoric art. Each participant will experience the use of stone to “carve” the decorative and symbolic motifs that adorned monuments of the Neolithic age. An engaging journey into prehistory, where creativity and art come to life through manual skills.
Reconstructing the past
The analysis of archaeological findings
The workshop is an opportunity to understand the importance of the different professionals who collaborate with the archaeologist, such as the archaeozoologist and the archaeobotanist, who together form an extraordinary team that allows us to know and understand our past.
Shapes and faces of the past
the neolithic figurines
In this workshop, participants will discover the fascinating anthropomorphic figurines produced during the Neolithic and Copper Age, with a focus on the most common types in Sardinia. Each participant will be able to try their hand at modeling clay to create their own figurine. A creative and engaging experience to approach prehistory through art.
