Educational programs for children at the Museum Mineralogia Munich: Exploring meteorites, volcanoes and the rock cycle

The Museum Mineralogia München offers a varied and exciting educational program for children designed to arouse their curiosity about earth sciences and planetary phenomena. Building on the natural fascination that many children feel for space, meteorites and the moon, our interactive tours and workshops encourage hands-on learning and discovery.

The main themes of the program include (1) meteorites - rocks from outer space - where children learn about and explore different types such as stony, iron and stony-iron meteorites.

Children can also learn about (2) the dynamic rock cycle, how rocks are formed and transformed by volcanic activity, erosion and tectonic processes. Another popular museum program deals with (3) pebbles from the Isar and encourages children to classify different types of rock, consider where they originated and how they are composed.

A special highlight is the (4) gemstone workshop for young people, where they learn what gemstones there are, how they are composed, what makes real and fake gemstones, how and where they are mined and much more.

With these different interactive and age-appropriate activities, the Museum Mineralogia aims to spark an age-appropriate interest in earth sciences and planetary exploration and provide young visitors with a solid foundation for STEM observation, classification and scientific thinking.